The 4th edition of the Think Forward Film Festival, an event organized by the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) will be held on 12th and 13th December 2014 at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, in Venice. The date is not a case: the festival takes place in conjunction with the conclusion of the COP 20 in Lima, the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

In particular, on the occasion of Expo 2015, the message that the Festival wants to launch is an invitation to make responsible choices about what we eat, drink and, in the broadest sense, consume, while explaining how our consumption impact your ecosystem.

The festival will feature films and documentaries as well as a selection of the best short films from the competition. There will be side events such as meetings and discussions with directors and actors. Some activities will be aimed to inform both students and teachers on issues related to climate change and renewable energy sources in order to both increase awareness as well as to encourage discussions on these topics among young people.

This year’s festival will also organize, on Thursday December 11th, an evening of preview, in collaboration with the City of Venice. This marks a very important event for Italian documentary cinema: the screening, 60 years after its presentation at the Venice Film Festival, of Folco Quilici’s Sesto Continente, one of the first films about the underwater world, and the very first to be shot in color, an exciting journey in the invisible universe of the seas, fundamental to our ecosystem.

The admission is free, subject to availability.

The Think Forward Film Festival was established in Venice in 2011, with the aim to study, discuss, and disseminate climate change as well as the issues related to energy efficiency and renewable energy through both short and feature films.

The Think Forward Film Festival is a project of the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) and is organized in collaboration with Eni e the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change.

For more information:

• the page of the event on CMCC’s website
• the TFFF official website.