Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival (PIF) celebrates its 20th anniversary with a lineup including an eye towards the future, with a selection of cutting-edge filmmaking that reflects the globe through a dynamic range of voices and perspectives.
Below are my personal picks for this year’s festival… Always lots of interesting and thought-provoking films.
Filmed during the last 9-10 years, Ontario’s Slater Jewell-Kemker has travelled the world on the front lines of climate change. At 15 years-old, Slater began documenting the rise of the global youth climate movement, which has taken her around the world to UN Climate Conferences and communities on the front lines of climate change. The result is the documentary Youth Unstoppable. READ MORE
Theater Of Life
World renowned culinary artist and humanist Massimo Bottura, whose restaurant Osteria Francescana has been voted number one in the world, decided to create a soup kitchen during Milan’s World Fair in 2015. Director Peter Svatek documented the proceedings as sixty of the world’s best chefs joined him to cook for refugees and the homeless of Milan out of the waste food of the Expo. READ MORE
Planet In Focus (PIF) Environmental Film Festival, Canada’s largest and longest running environmental film festival, is proud to announce the dates for next year’s festival. The 17th annual Planet in Focus will take place from October 18th to 23rd. READ MORE
