Amazon International Environmental Film Festival
Mocoa, Putumayo, Colombia | October 3-6, 2019
The FICAMAZONIA film festival promoted the need for restoring and conserving the Amazon jungle. It was organized in association with FICCI, International Film Festival of Cartagena de Indias and Corpoamazonia, with the support of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, the two ASL projects (Forest Conservation and Sustainability in the Heart of the Colombian Amazon and Connectivity and Biodiversity Conservation in the Colombian Amazon), Amazonia Sostenible para la Paz, UNDP, Tropenbos, SINCHI Institute, ANDI, and the governments of Putumayo and Mocoa. The festival welcomed the Amazon filmmakers whose works reflected environmental issues, social interactions and connections between ancestral wisdom and possible solutions to major environmental problems.
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