Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival (PIF) is an incorporated not-for-profit film festival and registered charitable organization, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
History
Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival (PIF) is an incorporated not-for-profit film festival and registered charitable organization, founded in 1999, by Mark Haslam.
PIF is currently run by a volunteer board of directors and a small staff, including executive director, Katherine Bruce, programs director, Alessandra Cannito, programmers Julian Carrington and Lesley Johnson, and Pre-Screeners, Ron Ma, Hui "Jane" Wang, Gesila Azorbo, Michael John Long, and Gabriela Aguilar.
Planet in Focus operates year-round to produce the annual film festival in October, as well as year-round programs such as the Cross Canada Campus Tour, Green School Tours and Eco-Film Lab filmmaking workshop for elementary students.
PIF grants yearly Eco-Hero Awards, and patrons include David Suzuki, Vandana Shiva, Rob Stewart, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Autumn Peltier, Ron Finley, Col. Chris Hadfield, Jennifer Baichwal, Margaret Atwood, Edward Burtynsky, and James Balog, among others.
Award winners
:Best Canadian Short Film - The Pipe Dreams Project, directed by Faros Des Roches and Ryan Vandecasteyen
:Best Canadian Short Film Honourable Mention - Spoke, directed by Lulu Wei
:Best Canadian Feature Film - Occupy Love, directed by Velcrow Ripper and produced by Ian Mackenzie and Nova Ami
:Best Canadian Feature Film Honourable Mention - Lost Rivers, directed by Caroline Bacle and produced by Katarina Soukoup
:Best International Short Film - HOT & BOTHERED (UK), directed by Giannina Lasalvia
:Best International Feature Film - Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth, directed by Frauke Sandig and Eric Black
:The Mark Haslam Award - Rainforest: The Limit of Splendour, directed by Richard Boyce
:The Mark Haslam Award Honourable Mention - Just Do It!, directed by Emily James
:The Green Pitch Award - Honey For Sale, directed by Amanda Strong
:The Green Screen Award, sponsored by Astral's Harold Greenberg Fund - Warehouse 13, Honorable Mention, In Organic We Trust, directed by Kiplin Pastor2011
Award winners
:Best Canadian Short Film - Nanameskueu (Tremblement de terre), directed by Réal Junior Leblanc
:Best Canadian Feature Film - Waking the Green Tiger, directed by Gary Marcuse
:Best International Short Film - Carbon for Water, directed by Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez Abramson
:Best International Feature Film - There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho, directed by Briar March
:The Mark Haslam Award - Keepers of the Water, directed by Ayelen Liberona
:The Green Pitch Award - Carpe Diem, directed by Charlotte Engel
:The Green Screen Award, sponsored by Astral's Harold Greenberg Fund - ' directed by Avi Federgreen, Honorable Mention, Powerful: Energy for Everyone, directed by David Chernushenko
:Canadian Eco-Hero - Kevin McMahon
:International Eco-Hero - Ric O'Barry
Toronto premieres
:Urban Roots, directed by Mark MacInnis
:On Coal River, directed by Francine Cavanaugh and Adams Wood
:La Reine Malade (The Ailing Queen), directed by Pascal Sanchez
:Waseya Dizihin, directed by Kevin Papatie
:White Water, Black Gold, directed by David Lavallee
:The Clean Bin Project, directed by Grant Baldwin
:L'Homme de glace (Ice Philosophy), directed by Melanie Carrier and Olivier Higgins
:There Once was an Island: Te Henua e Nnoho, directed by Briar March
:Darwin, directed by Nick Brandestini
:Solartaxi: Around the World With the Sun, directed by Erik Schmitt
:Waking the Green Tiger, directed by Gary Marcuse
:Spoil, directed by Trip Jennings and Andy Maser
Canadian premieres
:Revenge of the Electric Car (Opening Night Gala Presentation), directed by Chris Paine
:The Whale (Closing Night Gala Presentation), directed by Suzanne Chisholm
:Future of Hope, directed by Henry Bateman
:Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, directed by Werner Herzog
:Silent Snow: The Invisible Poisoning of the World, directed by Jan van den Berg and Pipaluk Knudsen-Ostermann
:Der Tag des Spatzen (Day of the Sparrow), directed by Philip Scheffner
:Enjoy Your Meal!:How Food Changes the World, directed by Walter Grotenhuis
:L'Or des autres (The Gold of Others), directed by Simon Plouffe
:Powerful: Energy for Everyone, directed by David Chernushenko
:Leonids Geschichte (Leonids Story), directed by Rainer Ludwigs
:Second Nature: The Biomimicry Evolution, directed by Guy Lieberman
:The Polar Explorer, directed by Mark Terry
:Last Stand on the Island, directed by Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez Abramson
:To Reveal the Fourteen Windows, directed by Christina Battle
:Cowboys in India, directed by Simon Chambers
:Le White (White Houses), directed by Simona Risi
North American premieres
