tve GSFA 2022

WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR THE TVE GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY FILM AWARDS 2022

Eleventh Anniversary of the Awards felicitates its winners at a gala Award Ceremony at Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London

 London November 29, 2022: The much-anticipated Award Ceremony for the tve Global Sustainability Film Awards 2022 (tve GSFA) was conducted at a special gala event, which took place at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in the city of London on November 29, 2022. The prestigious awards which are now in its eleventh year, announced the winners of its five competitive film categories along with the Founder’s Award which is a special nominated category. 

tve is a UK-registered charity founded by the United Nations Environment Programme, WWF-UK, and Central Television (now part of ITV) in 1984. Its mission is to use the power of storytelling to drive real world change for a more sustainable future. 

The winning films for the various categories of the tve GSFA 2022 are as follows:

Competitive Award Categories

Transforming Society: Road to Fulfilment (Phoenix Film, UAE)

Greener Living: Bad Blood (VICE Media, India) 

Documentary Impact: Eating Our Way to Extinction (Broxstar Productions Ltd, UK)

Young Filmmaker: Changing Paradigms (Henry Smith, Australia)

Digital Technology and AI for Sustainable Living: Age of Change: Circulor (Circulor, UK)

Additionally, a special tve Trustee Choice Award was given to the film Water for Life from Green Hub, India.

Nick Nuttall, chair of the jury for the tve GSFA 2022, praised the winners for their choice of themes that align with the seismic issues facing humanity and the planet. “The films we judged and awarded were undoubtedly inspiring but also told fascinating stories that reflect both the threats, and importantly the solutions, to climate change and the loss of animal and plant life up to how to build sustainable livelihoods,” he said. “The films we had the pleasure to view not only demonstrated creativity and quality but the fact that the answers to these multiple emergencies are emerging everywhere if only we choose to deploy them at scale,” said Nick, who is also a director and presenter of digital broadcaster We Don’t Have Time.

Speaking on the occasion, Mei Sim Lai, OBE DL and Chair tve said, “We received 72 very high quality films from around the world for the tve GSFA 2022 and it was not an easy task for the Jury to first arrive at the 17 shortlisted films and eventually the 5 final category winners. Well done and congratulations to all the shortlisted filmmakers and the final winners.”

A highlight of the evening was the presentation of the tve GSFA 2022 Founder’s Award, a special nominated award given to a feature film that best tackles sustainability issues in a new and innovative way on the big screen.

During the tve GSFA ceremony, the founder of the awards, president of TVE Surina Narula, MBE wore a T-shirt with the logo “Woman-Life- Freedom’ and stood in solidarity with the women of Iran who are protesting for their rights and freedom. She then mentioned American women who were also fighting for their right over their bodies and choices.

This year the founder’s award went to two films, for full length feature film it went to Call Jane for its effective portrayal of a pivotal chapter in American history. The film brings alive the troubled story of an American woman in the USA in the 1960s with a life threatening pregnancy which officially cannot be terminated, and how she reaches out an underground network of women who take risks to provide abortions.

For the documentary film founder’s award was given to director Alex Pritz’s brilliant The Territory with awe-inspiring cinematography, the film vividly brings alive the struggles of a young Indigenous leader and his mentor who fight back in defence of their land and an uncontacted group living deep within the forest.

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ANNEXURE

Additional Jury Excerpts for the Winning Films

1. Transforming Society Film Award Category Winner: Road to Fulfilment

“Two out of three bites of food we eat are pollinated by bees,” says a man in this charming production by Phoenix Film, set in the United Arab Emirates, that captures via the voices of local women, men and youth their passion to build a sustainable society that respects gender and the natural world. 

2. Greener Living Film Award Category Winner: Bad Blood

The theme of a poacher turned gamekeeper is an evergreen theme. But this riveting film by Vice News, narrating the personal guilt of a reformed rhino killer, was special: not least because such films come from Africa, but this was from the Indian border in Assam.

3. Documentary Impact Film Award Category Winner: Eating Our Way to Extinction

The unbridled impact of massive, rising, meat consumption on our forests, our water and our climate takes centre stage in this fast moving film by Broxstar Productions in the UK. If you knew there was a link to meat and multiple environmental crises, then now you know we can all do something.

4. Young Filmmaker Film Award Category Winner: Changing Paradigms

Regenerative agriculture is farming that puts the health of the soil at the centre of a new revolution that could help humanity avoid dangerous climate change while improving farmers’ incomes and growing healthy food. Told through the stories of two Australian farmers, this film is empowering and uplifting.

5. Digital Technology and AI for Sustainable Living Film Award Category Winner: Age of Change: Circulor

The Swedish electric car company Polestar has set a science-based target to combat climate change. But how to guarantee that the parts they source from global supply chains match this ambition. This film by Circulor in the UK shows how blockchain can be an answer and is told in a highly engaging and clear narrative.