EnviroFest chooses excellent films on important subjects. These films and wrap-around activities are a timely and significant resource in the drive to educate and empower youth for change.
Need for Cultural Change
Climate change is already impacting health, livelihoods, and homes in the communities and societies of the Global South. Unlike in the North, climate issues are rarely covered in media, political debate, or public awareness; leaving the people on the frontline of climate change without access to the information necessary to adapt to, and mitigate climate change.
Our National Impact Events program responds to this pressing need by creating a unique framework of high profile events that bring evidence-based solutions into the mainstream media and cultural conversation. These include award-winning documentary festivals, impact events and education outreach both in the capital city and interior regions.
These events connect our audiences with new ideas, personal experiences and organisations across all levels of society. See Tunisian Impact Event case study.
Core Events
International Award-winning
Films and Debates
We bring international award-winning film screenings to cinemas, cultural centres, and outdoor events accompanied by guest international filmmakers. We organise post-screening panel discussions with filmmakers, industry experts, cultural leaders, elected representatives and prominent civil society groups relate the topics of the film to the local context, empowering local ownership of the issues and facilitating multi-disciplinary conversations.
Eco-Marketplaces
Immediately outside the cinema venue the Eco-marketplace is a space where audiences meet a community of interested people and organisations with local expertise in the issues raised in the films. With displays to showcase their work these organisations can channel audience enthusiasm into tangible actions. For the presenting organisations the Eco-marketplace is a major opportunity to reach new and enthusiastic audiences.
Festival Roadshow
The Roadshow consists of a scaled down festival with films, panel discussions, and a reduced Eco-marketplace delivering events in an additional 15-20 cities and towns each year, in regions rarely accessed by international cultural or development programmes. This decentralised programme has been a significant success with requests for additional events in new cities totaling 30% of all events.
Education Programme
We operate in partnership with schools, universities and summer camps to deliver age appropriate film screenings, debates, and specifically developed learning packages on issues of sustainability. In conjunction with UN agencies and diplomatic missions, Envirofest is working to provide national reach into educational establishments for a lasting legacy.
Film Competition
Our short film competitions provide a platform for young filmmakers and develop a market for films with environmental themes. Run in partnership with film schools and national documentary industry organisations the competitions build capacity within the documentary media industry that is a vital part of an accountable society and government.