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CinemAmbiente – Environmental Film Festival

Since 1998 CinemAmbiente – Environmental Film Festival has presented a choice selection of environmental films from the previous year’s titles to promote their wider distribution and the growth of this media sector. CinemAmbiente has extended its scope beyond the week-long annual Festival to include a vast program of activities conducted the year round.

Besides the Festival’s national and international competition categories, Panorama, retrospectives, and the ever-popular Ecokids section targeting school audiences, the Festival program features panel debates with experts, meet-the-authors events, exhibitions, book presentations, theater and concert performances, all centered on an environmental topic.

Founded and directed by Gaetano Capizzi, and organized since 2006 by the National Museum of Cinema - the Adriana Prolo Foundation, the Festival coordinates the Environmental Film Festival Network (EFFN), an international association of environmental film festival organizers.

The Festival has attracted more and more attention in recent years with its major retrospectives (Flaherty, Ivens, De Seta among others) and high-profile guests (Arundhati Roy, Folco Quilici, Leo Hickman, Julia “Butterfly” Hill, Luca Mercalli, Nikita Mikhalkov, Serge Latouche, Fernando Solanas, Silvio Soldini, Julien Temple, Lina Wertmüller). Special guest at the 2008 Festival was Hollywood celebrity and environmental activist Daryl Hannah.

CinemAmbiente Tour

Now Italy’s most important event for film and environmental awareness raising, CinemAmbiente has gone from strength to strength as a pioneer of green festivals. Outside the Festival week, environmental education days are held in Turin and other cities. Each year, many of the films presented at the Festival are screened at venues around the country as part of the CinemAmbiente Tour project.

Since 2007, CinemAmbiente has collaborated with the Regional Museum of Natural Sciences, Turin, curating film programs in connection with exhibitions on show at the Museum: for example, films about climate change during the “Changing Times” exhibition and during the “Seeing is Knowing” initiative with films for schoolchildren.

CinemAmbiente TV

An innovative step in promoting environmental education is the web-based CinemAmbiente TV Films for Environmental Education project in which teachers can view by streaming films from the Festival archives for high-quality projection at school and use the graded material in their lessons.

CinemAmbiente – more than just a festival.