ENVIROFILM 2012 in as many as seven Slovak cities

Environmental hazards are the leitmotif of the International Environmental Film Festival ENVIROFILM, which will be held for the 18th time already from 14th to 19th May 2012 in seven Slovak cities. Poltár and Skalica join this year officially the festival cities Banska Bystrica, Zvolen, Banská Štiavnica, Kremnica and  Krupina. The organiser of the festival is the Slovak Environmental Agency, which is one of the organisations of the Ministry of the Environment, and the non-profit organisation Envirofilm. n.o.

The organisers of the festival has been receiving these days film entries from filmmakers from all over the world. Deadline for film entries is 15th February. Subsequently, on 27th to 29th February the pre-selection committee will meet, which will select films for the main competition at ENVIROFILM 2012.

Selected competing films will be screened during the festival week traditionally in all festival cities. The programme will also include non-competing film projection and film screenings for schools. Also the accompanying programme of the festival will be interesting and varied. The theme of the contest of children’s artistic creativity “Green World”, which accompanies the festival for the seventeenth year already, is “My footprint on Planet Earth”. Competing works for the Green World should be submitted no later than on 16th March 2012.

The International Environmental Film Festival ENVIROFILM was established in 1995 and is held annually in May. The centre of festival events is Banská Bystrica. Last year, 156 films from 33 countries worldwide competed in the festival; 33 films were submitted by Slovak authors. During the seventeen years of the festival filmmakers from around the world sent more than 1,800 films. The Ministry of the Environment is the promulgator and the Slovak Environmental Agency and the non-profit organisation Envirofilm n.o. are the organisers of the festival.

A shot of the Australian film Penguin Island (directed by Simon Target), which won the Grand Prix at Envirofilm 2011.