TOGETHER WE ARE CHANGING THE WORLD - JOIN US TODAY
FROME INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE FILM FESTIVAL - A Community Interest Company
Connecting, Sharing, Supporting and Inspiring Positive Change through Film
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TOGETHER WE ARE CHANGING THE WORLD - JOIN US TODAY
Connecting, Sharing, Supporting and Inspiring Positive Change through Film
James Godman - CEO, Creator & Director of The Frome International Climate Film Festival CIC welcomes you to the world's first and only dedicated free film festival to connect, share, support and to inspire positive change through Climate and Environmental films.
Hear from passionate and inspiring award winning Film Directors from around the world. More to follow......
You may see a small part of your film in one of the short Award Category Reels used before the big announcement of the winner and runner-up. Several now available to view...........
FYI the slide deck used for the Awards Ceremony
The Festival Film Programme ran at the 2024 event held on the 18th and 19th May
Our Mission: To Change the World through Positive Climate and Environmental Films and to Make them Visible
OBJECTIVES
1. TO MAKE THE NEED TO CHANGE VISIBLE THROUGH POSITIVE, INSPIRING AND EDUCATIONAL FILMS
2. TO CREATE A GLOBAL FILM FAMILY AND PLATFORM TO SUPPORT GREEN FILM DIRECTORS AND THE GREEN COMMUNITY
3. TO MAKE POSITIVE AND INSPIRING FILMS AND TO TRAIN THE NEXT GENERATIONS OF GREEN FILMMAKERS
4. TO SET UP DEDICATED CLIMATE FILM COLLABORATIONS & STUDIOS LOCALLY & GLOBALLY TO MAKE ‘CLIMATE ORIGINAL’ FILMS
5. TO PROVIDE HELP TO STORYTELLERS AND SCRIPTWRITERS ON HOW TO INCLUDE POSITIVE GREEN STORYTELLING WITHIN FILMS AND THE MEDIA
OUR VALUES
Our values create a safe and inclusive space for connecting, sharing, supporting and inspiring green change. We aim to help people to find themselves and to support them on their pathway.
FILMS CAN OF ANY LENGTH AND ANY TOPIC but they must have a green theme, climate and the environment and BE POSITIVE to INSPIRE CHANGE. Let's see seen your passion and hear your voice.
YOU CALL THE SHOTS - The film can be:
An interview, a short film, a feature film, filmed poetry, art or music, comedy or technology, community project, a silent feature whatever inspires you with a GREEN message in film aligned to one of the following THEMES
AWARDS
1. All accepted into the festival will receive the festival laurels
2. Category Award winners will each receive an international climate award, a carved wooden sculpture by our resident local sculpture and a tree to plant
3. As a festival we also reward with festival laurels films which have been identified as commended and highly commended by our judges
4. You will be also be invited to join the Global Film Family to support each other as we try to accelerate green change through film
LET'S GET FILMING - LET'S CHANGE THE WORLD
ENTRIES are FREE
We want your positive films about Climate and the Environment - FORMAT for entries the same as YOUTUBE, use your phone and let's get filming. (MP4 file type and also recommends h.264 video codec and aspect ratio of 16:9) Shout if you need help.
CATEGORIES
(Please state if you are a First Time Filmmaker)
Films can also be accepted from Schools, Groups, Clubs and associations where there is a mix of age groups, but please state.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Filmmakers under the age of 16 years, your films must be submitted by a parent, guardian or through your school.
All films must also have the permission of all parties involved in the film and/or depicted in the film before the film is submitted to Frome International Climate Film Festival.
We are here to support, to create and to promote filmmaking and filmmakers, artists and musicians locally and globally who are trying to raise awareness to help people to change to a greener lifestyle. Our mission is to also provide free films for Green Groups to help to raise awareness of the work they do in communities helping them to attract more members. So please contact us, get involved and see how we can help you. Together we are stronger.
The Global Film Family are the festival supporters, volunteers and sponsors globally who are passionate about using positive and inspiring films to raise awareness and to help to promote change to a more sustainable lifestyle. If you would like to be part of the Global Film Family to volunteer, to be involved or to sponsor the festivals work then please contact the Festival Team via the contact page. Be part of the GLOBAL FILM FAMILY for change... join today
If you would like to donate or to sponsor to the Climate Film Festival to help us to deliver our mission, detailed below please click the donations button below
Sponsorship Packages
Any donation will support the Frome International Climate Film Festival (CIC) and the Film Family for change to deliver our mission to raise awareness, to develop pathways and to connect, share, support and inspire change. For further details contact the Climate Festival Team.
Sponsorship Type - Time to Change
This donation is also about your personal commitment to pause and reflect on your daily life and to think about, little steps and little changes to have a more sustainable lifestyle.
Amount £1 to £100*
Your name or organisation will be added to Time to Change donation list
Sponsorship Type - Make it Visible
This donation will help in the delivery of the annual Climate Film Festival covering equipment, live streaming (if we can raise enough funding), materials and venue costs and campaigns
Amount £101 - £1000*
Your name or organisation will be added to Make it Visible donation list, plus other benefits
Sponsorship Type - Our Future
This donation will be targeted at the development and delivery of the educational Outreach Programme, campaigns and the bursary programme for young filmmakers
Amount £1001 - £5000*
Your name or organisation will be added to Our Future donation list, plus other benefits
Sponsorship Type - Our Planet
This donation will be targeted at the development of the website, database and infrastructure required to connect the local and global Film Family to support each other, to share knowledge, experience and best practice around the world as we don't have time to all learn from the start
Amount £5001 - £20000*
Your name or organisation will be added to Our Planet donation list, plus other benefits
Note: The Frome International Climate Film Festival is a Transparent Trader (TT) (a new concept developed by the festival for openness to prevent greed/ exploitation) so wages, activities, payments, donations and any profits can be seen on request, we have no secrets, we are one family with a passion to deliver change through film.
