The Australian High Commission Accra has once again supported the Environmental Film Festival of Accra under its Direct Aid Program (DAP). The support is toward the Young Film Makers Workshop which has been successfully completed and will be premiering at the festival launch.
As part of the collaboration, the High Commission has supported the festival with a range of films including short and award winning film, Ten Canoes (2006, Australia, 92 min) which opened the festival in 2008. Ten canoes, three wives, one hundred and fifty spears…trouble. Winner of a special jury prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and selected as Australia’s official entry into the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 2007 Academy Awards.
This year, EFFA will have a range of short animation films relating to climate change from the Australian Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?
http://www.mdba.gov.au/what-we-do/education/teachers/videos.
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We are pleased to report on the ninth edition of the annual international Environmental Film Festival of Accra held from 28 June to 5 July 2013. Over 300 people including several school children gathered at KAMA Conference Center for the launch with its focus on health and the environment.
Children from Accra, Cape Coast and the Volta region were selected to participate in the Young Film Makers Workshops. This year they learned to make mixed media art pieces on the environment and take photographs, in addition to making a film on the environment.
The forum focused on three thematic areas: Climate Change, Degraded Environment & Flooding, Water and Sanitation and Natural Resources in plenary and small group discussions. Presentations by leaders in the field introduced the key issues.
A major highlight of EFFA 2013 was the free malaria testing for members of the public that took place at the Freedom and Justice Park, Kwame Nkrumah Circle.
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