Garbage or Resource? A Dominican Republic Experience Set to Screen at International Environment & Wildlife Film Festival and Forum on October 13

GFDD’s short film "Garbage or Resource? A Dominican Republic Experience" will be screened on October 13th, 2015 at the 8th CMS Vatavaran International Environment & Wildlife Film Festival and Forum, India’s only International Film Festival, which takes place in New Delhi, October 9-13, 2015, at the Convention Centre. The film festival has become one of the most prestigious film festivals across the globe, and has been partners
with GFDD’s Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) since early 2015. Both festivals are members of the Green Film Network.

“Garbage or Resource? A Dominican Republic Experience” is produced by GFDD/Funglode and directed by Natasha Despotovic. It covers the unseen dangers of the 340 open-air landfills that can be found in the Dominican Republic, and the cultural changes which are creating initiatives that convert this
"problem" into an opportunity for development.

Through various corporate and educational projects, the viewer observes how– aside from the obvious environmental benefits– recycling enables economic development through the generation of new companies and industries. “Garbage or Resource?” has been screened at over fifteen different film festivals since its production in 2013, and has won several awards including Best Documentary at
the Miami Short Film Festival (MSFF), Best Documentary at the Green Lens Environmental Film Festival, and the Second Place Fan Coral Award at the Reef Renaissance Film Festival.

CMS VATAVARAN – International Environment & Wildlife Film Festival and Forum is India’s only International Film Festival, and was ranked in 2011 amongst the top two environment and wildlife film festivals in the world. Among their goals, the festival aims to encourage environment
films and forums that result in perception, practice and policy change, and enhance understanding of the natural world and its conservation.

More information:
www.cmsvatavaran.org
http://vat2015.cmsvatavaran.org/nominations-announced/
http://garbage.dreff.org