:Up in Smoke, directed by Adam Wakeling
World premieres
:Portrait of Resistance: The Art & Activism of Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge, directed by Roz Owen
:The Past as Future, directed by Ton van Zantvoort
:From Chernobyl to Fukushima: A Campaigner's Journey, directed by Aube Giroux
:Brick by Brick: The Story of the Evergreen Brickworks, directed by Catherine Annau
:Niger River: A River Under Siege, directed by Bernice Notenboom
:Carbon for Water, directed by Evan Abramson and Carmen Elsa Lopez Abramson
:On the Line, directed by Frank Wolf
Toronto premieres
:', directed by Sam Bozzo
:Peace with Seals, directed by Miroslav Novak
:Boreal Forest Expedition, directed by Nick and Lindsay Bradford-Ewart
:Northland: Long Journey, directed by Edie Steiner
:Chasing Wild Horses, directed by Matt Trecartin and John Wesley Chisholm
:Howser in Peril, directed by Tom Prior
:Death in the Forest, directed by Gordon McLennan
:Being Innu, directed by Catherine Mullins
:Waste = Food, directed by Rob Van Hattum
:Addicted to Plastic, directed by Ian Connacher
:Umbrella (film), directed by Du Haibin
:Birth of the Smoked Meat, directed by Jeanne Pope and Zoe Mapp
:Tableland, directed by Craig Noble
:Papiroflexia, directed by Jaoquin Baldwin
:The Poet of Grappa, directed by Stefano Scarafia
:Flowers of Rwanda, directed by David Muñoz
:Intestines of the Earth, directed by Barbier Olivier
:Gimmie Green, directed by Isaac Brown and Eric Flagg
:Mama Coco: The Sacred Leaf, directed by Felix Atencio-Gonzales
:Rallco, a Bad Business, directed by Nicholas Garcia and Xavier Vasqué
:Pick me Up, directed by Andrea Bussman
:Gates of the Arctic, directed by Rory Banyard
Canadian premieres
:Our Wonderful Nature, directed by Tomer Eshed
:Michael Schmidt: Organic Hero or Bioterrorist, directed by Norman Lofts
:Heron Pond: A Boardwalk View, directed by Cade Bursell
:Eviction, directed by Terra Schnoor
:Terra Sacer, directed by Alberto Guevara, Elysee Nouvet
:A Massacre Foretold, directed by Nick Higgins
:The Beggars in Addis Arabia, directed by Jakob Gottschau
:Paradise- Three Journeys in this World, directed by Elina Hirvonen
:The Sacred Food, directed by Jack Pettibone Riccobono
:My Inventions, directed by Robert Holbrook
:Global Food: Once Upon a French Fry, directed by Pierre-Olivier François
:Land of Writers, directed by Silvio Ciuccetti
:Slow Food, directed by Vanja Ohna
:Greina, directed by Villi Hermann
:On Relations, directed by Jorge Acebo
:Roaming Around, directed by Brigette Bertele
:Fighting Goliath - Texas Coal Wars, directed by Mat Hames
:Charcoal Traffic, directed by Nathan Collett
:Scarred Lands and Wounded Lives: The Environmental Impact of War, directed by Alice and Lincoln Day
:Where Do They Go?, directed by Julianne Becker
:The Right to Survive- Turtle Conservation and Fisheries Livelihoods, directed by Rita Banerji, Shilpi Sharma
:The Squid DaddyâÂÂs Labour Room, directed by Ke Chin Yuan
:Today the Hawk Takes One Chick, directed by Jane Gillooly
:We Belong to this Country, directed by Alison Leonard
:One of the Last, directed by Paul Zinder
:Fate of the Lhapa, directed by Sarah Sifers
:Sounds of the Seas, directed by Volker Barth
:The Last Nomads, directed by Andrew Gregg
:Eternal Mash, directed by Catherine van Campen
:Journey of a Red Fridge, directed by Lucian and Natasa Muntean
:Strange Homeland, directed by Jens Schanze
:Boomrang, directed by Daryoush Gharibzadeh
:One Water, directed by Ali Habashi and Sanjeev Chatterjee
:Justice Now, directed by Martin OâÂÂBrien, Robbie Proctor
:Alethea, directed by Petra Holzer, Ethem Ozguven
:Crossed Wires, directed by Elida Schogt
:The Green Dragon, directed by Caroline Harrison
:Digital Cemeteries, directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos
:Crabs on the Road, directed by Gabriela Dominguez
:Atlantis Approaching, directed by Elizabeth Pollock
:This Much I Know, directed by Bridget Hanna
:A Moment of Clarity, directed by Sarah Cowhey, Louise Davidson
:If Man Could Fly, directed by Yael Kipper Zaretzky
:MaâÂÂrib, directed by Rainer Komers
:Farms Without Farmers, directed by Jessica Weisberg, Benjamin Thorp Brown
:The Hunger Season, directed by Beadie Finzi
:Are There Still Any Shepherds, directed by Jorge Pelicano
North American premieres
:Begging for Change, directed by Dave Jones
:Alchemy, directed by Eva Bakkeslett
:Showdown at the Top of the World, directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos
:Welcome Aboard Toxic Airlines, directed by Tristan Loraine
:49 Words for Snow, directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos
World premieres
:Driven By Vision, directed by Michael McNamara
:The Falldown, directed by Ben Graeme
:Tales of a Yellow Bike, directed by Tina Hahn
:Soldiers of Peace, directed by Timothy Wise
:Breadmakers, directed by Yasmin Fedda
:Return to Nepal, directed by Robert Lang
:Thirst, directed by Gail Maurice
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