Spotlighting sustainability
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These short films will be shown Dec. 4 at the inaugural InvestmentNews ESG & Impact Forum Film Festival in New York.
Bee Rescuer
Amit Godse, founder of social enterprise Bee Basket, strives to save the world by saving the bees, one of the planet’s most laborious and under appreciated insects.
Country of origin: India
Country of filming: India
Director: Bidit Roy
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Harvesting Rain
Showcasing the positive impact of BIOME Environmental Trusts’ work in government schools struggling with water availability in rural Bangalore, India. The project is funded by Wipro Cares.
Country of origin: India
Country of filming: India
Director: Goutham G. Varrier
Grow Your House
Describing how it’s possible to build bamboo houses and return dignified and human spaces to people.
Country of origin: Mexico
Country of filming:Mexico
Directors: Andrés Klimek Pavía, Sergio Donis Jaime
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Cesar’s Workshop
Presenting Cesar, a prosthetist in Kigali, Rwanda, who lost part of his leg during the country’s brutal civil war, and now earns his living helping others with similar conditions.
Country of origin: France
Country of filming: Rwanda
Director: Robin Pogorzelski
Soapmakers of Samabogo
Illustrating entrepreneurship and female empowerment, this short film features the soapmakers working from the dusty plains of southern Mali, in the sprawling village of Samabogo.
Country of origin: Mali
Country of filming: Mali
Director: Hannah Stanton-Jones, Tadg O’Keeffe
Poko
Showcasing CARE’s Adaptation Learning Program where the Farfar community in Northern Ghana is learning new ways to farm and adapt to the threat of climate change, which in recent years has caused extreme droughts and bushfires that destroyed large areas of rural land.
Country of origin: Denmark
Country of filming: Ghana
Director: Michael Schmidt-Olsen
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One Island
Describing the culture of a small renewable energy island in Denmark with fewer than 4,000 inhabitants, where in 1997, Samsø won a government competition to become a model renewable energy community. Today 100% of its electricity comes from wind and biomass.
Country of origin: Denmark
Country of filming: Denmark
Director: Mitra K. Bolouri Rasmussen
The Story of TRU Colors
Changing the culture of gang community violence by employing active gang members at a startup brewery in Wilmington, N.C.
Country of origin: USA
Country of filming: USA
Directors: Akeem Grady, Meagan Verdi
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