AICA PRIZE 2011 guest of Cinemambiente

by Silvia Musso

Sunday June 5th, during the Cinemambiente International Festival closing evening, the AICA Prize 2011 has been given, confirming the collaboration between AICA association and the Festival itself.

The prize is divided into three categories: “Communicating with citizens improves environment”, the Special Prize “Communicating the Kyoto Protocol” and the Career Prize “Beppe Comin”. The first category focuses every year on a different topic that this year is “Communicating the forests”.

The winners of the three categories awarded at the Massimo Cinema in Turin were:

INTERNATIONAL FOREST FILM FESTIVAL a festival organized by United Nations Forest Forum in occasion of the International Year of Forests 2011;

MINISTÈRE DE L’ÉCOLOGIE ET DU DÉVELOPPEMENT DURABLE for the campaign “Il n’ya pas de petits gestes quand on est 60 millions à les faire” (“There are no small acts if we are 60 milions to do them”) aimed at promoting among the citizenship the environmental policy of the French government;

PIERO ANGELA, science avisers and well known Italian television character.

On behalf of the United Nations Forum on Forests, the Director Ms. Jan L. McAlpine received the Prize. After explaining how the Festival idea developed claimed: «It is only thanks to the support of public that events like this can succeed. When we launched the idea of the International Forest Film Festival did not think it would the participation of over 160 films and that the public interest would be so wide. This is a sign that among the public there is a widespread environmental awareness that we must continue to grow».

For the French Ministry was present instead Jacques Faye, General Director of the prevention of major risks, which stated: «The Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development is a large container that deals with various issues. The main objective of this campaign as well as many others that we have fostered over the past few years, is to make environmental communication also public and institutional. That is why our campaigns are increasingly addressed to the whole citizenship and use the national media such as radio and TV».

Roberto Cavallo, President of AICA, taking the slogan of the French Ministry campaign - There are not small things if we have millions of people to do them - reminded, finally, the next important event in Italy on June 12th in which all citizens are asking to take part: the vote for the referendum on nuclear power and public water, two environmental issues that were two of the main themes of the 2011 International Festival of Cinemambiente.
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Aica Prize 2011 more and more international

by Silvia Musso

Also this year the collaboration between AICA association and the International Festival of Cinemambiente continues. June 5th, during the Festival closing evening, the annual AICA Prize, arrived at its VIII edition, will be in fact given.

AICA awards those environmental campaigns aimed at focusing the citizens' attention on the environmental issues, creating a commomn awareness and an environmental culture.

The prize is divieded into three categories: “Communicting with citizens improves environment”, the Special Prize “Communicating the Kyoto Protocol” and the Career Prize “Beppe Comin”. The first category focuses every year on a different topic that this year is “Communicating the forests”.

Here the names of the winners of the three categories that will be awarded on Sunday June 5th, at 9.00 p.m. at Massimo Cinema in Turin ( North Italy):

INTERNATIONAL FOREST FILM FESTIVAL a festival organized by United Nations Forest Forum in occasion of the International Year of Forests 2011;

MINISTÈRE DE L’ÉCOLOGIE ET DU DÉVELOPPEMENT DURABLE for the campaign “Il n’ya pas de petits gestes quand on est 60 millions à les faire” (“There are no small acts if we are 60 milions to do them”) aimed at promoting among the citizenship the environmental policy of the French government;

PIERO ANGELA, science avisers and well known Italian television character.

«This year the Prize has focused more than the previous editions on internationalism - explains Roberto Cavallo, president of AICA - We are pleased, indeed, to welcome the delegates of the UN and Jacques Faye, as representative for the French Ministry of Ecology. We are also delighted to hand over the Career Award to one of the main Italian scientific advisers who in recent decades has approached the general public to environmental issues through programs that have made television history in Italy».

Gaetano Capizzi, Director of Cinemambiente, adds: «The awarding of the International Forest Film Festival inside the Festival of Cinemambiente will be an important opportunity to reflect on the disclosure of environmental issues through art film».
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Cinemambiente between nuclear energy and water privatisation

by Silvia Musso

It took place on Friday, May 20 the press conference to launch the fourteenth edition of the International Festival of Cinemambiente, the most important festival in Italy dedicated to environmental issues, directed by Gaetano Capizzi and organized in collaboration with the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin.

The press conference, hosted by the Museo Nazionale of Cinema, had as usual a large audience. The institutions present - Piedmont Region, Province and Municipality of Turin - have highlighted the importance of this event for the whole area.

Cinemambiente is not limited to a few days, but it is a real project that covers the entire year thanks to the many activities coordinated with local governments and schools.

