Focus for Future - Environmental Short Film Competition
Into Film? Passionate about the Environment? We challenge you to Focus for Future!
Make a short film (under 5 minutes) about our Environment or highlighting a specific environmental issue you are passionate about. Get creative and send us your film by 5pm, Tuesday 27th August 2024.
The competition is open to all, and you are encouraged to be as creative as you like, using any combination of live-action video, animation, graphics or slides to carry your environmental message.
There will be an Awards Ceremony & Film Screening in September 2024 at Te Ara Atea. Top films will be awarded prizes in multiple categories.
Instructions
1. Download the instructions and entry forms lincolnenvirotown.org.nz... – This includes everything you need to get started on your film.
2. Create your film (5 minutes or less) highlighting an environmental issue. Get creative!
3. Submit your completed film and entry forms by 5pm, Tuesday August 27th.
Focus for Future and inspire environmental action through the power of film!
Film Competition Entry Forms and Instructions.pdf Download View
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
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