Green Cross Italy awarded two films with the special prize for the Best International Documentary dedicated to the environment at the 13th annual CinemAmbiente Environmental Film Festival in Turin on World Environment Day. Among the 12 films up for the award, the films Cities on Speed – Bogotá Change and The End of the Line were selected for best illustrating the environmental and social sustainability challenge facing governments around the world.
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“We have the privilege but also the difficult task of evaluating and promoting the documentaries that best represent the topics of sustainable development and more generally, man’s relationship with the environment,” said Green Cross Italy President Elio Pacilio. “Since the movie industry today is used as a catalyst to transmit messages, it is important to give the greatest support possible to events like CinemAmbiente.”
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The second award was given to The End of the Line, which tells the dramatic story of the devastating effects of over fishing on the ecosystem of seas and oceans. “The documentary succeeds in comparing the beauty of images of marine biodiversity, usually seen in a more pleasant context, to the seriousness of exhaustion of fish stocks,” said the jury. “It is a problem that is becoming the emblem of the ecological crisis on the planet, accurately representing on screen the global clash between nature, following the fixed rules, bad politics and obeying the rules of particular interests.”