Then Gaetano Capizzi presented the meaning of the graphic line of the poster for this edition. This is an origami crane, animal that in Japanese symbolism means "Best wishes for a speedy recovery". During the days of the festival, which takes place from May 31 to June 5, there will be colored sheets and instructions for creating these origami. Once collected, they will be sent to Japan with the most sincere hope that the Japanese people can recover as soon as possible from the nuclear tragedy that has recently affected them.

The opening film of the festival, which will be screened simultaneously in the three Cinema Massimo halls at 9.00 p.m., 31st May, will be "Waste Land ", 2011 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary. "Waste Land", directed by Lucy Walker, with the help of Harley and Karen João Jardim. describes the work of Vik Muniz, a contemporary artist, South American native, who creates his works using discarded materials and waste. Through a story of social redemption, the camera will closely monitor, without judgments, the world of "pickers", those who make a direct "recycling" of waste in the slums of large cities and bidonville in South America.

Among other films that will be presented, many of which have nuclear energy or the issue of water privatization as their main theme, there are also the Finnish "Into Eternity" about the storage and disposal of radioactive waste and "También la Lluvia "(Even the rain) - a complaint about the water war involving Bolivia in 2000.

At the competition there will be also many films from Italy and Piedmont, firstly "Dust" by Niccolò Bruna and Andrea Prandstraller dedicated to the problem of asbestos that has struck the Italian town of Casale Monferrato in north Italy.

«Over the years the festival has steadily grown its position as one of the largest environmental film events on the international scene - said Gaetano Capizzi - CinemAmbiente is also the first zero emissions festival: CO2 emissions produced during the Festival are in fact compensated, its products are made with recycled and FSC certified materials. The Festival has also joined the protocol of Agenda 21 on the purchase of environmentally sustainable materials».

Also this year has been the collaboration between AICA and its member Cinemambiente has been confirmed. On June 5th, in the final evening of the Festival, it will be also organized the annual AICA Prize now in its eighth edition.

The AICA Prize rewards those who, through communication campaigns, brings environmental problems to the attention of citizens, helping to create a consciousness and an environmental culture.

The Award is divided into three categories: “Communicating with citizens, improve environment”, Special Prize "Communicating the Kyoto Protocol" and the Career Prize "Beppe Comin”. Every year the first category focuses on a specific theme that this time will be "Communicating the forests”.
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Premio AICA between biodiversity and green suggestions

by Silvia Musso

The 7th edition of AICA Prize has been held during the last evening of Cinemambiente (Environmentl Film Festival), yesterday 6th June, in Turin. In front of a wide and heterogeneous public, Gaetano Capizzi, director of Cinemambiente, invited Roberto Cavallo, president of AICA, to introduce the Prize and its winners.
Also this year, the categories were three. For “Communicating with citizens, improves the environment”, dedicated to the issue of biodiversity, the Terra Madre Movement, founded by Carlin Petrini, was awarded. Big mediatic event, Terra Madre is able to communicate the value of biodiversity at all levels: scientific, environmental and cultural.
Eric Vassallo of Piedmont Slow Food, taking the Prize, claimed: Terra Madre is an effective movement, not just an event linked to a precise period of the year. Farmers and people who belong to this network, daily dedicate themselves to the cure of their cultivations and biodiversity to give next generations an entire environmental heritage.

The Prize for the category “Communicating the Kyoto Protocol” was given to Andy Hobsbawm, founder with Naresh Ramchandani of the “Do the Green Thing” community, aimed to spread useful suggestions to raise awareness not only among citizens, but also governments and businesses to make green choices. Hobsbawm participeted to the awarding ceremony in videoconference. Glad for the Prize, he stressed that the diffusion of green messages must be creative and must use different channels and languages. Environmental communication must be sexi to attract as many people as possible in order that living in a sustainable way wouldn’t seen as an obligation, but becomes a deep desire.
The skype connection, tool that with the distances drops up the CO2 emissions, that had success during the last edition, has been repeated again.

The third Prize to Career, dedicated to Beppe Comin, an Italian expert of environmental communication in Italy, was won by Enzo Bianchi. The prior of the Monastic Communinity of Bose, whose books and articles are together an expression of love for environment and an advise to respect the Earth's products, was unable to participate for a previous committment. Anyway he gave his availability to organise another encounter, that will be a wonderful occasion to reflect on the relation between religion and the respect for the environment.
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Cinemambiente: way to the thirteenth edition

by Annalisa Audino

It will be since 1st to 6th June, the first and most important Italian festival dedicated to environmental issues: Cinemambiente Festival, directed by Gaetano Capizzi and organized with the National Museum of the Cinema of Turin. Arrived at his thirteenth Edition, for the 2010 Edition, the festival moves from autumn to spring for linking in an important international event to raise awareness on issues of ecology and sustainability, The International Day for the Environment to be held on 5th June.

