Green Vision

About

The “Green Vision” in St. Petersburg aims at

• raising environmental awareness with the help of visual media;
• highlighting the role of environmental films and TV programmes in raising environmental awareness;
• informing film users (television studios, NGOs, educational institutions, movie theatres, public administrations) on the range of available environmental films on current issues;
• broadening the knowledge of the local media (multipliers) on environmental topics of actual importance to the eastern Baltic Sea region and on approaches towards sustainable development;
• leading to an exchange of knowledge and experience between western and eastern European environmental film makers;
• increasing the demand for high quality environmental films produced environmental films and television programmes;
• stimulating high quality environmental film productions and television programmes
• enhancing the co-operation of environmental experts and film makers as multipliers of knowledge,
• enhancing the co-operation of cultural institutes of EU member states and with the city administration and non-governmental organisations,
• enhancing the co-operation of EU member states and eastern Baltic Sea states in the field of environmental protection and raising environmental awareness.

The films chosen for competition programme are addressing a broad audience as well as decision makers, and examine environmental issues comprehensively, from natural science, political, cultural, and social perspectives. The topics are treated both from a local and a global perspective.In numerous lively discussions environmental experts and film-makers point out differences and similarities of environmental problems and solutions as pictured in eastern and western productions.

Film-makers and experts from eastern and western countries meet, most of them for the first time, and new contacts develop which could be of help for future work.

Awards

• The Grand Prix
• The best film for children and youth
• For an original approach to reflecting environmental problems
• For courage in the creation of environmental films
• For beauty and humanism
• For the visual concept of the film
• For an optimistic vision of the future
• The best film about water
• For a comprehensive and in-depth disclosure of the topic
• Special nominations.

The prizes of the Festival are memorable souvenirs made in the technique of laser graphics, with themes and logos of the Festival. 

Rules

• International competition: full-length documentary films and popular science films (not longer than 90 minutes), short documentaries, feature and animated films (not longer than 30 minutes), educational films
• Films produced after January 1, 2016
• English subtitles are required if the original language of the movie is not English or Russian.

To apply:

• send a DVD-copy of the film or a link to the video on the cloud storage
• Send the filled-in application form
• A brief annotation in Russian or English (not more than 100 words)
• At least two illustrations for the catalogue on electronic media (format JPEG, PNG, TIFF)
• Dialogue lists in Russian or English (on electronic media, or in printed form).

Screening format: DVD. 

Premiere Requirements

No premiere requirement

Jury and Organizers

Organizer: the Committee for Nature Use, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety
of the Government of St. Petersburg.