Global Verde Dominicano Award Winner “7 Gramos” Screened at Wildlife Festival

Over the weekend an Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital (DCEFF) Community Screening featured Dominican short-film and 2015 DREFF Globo Verde Dominicano Award winner “7 Gramos” (7 Grams).

The Dominican film was one of four movies showed at the Patuxent Research Refuge Wildlife Festival on Saturday, October 6, where dozens of families and young people went to learn about wildlife, research and how to protect the
environment.

The environmental film screenings were
looped all day long at the auditorium of the National Wildlife Visitor Center of the Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel, Maryland. The other films screened were "The Marvelous Musical Report of the Marine National Monuments,” “The Last Dragon—Saving the Appalachian Hellbenders,” and “Expedition Blue Planet—Anacostia River In the Shadow of the Capitol.”

In addition to films, visitors enjoyed displays on endangered
species, amphibian research and how to reduce the use of plastics, as well as much more.

About “7 gramos”
Based on a true story in a small rural community in the Dominican Republic, 7 Gramosnbsp;tells the story of a Hispaniolan Emerald (one of the smallest birds in the world, endemic species) who decides to build her nest and lay her eggs in a support pillar of a school building under
construction. After two weeks, her little chicks hatch. Along with their mother, the chicks begin their daily routine. Meanwhile, the construction workers, in order to finish their job, must decide whether to leave the birds’ nest where it is, or remove it. The short film won the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF)s’ Globo Verde Dominicano Award in 2015.