The review has as main objective the growth, through cinema, of the culture of the environment: screenings, debates, exhibitions, art initiatives, meetings, presentations of books and many other events intend to communicate the eclecticism of the environment and especially our role for its safeguarding. Two events, in particular, will demonstrate this year the international character of the festival: projections of No impact Man, the Italian film, preview, which tells the experiment of Colin Beavan and his family who have lived for a year to zero impact, and Mallaig, winner of best documentary Oscar 2010, on the serious danger of extinction of dolphins.

Interesting will be in any case all screenings of the Festival. The International Documentaries Competition consists of a dozen titles, including The end of the line of “Rupert Murray”, a searing document on risk of extinction of many species of fish, that became a case in England; the winner of Al Gore Reel Current Award Garbage Dreams by Ever Iskander, on "garbage people" that in Cairo collect approximately three tons of waste per day and live in a shantytown of waste; Big River man by John Maringouin, winner of the Sundance 2009, concerning the crossing of the Amazon swim of Martin Strel, said "man fish" by Indians, hero and show man in Slovenia.

The international character of the festival combines attention to Italy, with its negative cases of unauthorized alteration of the environment, but also of various experiences. The Italian documentary competition will tell some cases, such as Le White by Simona Risi, on asbestos of white houses of Rogoredo in Milan, and People of Alpes by Giovanna Poldi Allai, Sandro Nardi, Philip Lilloni, which tells instead a place where the relationship man/nature is still very strong, whose protagonist is the musician Lindo Ferretti.
The three competitions joins the section panorama: particular attention will be given to some of the cornerstone topics of festivals including the Focus on biodiversity, the Focus urban green (whose scope is presented the garden, which tells the community garden greatest of all the United States) and ambient/actions, which will host the projection of Logorama, Oscar 2010 as best short animation. Inevitable finally link with squares, that will be affected by a number of initiatives on the environment, including the 5th June Park(ing) Day, on June 6th the Bike Pride and the national gathering on guerrilla gardens, in addition to moments of literary debate.

Moreover, Envi editorial staff is glad to underline that this year into the context of Cinemambiemte Festival, the yearly AICA Prize will be also organized.
The AICA Prize, at its 7th edition, since 2004, aims to award who focus citizens’ attention on environmental issues, throughout communication campaigns, creating an environmental culture and awareness.
There are three yearly prizes: the AICA Prize “Communicating with Citizens improves the Environment”; the special prize “Communicating the Kyoto Protocol” and the Career Prize (entitled to Mr. Beppe Comin, one of the pioneers of environmental communication in Italy).
The first category focuses every year on a specific topic, that this year will be “Communicating the biodiversity”.
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Crossmedia, environmental picture and climate creative

by Alessio Sciurpa

The excellence of environmental communication were awarded today in Turin (Italy). The VI edition awards ceremony of the AICA Prize was the opportunity to listen to the experience of the music band Motel Connection, their meeting with the Polytechnic of Turin and with a new ecology point of view, which have resulted in the cross-media project H.E.R.O.I.N. awarded today with the AICA Prize "Communicating with citizens improves environment. Communicating the Green Innovation ".

Robin Hammond's experience in the satellite link from South Africa, was awarded the Special Prize "Communicating the Kyoto Protocol," the photographer who has made for Panos Pictures the reportage on Tuvalu, a small island in New Zealand almost completely submerged because of the effects of climate change. But also an opportunity to explore a preview of the new project of the Open University Professor Joe Smith "Creative climate", which will be presented during the upcoming COP15 in Copenhagen and through that will explore the contributions of many actors, perceptions and communication of climate change during the next ten years, between 2010 and 2020.

A particular thanks goes to all those who have made the event possible: the City of Turin and the event sponsors Piedmont Region, Amiat and Erica soc. coop. More...

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AICA Prize 2009 - Edition VI

Friday, December 4 at 11.30 a.m. at the Hall of Columns of the City of Turin, Piazza Palazzo di Città, will presented the winning campaigns of the VI edition of the AICA Prize 2009 "Communicating with citizens improves Environment".

The Motel Connection to the complete: Samuel, Pierfunk and Pisti, withdraw the prize "Communicating with citizens improves Environment. Communicating green innovation" for the project H.E.R.O.I.N. - Human Environmental Return of Output/Input Network, cross-media project between music, comics, video game and the environment.

Will also be an opportunity to listen Robin Hammond, photographer, who has created for Panos Pictures the reportage on the island of Tuvalu, which won the Special Prize "Communicating the Kyoto Protocol". By videoconference from South Africa, will tell us about his experience on the island of Tuvalu, and with its population, one of the first examples of global environmental refugees, forced migration as a result of the effects of Global Warming.

