Locarno Film Festival launches sustainability prize and Green Film Fund

The Locarno Film Festival is to launch a sustainability initiative, the Locarno Green Project, at this year’s 75th edition.

The festival will offer a new prize, the Pardo Verde WWF, launched in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund, to the film in competition that best reflects an ecological issue.

Meanwhile, a Green Film Fund, which supports films tackling environmental issues, is slated for launch in 2023. Every year, the Fund will select film projects for backing that combine artistic quality with a director’s vision to foster environmental awareness and impact society.

Raphaël Brunschwig, managing director of the Locarno Film Festival said: ”A cultural event like Locarno can act to generate, foster and disseminate a new perspective by incentising films and filmmakers that respect the ecosystem and tell new stories capable of raising public awareness.”

The Locarno Film Festival runs from August 3-13 in Switzerland. 

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