2012 Short Film Contest:

Forest ♦ Community ♦ Connection

30-300 seconds

Entries due Feb. 10th

Films for the Forest is an annual competition created and run by Rainforest Partnership. This year, the 3rd annual festival will be held during the Community Screenings at the SXSW Film Festival on March 12, 2012. Filmmakers will have three weeks to produce a short film, and winning films will be shown during the Screenings.

Please see additional guidelines on www.FilmsForTheForest.org and check out the winning films from 2010 and 2011.

The Secretary General also noted that it was unlikely we would see a binding climate agreement and thus continued to stress an underlying theme heard throughout the COP and ancillary conferences which is action and implementation and the need to move forward even though the UN negotiation pace is slow.   This was highlighted by the launch of the Momentum for Change initiative by the UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres last night.  The initiative focuses on climate solutions that reduce poverty, are scalable and replicable and created through public-private partnerships.

Countries will continue discussing draft texts over the next three days.  Although little is expected to come out of COP 17, there are many projects taking place world wide, large and small, that contribute to the mitigation and adaptation of climate change in the absence of international policy.  Rainforest Partnership will continue to do our part to mitigate climate change by working to improve livelihoods and protect the world’s remaining rainforests!