TOGETHER WE ARE CHANGING THE WORLD - JOIN US TODAY
FROME INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE FILM FESTIVAL (Community Interest Company)
Connecting, Sharing, Supporting and Inspiring Positive Change through Film
Welcome
James Godman - CEO, Creator & Director of The Frome International Climate Film Festival CIC welcomes you to the world's first and only dedicated free INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE FILM FESTIVAL
JOIN THE GLOBAL FILM FAMILY AS TOGETHER WE ARE CHANGING AND CONNECTING THE WORLD THROUGH FILM.
Frome International Climate Film Festival CIC - Overview
Our Mission: To Change and to Connect 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.
- Inclusive
- No Barriers
- Free
- Open
- Family Orientated
- Respectful
- Supportive
- Fun
- Caring and Safe.
2025 Green Themes & Awards
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
- To Raise Awareness of the Climate and Environment
- To Help Change to a Greener Lifestyle
- To Help People to Reconnect with the Environment.
AWARDS
1. All films accepted into the festival will receive the festival laurels
2. Category Award winners will each receive winners laurels and a prestigious international Climate Award, a carved wooden sculpture by local sculpture, Anthony Rogers (see link below) and the runners up will receive a tree to plant in the UK.
3. 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 around the world
Link: Gallery 1 | anthonyrogers1 (sculptur3.wixsite.com)
TOGETHER WE ARE CHANGING THE WORLD
To submit via FilmFreeway, click the logo. OPENS 1st JANUARY 2025 and CLOSES on 1st MARCH 2025,just two months to submit your films.
NOTE: Local film makers can also submit via the contact page on this website, any queries please email the Festival Team via the contact page below.
The Categories and How to Enter plus the Format for 2025
ENTRIES are FREE, but an admin change of £10 UK pounds would be most welcome if you can afford it, this would really help the festival which is self-funded.
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
- Best Under 16 yrs
- Best Animation
- Best Student Film (Age 16-25)
- Best Short Film (Under 5 minutes)
- Best Social Media Film (Under 1min)
- Best Female Director
- Best Male Director
- Best LGBTQ Director
- Best Educational (Pathway) Film
- Best First Time Filmmaker
- Best Professional
- Most Inspirational
- Best Music Video (See Note)
- NetZero Award (lowest carbon footprint)
- Best Film by Somerset Film Director
Note: Winner of the Best Music Video Award will also, if they are from Somerset, have a day in a Professional Recording Studio in Frome.
How to support and to get involved
Supporting Film, Art, Music and Green Groups
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.
Global Film Family
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
Donations
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
OUTREACH : Climate Film Festival Sponsors in Mexico
Network of Sustainable Agricultural Alternatives of Jalisco (RASA)
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.
The Climates Sponsor Young Filmmakers in Mexico
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.
Young, Women and RASA
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.
Thank you Thanya
Thanya Ponce Nava is an inspiring audio visual creator, ethnographic researcher and socio-environmental documentarian. She Co-Founded the Sintropia Audio visual 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.