Professor Joe Smith instead of the Open University will be awarded the Career Prize "Beppe Comin" and will be an opportunity to listen to his remarks at a few days to the climate conference of Copenhagen.

The awards ceremony will take place with the support of Piedmont Region, AMIAT, ERICA soc. coop. and the patronage of the Municipality of Turin.

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A sustainable communication prize, not just in words

Announced today the winners of the AICA Prize of environmental communication 2009 "Communicating with citizens improves Environment”. The prize that highlights from six years the best actions of international environmental communication wants this year, just days before the Climate summit in Copenhagen, give a concrete signal. Two of the three winners will participate in videoconference.
Such choice allows to combine the savings in CO2 emissions, that air travel will inevitably leads, with the commitment in providing excellence in the field of environmental communication, without sacrificing the quality of contents for the public who will attend the award ceremony.
On the morning of December 4 with the support of Piedmont Region, AMIAT, ERICA soc. coop. and the patronage of the Municipality of Turin, will be awarded:

AICA Prize "Communicating with citizens improves Environment. Communicating green innovation", Motel Connection for "H.E.R.O.I.N. - Return of Human Environmental Output / Input Network" project;

Special Prize "Communicating Kyoto Protocol", Panos Pictures for the photo reportage on the island of Tuvalu;

Career Prize "Beppe Comin”, Prof. Joe Smith of the Open University.

The appointment is at 11:30 a.m., December 4 at the Sala delle Colonne of the City of Turin, Piazza Palazzo di Città, 1 – Turin (Italy), Free admission subject to availability.

Info e-mail to: info@assaica.org
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ANNOUNCED TODAY THE FINALISTS OF THE AICA PRIZE 2009 “COMMUNICATING WITH CITIZENS IMPROVES THE ENVIRONMENT”

AICA – International Association for Environmental Communication - announced today the finalists of the 6th edition of the “AICA Prize” for environmental communications.
There are three yearly awards:

“Communicating with citizens improves the environment”
The main award; every year has its own theme: for 2009 it is “Communicating the Green Innovation”.
Finalists:
- Motel Connection, per the project “H.E.R.O.I.N. - Human Environmental Return of Output/Input Network”, cross-medial project throughout music, comics, videogame and ecologic commitment
- “Waterlife” project, website, documentary and community on Great Lakes preservation

“Communicating the Kyoto Protocol”
Special award dedicated to CO2 emissions cutting.
Finalists:
- Panos Pictures, per Tuvalu Island reportage
- Global Warming: Early Warning Signs, a map on climate change scenarios

Career Award (entitled to Mr. Beppe Comin, one of the pioneers of environmental communication in Italy)
Screening is over and the winner for 2009 is Dr. Joe Smith (Open University – BBC).

The award-giving ceremony is scheduled for the first part of December in Turin (Italy): winners, exact location and date will be given as soon as possible.

AICA is an association constituted on January 2003 in Alba (Italy).
It is a cultural project which aims at knowing, studying and promoting national and international environmental communication actions; sharing and comparing campaigns, studying the possible use of media in relation to environmental issues, defining new strategies and collaborating with existing projects.

The evaluation criteria rely on five aspects:
• professional or cultural interest in environmental communication issues;
• both visual and verbal language effectiveness;
• original and innovative use of means of communication;
• choice of communication methods that should not only inform, but manage to inflict real behaviour changes as well;
• ability to reach the most large target possible, promoting positive behaviour models in terms of environmental preservation.

AICA Prize is made with the cooperation of Amiat, E.R.I.C.A. soc. coop. and Municipality of Turin.
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AICA Prize 2008

by Alessio Sciurpa

Was held Friday evening at the Center "G. Arpino, the fifth edition of AICA Prize "Communicating with citizens improves the environment", in collaboration with the City of Bra, Cinemambiente, CONAI, E.R.I.C.A. Soc. coop. and Banco Azzoaglio.

This year's event was dedicated to communicate the environment on television: the prize was awarded to DISCOVERY CHANNEL for the new television program Discovery Green: the Director of Cinemambiente - Environmental Film Festival, has handed Barbara Ferrieri, PR Manager, DISCOVERY CHANNEL.

The Special Prize "Communicating the Kyoto Protocol" has been assigned to PIEMONTE REGION for the "Uniamo le Energie" campaign: Luca Brivio, Communication Manager at CONAI, has delivered the prize to Assessor Sibille representing the Piemonte Region.

This year was also awarded a "SPECIAL PRIZE FOR CAREER" to
Prof. GIOVANNI CESAREO - Member of Scientific Committee of AICA and an expert in television communication.

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