CLIMATE FILM FESTIVAL 2024 - 19TH MAY IN FROME, TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE
FROME INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE FILM FESTIVAL is a Community Interest Company
Connecting, Sharing, Supporting and Inspiring Positive Change through Film
CLIMATE FILM FESTIVAL 2024 - 19TH MAY IN FROME, TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE
Connecting, Sharing, Supporting and Inspiring Positive Change through Film
James Godman - Creator and Director of The Frome International Climate Film Festival CIC welcomes you to the world's first and only dedicated free film festival to promote and to support positive Climate and Environmental films.
'We come together to connect, share, support and to inspire positive green change. We are changing the world together. We are here for you wherever your are'
'NEW' : CLIMATE FILM FESTIVAL FRINGE IS KICKING OFF ON APRIL 5TH AT THE GOOD HEART CAFE IN FROME - PLEASE BOOK TICKETS AND COME ALONG
TIME - 7-9pm : A film and a talk/workshop/discussion/chat.
Connect, Share, Support and be Inspired - Together we are Changing The World
FRINGE EVENT PROGRAMME
MAIN FESTIVAL : THE FROME INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE FILM FESTIVAL 19TH MAY
The inspiring Frome International Climate Film Festival will be held this year on the 19th May in the Cheese and Grain, in Frome, Somerset, UK starting at 09:00 and running through to 23:30. The day is all FREE but donations are welcome.
The day starts with children, family and community activities including:
- Positive and Inspiring Climate Films from Around the World
- Children’s Eco Art Activities
- Green Community Group Networking
- Community Choir
- Green Technology Zone
- Eco Fashion Zone
- Indian Dance
- Eco Yoga and Eco Chill Zone
- Riverside Walk and Eco Poetry
The day concludes with the fantastic - Frome International Climate Film Festival Awards and the Post Awards Party with local award winning bands
Free for all so come and connect, share, support and be inspired and be part of the GLOBAL FILM FAMILY
(Donations can be made via our website)
In addition, there will be a screening of local films and a gathering of local Climate, Nature, Environment groups on the 18th May upstairs in the Cheese and Grain (Room1 and 3) in Frome. If you would like to be part of the 18th or 19th May climate community celebrations, to volunteer, to sponsor, to be part of the GLOBAL FILM FAMILY for change in anyway then please contact the Festival Team via the website
This year we will hold a Film Fringe, showing 2024 festival films at the Good Heart Café in Frome during April and May at 7pm on a Friday. The fringe this year included the UK PREMIERE of 'Blue Carbon', told through the eyes of Grammy nominated Music Producer, DJ and Marine Toxicologist Jayda Guy and by BAFTA Award Winning Director Nicolas Brown this took place Rook Lane Chapel as part of the Kindness Festival on the 21st March 2024.
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
Our Mission
•To Raise Climate Awareness in our everyday lives
•To Provide pathways to help change
•To Connect, share, support and inspire people to change
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
The winner of the 2023 music competition 'Scott O'Hara' (see scottoharamusic.com for more info) will be going into the professional Bert Jansch recording studio in Frome with one of the runners up (Sara Vian and Pete Vincent - Judas Goat & the Bellwether) on the 25th February. We have 12 hours booked a long day but it should be a life changing experience for the artists. Interview, pictures and the track to follow
MISSION
1. TO MAKE THE NEED TO CHANGE VISIBLE
Objectives
- To raise climate awareness in our everyday lives in a positive way
- To provide pathways to help change and to provide positive steps
- To connect, share, support and inspire positive change through film* (*Art, Music and wider Media also)
2. TO CREATE A GLOBAL FILM FAMILY FOR CHANGE
- Support Film Makers and their work
- To share knowledge and best practice
3. MAKE POSITIVE AND INSPIRING FILMS AND TO INSPIRE OTHERS TO MAKE FILMS (TO HAVE OUR OWN FILM STUDIOS)
4. PROVIDE HELP TO OTHERS ON HOW TO INCLUDE GREEN SUSTAINABILITY IN FILM AND MEDIA (STORYTELLING)
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. 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
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. You can only enter on category.
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.
FILMS to be transferred to festival organisers by WeTransfer, once accepted into the festival (with a short reel for Social Media) as they need to be downloaded by the festival organisers for screening. All films accepted into the festival must allow the festival to upload the films to our YouTube channel to share freely to inspire others or must be allowed to be screened at agreed events free screening events, again to share, connect and to inspire others. This is part of our outreach programme.
WHAT TO DO FIRST:
Send a message to the organisers via Submissions button at the top of this webpage.
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.
Come and join us as we help to connect, share, support and inspire each other to grow a free Global Film Family for change to promote and to inspire green change for us and our children.
Sweden - Folke
Documentaries For A Transition Into A More Beautiful World (campfire-stories.org)
Mexico - Thanya
Documental Custodios del Territorio (2017) English sub - YouTube
Xepa 2017 (documentário, curta-metragem) - YouTube
You could be next ......
- Film for Frome Fridge
- Kindness Festival
- Frome Festival
- Green Week
- Children's Festival
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.
The Climates@Christmas music celebration will be held in Frome in December 2024 as music is integral to the Frome International Climate Film Festival, music inspires and connects people from across the world .... we are looking to capture and to promote
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The Climates@Christmas music celebration will be held in Frome in December 2024. 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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