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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.
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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.[1][2]
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 - Score: A Hockey Musical 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[3]
- Spoil, directed by Trip Jennings and Andy Maser
Canadian premieres
- Revenge of the Electric Car (Opening Night Gala Presentation), directed by Chris Paine[4]
- The Whale (Closing Night Gala Presentation), directed by Suzanne Chisholm[4]
- Future of Hope, directed by Henry Bateman
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, directed by Werner Herzog[3]
- 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[4]
- 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[4]
- 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
- Blue Gold: World Water Wars, 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 Daddy’s 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 O’Brien, 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
- Ma’rib, 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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