Oekomedia Sponsors Ecological Film Festival in Beijing"We hope to bring the latest and best ecological movies and video products to China," said Guenther Kinstler, director of the Oekomedia Institute.Kinstler made the remark at the opening ceremony of the Beijing International Ecological Film Festival here Friday. The German-based Oekomedia, a non-profit organization founded in 1984, founded the world's first international ecological film festival, which annually attracts many movies, TV programs and advertisements concerning ecological issues worldwide. "We seldom receive ecological movies or other video products from Asia, especially from China," Kinstler said, "But we learned that China is working hard to cope with its own environmental problems, through a TV program called 'Saving Forests' China send to our festival in 1999." ``Saving Forests", concerning the ban on logging in natural forests in China, won a special award at the festival that year. "It was that program that made us decide to bring ecological movies here," Kinstler said. About 20 ecological movies will be shown during the 16-day film festival, including several cartoon movies, said Shang Hui, deputy secretary general of the China Forum of Environmental Journalists (CFEJ), the festival's co-organizer in China. The film festival is the second of its kind to be held in Beijing. The first international ecological film festival was held four years ago, sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund and the State Environmental Protection Administration. |
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