Sustainability and communications experts have shortlisted for this year's tve Global Sustainability Film Awards together with Fastflow Group, 18 films showcasing how companies around the world are addressing the Sustainable Development Goals. From carbon recapture filmed in Iceland, to innovative new techniques in architecture in the UK; from a Danish energy company's complete shift to renewables, to the provision of electricity in remote villages of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the films showcase inspiring approaches to the environmental and social challenges the world faces. All entries are available to view on the Awards website.
The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony and gala dinner at BAFTA on Monday 26 November. Tickets are now available.
This year's entries take us on a global tour of sustainable innovation and impact, from Bangladesh to Switzerland, from Guatemala to Greece, Spain to Vietnam and more,' says Victoria Brooks, shortlisting chair, sustainability communications strategist, and head of programmes at the advertising women's network, Bloom. The films this year demonstrate brilliantly creative and cutting edge solutions to social and environmental challenges, the stories of which I hope will inspire true change,' says Victoria.
Films were shortlisted in each of the five award categories: Protecting the Environment; Reshaping the Economy; Transforming Society; Sky: Beyond Plastic and Global Digital Futures.
The judges, chaired by Nick Nuttall, international director of communications for Beautiful Corporations and former spokesperson and director of communications for the Global Climate Action Summit, will select one winner in each category.
The shortlisting panels, chaired by Victoria Brooks, vice-president of the Awards, brought together expertise from the creative, corporate and sustainability fields. The panels consisted of: Ali Alvarez, award-winning filmmaker and creative director; Andrew Wilson, director of Edelman's work on Purpose; Emma De'Ath, commissioning editor at BBC Global News; Grace Bian, vice-president of the Awards and chair of the China International Culture Stock Exchange; Karin Laljani, economist and former CEO of Corporate Citizenship; Kate Phillips OBE, former marketing director and associate director of Christian Aid; Lady Dyson, artist, carpet designer and London gallery owner; Sarah Dawkins, producer at Sky News; Sarah Whitehead, deputy head of news gathering at Sky News and Zomo Fisher, director at Accenture's Sustainability Strategy Practice.
The shortlisted films are:
Protecting the Environment
ABB Iceland completes ring of electric vehicle chargers circling entire country
Climeworks A technology to reverse climate change
Hubbub How bad is air pollution and what can we do about it
rsted Love your home
World Business Council for Sustainable Development The natural solution
Transforming Society
ABB ABB technology innovation brings access to electricity for the Congo
Fashion 4 Change Catwalk to creation
Hogan Lovells Flip the switch a documentary
HSBC and WaterAid Rising seas - shrinking water sources
Volvo The unseen ocean
Reshaping the Economy
CineTecture - Moulding futures
Climeworks - Capturing CO2 from air
MANTA - We the children, commit to a greener, fairer world
Sky: Beyond Plastic
Hubbub - 6 hidden plastics in your home and what you can do about them
PLASTIC ENERGY - Closing the plastic loop
The New Raw - Second nature
Global Digital Futures:
GODAN OPEN WATER documentary web series
Femnesty Ltd Empowering women everywhere
Notes for editors:
The tve Global Sustainability Film Awards are organised annually by the charity tve. The film competition recognises companies and institutions whose films most powerfully portray solutions for sustainability. This year's competition has attracted 42 entries. For the third year running we are focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which set ambitious targets for world development: eradicating poverty and hunger; ensuring good health, quality education and gender equality; and setting targets for affordable and clean energy, climate action and responsible consumption and production. The president of the 2018 Awards is Claudine Blamey, group head of corporate responsibility and sustainability at Sainsbury's. gsfa.tve.org
tve is the non-profit based in London that organises the Awards. It creates and enables others to create powerful, effective communications about the environment and sustainable development. Through film, animation, documentaries, debates and social media, the media charity reaches global audiences, giving a voice to a new generation committed to a greener and fairer world. The Awards are tve's main annual fundraiser. www.tve.org
Fastflow Group is the Awards' main sponsor for the fourth year running. The company provides infrastructure maintenance and improvement services to Northumbrian Water and Scottish Water, and a wide range of high pressure gas transmission engineering projects for clients such as National Grid and Cadent Gas, from bases in Washington, Tyne and Wear, and Warrington, Greater Manchester.
From Thame, Oxfordshire it delivers planned and responsive repairs for housing associations owning around 200,000 homes across the south of the UK. A recent addition to the business - County Durham and Derbyshire based Partner Group - designs and builds homes for housing associations and major asset owners across the UK.
Fastflow Group operates within the support services sector, supplying cost-effective and value-added services in a collaborative, proactive, fair and responsible manner. The customer base includes Northumbrian Water and Scottish Water, FTSE top 100 company National Grid and Housing Associations A2Dominion, Catalyst Housing
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Sustainability and communications experts have shortlisted for this year's tve Global Sustainability Film Awards together with Fastflow Group, 18 films showcasing how companies around the world are addressing the Sustainable Development Goals. From carbon recapture filmed in Iceland, to innovative new techniques in architecture in the UK; from a Danish energy company's complete shift to renewables, to the provision of electricity in remote villages of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the films showcase inspiring approaches to the environmental and social challenges the world faces. All entries are available to view on the Awards website.
