The sixth edition of EcoVision Festival will take place in Palermo, Italy, in June 2010.

All fiction and documentary feature films, short films or videos will be accepted by EcoVision Festival 2010.

The Festival aims at exalting and promoting cinematographic and environmental productions dealing with subjects such as man-environment problems, environment protection, human rights, deforestation, the relationship with the city and new technologies, radioactive experiments in various areas of the world, sustainable development, how the concept of environment in rich countries differs from that belonging to poor countries, but also mere descriptions of meaningful environmental areas, as well as all the productions concerning any aspect of environment and nature.

Works from any country, realized from 2008 to 2010, can take part in the EcoVision Festival 2010, having as topic the object of the Festival: the “environment”, considered both as natural and cultural environment, with all questions correlated with it. The Festival will consider as a preferential title, the unpublished films presented.

Fiction and documentaries, reports and animation films, which last no more than 30 minutes can take part in the competition. However, we will accept films longer than 30 minutes that can be screened in or out competition at the discretion of the Jury. Films produced in the following formats: 16 and 35 mm films, Betacam SP, NORMAL or DIGITAL, DVC Pro 25 or 50, HD Cam or DV Cam must be re-recorded on DVD  only in PAL standard for the preselection, the copy sent will not be used for the screening at the Festival. It is therefore necessary to send copy of the film in the format required at point 20, penalty the exclusion. In addition, the festival will not accept Mini-DV copies for the preselection. There will be four thematic areas in the Festival:

- Environmental

- Sociological

- Eco Tourist

- Panorama (works concerning any subject)

The works will be judged by an international Jury, composed by eminent personalities of the artistic, scientific, cultural and cinematographic world, as well as journalists, university teachers and directors. The Jury’s decision is final.

The Jury will award to the Best Film of all categories the following:

Great Prize Best Film “EcoVision Festival 2010”

The Jury could indicate, moreover, with especial mentions, films in competition with a particular value.

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Let us make sure 2012 happens, not as an event of the end of the world, but an end to the way of life that has become, moving towards a sustainable world in which we are very much connected to the very earth from which we grow. The life styles we have grown up with cannot continue and i myself refuse to live the way of my parents. 9-5 job in order to just get by. Life is much simpler then that if one is just willing to put forth a little effort. 

It is up to us all who have began to form this new consciousness to go out of our way every day to create awareness of our suffering planet and to advocate change we cannot just sit by and watch. in the 60's there was the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the vietnam protest and so forth. now our cause is greater then ever. The cause is our earth and insuring our future not as is but in symbiosis with nature and all that we are connected to. Let our voices be heard, let our actions be seen, let our future be sustainable. A new conscious is forming in the youth of the world and something is being triggered from within that something is very wrong here. let us awaken and take action. RISE