The Aegean Film Festival together with WaterBear Network & HHMI Tangled Bank Studio have set the annual goal of bringing measurable environmental change and educate the next generations regarding the climate emergency.
For this reason, we introduced the programme “Echoes” – an international summit where filmmakers, scientists and environmentalists create and share compelling stories. It consists of documentary screenings, Q&A’s, panel-talks, presentations, workshops and the RTF Competition.
The Rescript The Future Competition, for young storytellers 13-24 years old, runs for a second successful time!
By assembling the knowledge, resources and communicators in the same location, we aim to “fast-track” projects and amplify awareness about ways to make a positive impact.
The festival is also “walking its talk” with the target of becoming environmentally sustainable by 2023.
Together with KiloShop team, we up-cycle our old T-shirts and turn them into a brand new sustainable collection, we up-cycle our banners and screens into beach bags, we use our old tote-bags to re-print the new ones, we ban plastic from all of our operations and introduce many more cool new practices.
In 2022, Echoes took place in Spetses Island where we also launched the Festival Alliance for the Climate – an international initiative with the mission to amplify the environmental voices.