The film festival "PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT" is conceived by the organizers as a platform to make people think about inter-relations between mankind and nature.
The Festival aims at raising environmental awareness by means of cinematography.
Submission of films for the Festival contest programme will finish on the 1st of April 2020. The framework of the Festival an Environmental Forum will be organized to discuss the most urgent environmental problems and the role of non-feature films in their solution.
The jury of the Festival evaluates films and decides on the winners and awardees of the Festival in the following categories:
• Festival Grand Prix n.a. V. Rasputin (including 200 000 Russian rubles award);
• The best documentary film n.a. M. Romm;
• The best popular-science film n.a. I. Cherskiy;
• The best feature film L. Gaidai;
• The best animated film;
• “Baikal” Prize – for acuteness of the problem (film on the most actual ecological problems).
Festival jury reserves a right to add any other nomination and award a film with corresponding diploma.
There are special awards as well:
• Youth Jury Award;
• Mass Media Award;
• Audience Award;
State, public, educational entities and other organizations can give optional awards on the Festival. There are personalized awards as well.