ECOSCREEN

The success of Al Gore's recent An Inconvenient Truth demonstrates both the urgency of the environmental issues facing us today, as well as the potential power of film in addressing them. Filmmakers around the world are finding that they can make a difference in political debates by combining observational techniques with activist agendas and using new forms of distribution to bring the work to a wider audience. Not only are these intelligent and compelling films, their accompanying web presences also make them entryways for a larger process of discovery and action. Complementing these screenings is the ongoing and hugely successful EcoTV initiative with its winning entries screening throughout our program.

And as the first CO2 free film festival in Australia, thanks to Carbon Planet, we are also keen to explore ways that filmmakers and media content creators can practice what they preach and lower their CO2 footprint - don't miss the Planet Greencode forum.