5th edition
of the audiovisual contest
in the area of environment and
sustainable development

The Competition

Goal  
The competition aims to motivate Dominican youth to produce audiovisual material that will generate awareness about the importance of the environment and sustainable development while, at the same time, providing an opportunity to screen the winning films in front of a national and international audience as a way of increasing the visibility of the film industry and to focus on environmental issues.

The Organization 
The contest is organized by the Dominican Republic Environmental Film (DREFF through the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), and the  Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode). 

Directed at:
Students and young professionals in cinema, photography, marketing or other related fields.

About the competition
The Globe Verde Dominicano Award is a unique opportunity for filmmakers, students and young professionals who wish to venture into a little-explored area in the Dominican Republic: producing audiovisual material of an environmental nature and showing their work to a national and international audience as part of each edition of the Dominican Environmental Film Festival (DREFF).

Participants
All persons of Dominican nationality, regardless of whether they live in the country, and foreigners who legally reside in the Dominican Republic, are eligible to participate in the contest.

Categories
There are four categories in the competition: Short Films, Globo Verde Junior, Public Service Announcements and Photography.

In the Short Film and Globo Verde Junior categories, the film presented must not exceed 15 minutes in length; entries for the Public Service Announcement category must not be more than 40 seconds in length. Genre is open, however, with the necessary condition that the topic must be about the environment and its numerous and varied artistic angles.

In the Photography category, three (3) entries per contestant may be presented that fulfill the theme selected by the jury, which will be different each year. This year (2016), the theme is: I am sustainable.

The images will reflect programs, projects, initiatives and people who work to benefit the environment and sustainable development in all aspects in the Dominican Republic. The theme this year seeks to promote the program of the United Nations, including Agenda 2030 for sustainable development and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. For more information and ideas on these issues, visit the DREFF blog (blog.dreff.org)

Specific Objectives:
Promote reflection on the reality of the Dominican environment and sustainable development and their implications for the future Generate proposals for the improvement of these problems facing the Dominican Republic in the areas of environment and sustainable development through the production of films and photography.

History
The environment and sustainable development have been among the predominant issues in the work of GFDD/Funglode since its inception. For this reason, many of these initiatives are undertaken to raise awareness and provide tools to work on these matters, especially among young Dominicans.

GFDD/Funglode, as part of the the II Dominican Environmental Film Festival (2012), launched the Globo Verde Dominicano Awards. In its first edition, there were two categories: Shorts and Public Service Announcements. In 2014, Photography was added and in, 2015, at the request of the high school students community, Globo Verde Junior category was created.

Choose your category and participate by completing the application form HERE