Note: Plus further benefits mentioned please contact the Festival Team for details
Frome International Climate Film Festival awards our first international collaboration laureates to young filmmakers in Mexico.
El Limón, Jalisco, Mexico. - The twentieth Our Corn, Our Culture Meeting held on the 18th November was a great success, with the large presence of youth, women and the founding farmers of the Network of Sustainable Agricultural Alternatives of Jalisco (RASA).
There was a large presence of various groups that are influencing their territory to move towards agroecological processes. Attendance ranged between 85 and 120 people from around 25 municipalities in the state of Jalisco.
As part of the meeting's programming, one of the "star"activities was the showing of short films made by young people, around the topic of agroecology. In total, there were seven groups that for three months worked on a process of generating technical capacities to create “agrovisual” materials that were presented as part of the meeting. These short films portray agroecological themes, environmental problems, development alternatives and will be presented next year at the 2024 Climate Film Festival in England.
Youth and Women had valuable presence at the meeting providing evidence of generational change of the RASA and of youth in general involved with agroecological processes.
This makes the adults who started this feel satisfaction and hope that agroecological processes will continue to develop hand in hand with new generations.
Thanya Ponce Nava is an inspiring audiovisual creator, ethnographic researcher and socio-environmental documentarian. She Co-Founded the Sintropia Audiovisual collective in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Thanya spearheaded the La Coa Argovisual Project in Jalisco and the collaboration with the Climate Film Festival, we look forward to building our relationship in 2024.
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The Climates@Christmas music celebration will be held in Frome in December 2025. If you would like to enter then contact the organisers via the link ABOVE stating;
Name, Category, state Professional or Amateur please, Background to the Song and the message related to the Climate. If accepted into the competition you will be asked to WeTransfer your submission to the organisers to showcase in December.
The overall winner will have a sponsored day in the “Bert Jansch Professional Recording Studio” at the Cheese and Grain in Frome.
THE EVENT
What a fantastic day and evening which was wonderfully well supported. Thankyou to all involved giving up their time to support the cause and to connect, share, support and inspire others to change.
Special thanks to Alan and Julia
We had films, films and more films from 11:05 to 19:20, challenging films, fun films, inspiring films but all were thought provoking. They have all been created with love and passion and shared freely to inspire others.
The workshops with Melissa managing, were well attended through out the day, thank you to Howard, Judy, John, Robbie, Shane and James... you are all inspirational
Thankyou to the Judges and the Award Presenters on the night, Rusette, Andrew, Howard, Melissa, James, and Julia
Special thanks to Karen for driving the PC during the awards with no notice
The Musicians leading the 'Post Award Party' provided a fantastic mix of music, thank you to Sara, Artey, Amanda, Matt, Stuart and Creeping Line Ahead. Such passion and talent all in Frome and beyond.
Thank you to the George Hotel and team especially Vicki and her morning co-worker who supported me so well
Thank you to our supporters this year, Urban Gardens Bath, Everything IT Bath (Life savers with PC donation) apologies if I have missed anyone on thank you list you
THANK YOU ALL FOR ATTENDING, SAY IF WE CAN BRING THE FILMS TO YOU DURING THE YEAR TO SHARE AND TO INPSIRE MORE PEOPLE
The Festival:
Is a self-funded festival, open, inclusive and free for all to Connect, Share, Support and to Inspire Green Change.
If you would like to help and to connect then please contact us below
THE CLIPS
The clips for the awarding winning films, created by Alan once again for your support...
The Festival Animation was created by Howard Vause... simply wonderful Howard (apologies type on the ident)
Lets Get Filming for 2024 - Entries in by 1st April 2024
LETS GET VISUAL
The Frome International Climate Film Festival Showcase 2023 was held at the Little Theatre Cinema in Bath on the 20th May.....a wonderful event, thank you to all involved who made it so special. Sylvia, Mason and team you were fantastic.
This red-carpet event celebrated 15 of the 17 awarding winning festival films, accompanied by ‘Prosecco and Nibbles’ care of Bath Theatrical Costume Hire, thankyou Rusette.
The purpose was to give the Directors of the films an opportunity to see their films on the big screen, thank you Directors for attending you are inspiring.
The showcase include the festival's overall Directors Award voted for by those attending and the winner was.......'The Man Who Mends Things' by Annie Farley a first time Director and Produced by Somerset Film
Programme started at 16:00 and finished at 20:00.
We ended the screenings with another inspiring film this time by James M Levelle, Race for the Future our Showcase Film.
On the 17th June you can meet James in person and see the film at the Little Theatre Cinema in Bath followed some exciting Q&As...a must see event.
So lets Connect, Share, Support and Inspire GREEN change in the days and months ahead through film, music, media and arts
Do you have questions about our festival? Would you like to suggest a film for next year's festival? Would you like to VOLUNTEER with us or to SPONSOR the festival ?
Send us a message, and we will get back to you.
Frome, Somerset, England, United Kingdom
Creator and Director - James Godman can be reached via +44 (0)7760558106 or via fromeclimatefilmfestival@gmail.com
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