Arcadia International Environmental Film Festival
Project Description
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ABOUT THE ARCADIA FESTIVAL:
The Arcadia International Environmental Film Festival will be launched mid 2012 simultaneously in over 25 major cites worldwide. We plan on screening at least 15 movies, with additional short environmental documentaries. The focus of the festival will be on environmental protection, food security, social inequalities, climate change, pollution and activism. The aim is to enlighten and empower individuals and communities globally to take actions, together, to live a more sustainable lifestyle.
WORKING TOGETHER:
To put this immensely important project together requires working together on this shared vision with all concerned, from responsible businesses to environmental organizations, right up to individual commitments. We require resources to bring into being this festival and with your financial support, we will go ahead to make this happen.
The Film Festival will work hand-in-hand with leading environmental organizations worldwide by providing an opportunity for these organizations to receive a substantial part of the funds generated from film ticket sales. In buying their tickets to see films, movie goers from all around the world will be supporting the great work of these organizations. Arcadia believes in working together for this shared vision. This festival is of crucial importance for socially responsible businesses as they have now an incredible opportunity to showcase their great products and services by supporting one or more events.
The project
has the support of leading environmentalists such as Indira Naidoo, Tim
Silverwood and David Kennett from Australia. Other various environmental
organizations are whole heartedly supporting us, including Yann-Arthus
Bertrand, from France, with the screening of his award-winning documentary
HOME. 
Indira Naidoo (Author, Broadcaster) Tim Silverwood (Take3) 
David Kennett (Auria Forestry Project) Yann Arthus-Bertrand (Home the Movie)
What we need NOW is your support to get the festival on screens! Let’s do it!!
WHERE YOUR PLEDGE WILL GO:
Arcadia minimises expenses with a small staff working, backed up by a growing team of enthusiastic volunteers. All donations will go to our film and documentary procurement, venue hire, minimal paid promotions, a professional website, a press kit for the festival to get more progressive voices heard globally.
As a not-for-profit organization, we adhere to a policy of financial transparency. Our results for yearly external audits will be posted on our website, with breakdown of our expenditures.
BE INVOLVED:
If you have any inquiries regarding this project, our films
in general, other creative ideas about supporting us or volunteering for the
event, you can email us at arcadiafestival@yahoo.com. If you just want to find
out more about what we do or who we are, check out our Facebook, website, and follow us on Twitter.
A BIT ABOUT ME:
My name is Aymeric Maudous, born and raised in the
bountiful vineyards of Bordeaux, France. I now live in Sydney, Australia which
I have called home now for the past 8 years. Two of my particular passions come
together in this film festival: films and the environment.
Passionate about living a more sustainable lifestyle, I have always believed in a balanced world where technology, social progress, individual flourishing and environmental protection intermingle perfectly to sustain our own personal growth.
If the funding goes beyond my initial goal of A$20,000 then I would love to add additional countries for screening the movies, secure the screening rights for more movies, some interactivity on the website where people can share eco movies, and create an app for the festival. Any extra funds over and above the goal will enable me to pay some more creative and talented people to breathe more life into the festival!!
Thanks for checking out my project!
Aymeric
Project By
Applying my Masters in Environmental Management, I began introducing Sydney-siders to more natural living through sustainable landscape design.
“I like seeing people change their habits and feel good about it. When I introduced people to rainwater tanks, planting more trees and growing their own veggies, I was rewarded with stories about the simple joys of seeing birds come into their gardens, how much better their food tasted and how much better they felt eating it… It inspired me to want to do more and more to reach people.”
The Arcadia Film Festival project encapsulates a philosophy of Wellbeing for all, where our thinking and actions create more ecologically viable communities, both locally and globally.
I would like us all to reduce our eco-footprints into eco-fingerprints.
My indelible passion for the environment, demonstrated through various other professional outreach programs, arrived much earlier in life as I enjoyed picking the luscious fruits and vegetables on my grandparents’ organic farm, and growing a tiny plot all my own. As a kid, no ‘lost’ ant, no snail with a broken shell or wounded bird was safe from my nurturing care and observation... which sometimes drove my Mum crazy!!
“I remember my grandfather explaining to me the connection of everything on this Earth from his cows and chickens and land to the nearby forest and the rainwater he collected. The organic way of doing things and taking care of the earth is not reserved to an elite. I want to inspire people to find solutions to our actual environmental problems while connecting them more with our natural environment by promoting truly sustainable practices.”
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