The SunChild 11th International Environmental Festival will take place from the 4th to the 8th of November 2022, screening around 30 environmental films from different countries. With the 11th SunChild IEF, we are addressing the global challenge of our Earth – Climate Change. While the global environmental community continues to raise awareness and take preventive and adaptation measures, for the general population, the scope is just too large to grasp, and many of the most noticeable impacts are still too far removed from our daily lives. We encourage you all to join us in advocating for climate change awareness by focusing on local and regional impacts. The 11th SunChild IEF will highlight the best films about the impact of Climate Change in different parts of Earth. For many, climate change is either overwhelmingly challenging or abstract enough that it is easy to ignore. We are here to become your guide to understand its impacts, to empower you to make a step forward towards the changes in your life, to share the stories from all around the world, and show that you are not alone!
Nomination Category: Feature-length Films About Climate Change
Film Name: Be Water - Andes to Amazonia
Director: Julia Blagny
Country: France, Bolivia
Runtime: 52 minutes
Nomination Category: Feature-length Films About Climate Change
Film Name: Into the Ice
Director: Lars Henrik Ostenfeld
Country: Denmark, Germany
Runtime: 85 minutes
Nomination Category: Feature-length Films About Climate Change
Film Name: Livestock or Desert
Director: Francisco Vaquero Robustillo
Country: Spain
Runtime: 84 minutes
Nomination Category: Feature-length Films About Climate Change
Film Name: Mamody, the Last Baobab Digger
Director: Cyrille Cornu
Country: France
Runtime: 47 minutes
Jury President
The handmade awards for the winners of the SunChild 7th International Environmental Festival’s 3 competition categories – “Wildlife”, “Environmental Issue” and “Children and Youth” – are made of recycled metals.
These unique art works are designed and created by a distinguished artist, founder of Baghdasar Studio Sargis Baghdasaryan.
Best Feature-length Film about Climate Change: This award will go to the best feature-length films about human impacts on climate change, responsibilities, and ways of responding, public policies, challenges humanity faces due to climate change, and other aspects of climate change.
Monetary Prize: 3000 USD
Short Film about Climate Change: This award will go to the best short films about human impacts on climate change, responsibilities, and ways of responding, public policies, challenges humanity faces due to climate change, and other aspects of climate change.
Monetary Prize: 2000 USD
Best Film for Youth and Children: The award will go to the best film created for/by youth and/or children, covering the most vital environmental issues of the time.
Monetary Prize: 500 USD
Named after conservationist John Burton, this award will spotlight films about nature conservation with a strong directorial vision. All films submitted to the Festival will be eligible for this award and will be selected by an international jury.
With this award, SunChild IEF wants to honor the memory of John Burton, who died in May 2022. The award will be granted to the best conservation films starting from the 12th edition of the Festival.
John Burton was a revolutionary, visionary, and inspirational conservationist whose creative thinking saved over 300,000 hectares of threatened habitat from damaging development. He challenged the usual approaches to preserving wild creatures and their habitats. Sir David Attenborough described him as “a truly wonderful man, more altruistic, more energetic, braver and more original than almost anyone I have known.”
