The International Environmental Film Festival [FINCA] returns with its 5th online edition focusing on the climate crisis under the theme "Advocating for a new climate"
The Instituto Multimedia DerHumALC (IMD) is pleased to announce the new dates of the 5th International Environmental Film Festival [FINCA], which will take place from June 17 to 24, 2020 in a completely online edition with the focus on the climate crisis, under the slogan "Advocating for a new climate". Due to the extraordinary circumstances arising from the public health emergency caused by COVID-19 at a global level, the 5th FINCA 2020 will be held for the first time completely online, and will have a web platform where the films, the Special Activities (table/discussion and seminars) can be consulted and viewed, and where it will also be possible to enjoy the exchange via streaming with national and international directors and filmmakers. In times when new technologies are emerging, the festival team saw the opportunity to amplify the message of a cinema for social transformation. Therefore, the new dates of the festival are announced: June 17-24, 2020.
*** In 2019, the United Nations Environment Programme stated that unless global greenhouse gas emissions fall by 7.6% each year between 2020 and 2030, the world will not achieve the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels set by the Paris Agreement.
In this key year for climate action, FINCA takes the climate crisis, expressed in the new image, as its central focus. It is undeniable that the change in the ecosystem experienced by our planet has causes related to human activity. This theme calls us to take urgent action: that is why our motto is #AdvocatingForANewClimate. *** In this sense, cinema has the possibility of representing and disseminating transforming stories that allow us to reflect on the causes and possible solutions to this emergency from the collective and transversal action of citizens. +70 outstanding audiovisual works worldwide in the last two years +70 free online screenings on our platform +Virtual special activities with national and international guests +20,000 direct beneficiaries +48,000 indirect beneficiaries The prizes to be awarded in the official competition are divided into the following categories: International Feature Film Competition, Short and Medium-length Film Competition, Latin American Documentary Competition. FINCA offers a wide variety of films to the public through its web platform, openly and free of charge. 5° FINCA will be able to offer special screenings through its web platform, with a subsequent talk with directors. Special Activities The Festival deepens the main thematic axis of each edition through a variety of workshops, pedagogical and playful material for children and tables/debates with national and international guests that accompany the central programming, with the aim of diversifying and multiplying the scope of the Festival. The special activities will be broadcasted via streaming on our web platform with easy access and the possibility of interaction and virtual exchange. Schools Section Cinema made by and for young people. This section aims to stimulate dialogue and critical reflection among students on socio-environmental issues from a human rights approach. The Section's programme includes a selection of international short films and around 40 audiovisual works made entirely by students from different schools in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, with free access to view them online and/or by download. This will allow teachers and community leaders to promote debates on the central themes of this edition together with their students, thus fostering the active role of our audience and citizens.
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About IMD The International Environmental Film Festival is organized by the Multimedia Institute DerHumALC - Human Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean (IMD), a non-profit association based in the city of Buenos Aires, founded with the aim of promoting human rights from an integral perspective through the audiovisual arts. Since 1997, IMD has also held the biennial International Human Rights Film Festival (FICDH), the first festival dedicated to the subject in Latin America, which now has eighteen editions and its activities have been declared of Cultural Interest by the Buenos Aires City Legislature.
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