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Call for films launch for the 2013 edition of the Deauville Green Awards

The second edition of the Deauville Green Awards will be held from April 16 to 18, 2013. This international festival, dedicated to corporate and TV films about ecology and sustainable development, aims at promoting good practices through audio-visual communication from companies, institutions and local authorities that have made a commitment toward the environment.

"This year's event gathered nearly 170 competing films from 14 countries. Among the jury were a dozen key figures such as Valérie Martin, head of the Communication and Information at the French Environment and Energy Management Agency, Bernard Emsellem, director of eco-mobility at France's public railroad company, Béatrice Delemasure, director of communication at the French ministry of ecology and sustainable development, and Jacques-Olivier Barthes, director of communication at WWF France," explains festival co-founder Jean-Charles Pentecouteau.

This year, the festival's jury awarded the grand prize for best audio-visual environmental corporate policy to Light Close to Everyone, a German film sponsored by SIEMENS AG and produced by LavaFilms, and the grand prize for best audio-visual environmental institutional policy was awarded to the Belgian film Pour une région en mouvement, sponsored by the city of Brussels and produced by DoubleDouble.

The event took place in some of the most prestigious locations in the city of Deauville (Salon des Ambassadeurs, Villa Le Cerle, Villa Strassburger). Leaders in the audio-visual communication industry benefited from these great venues to meet and exchange ideas on their respective projects. 

Building on the success of this first edition, the organisers are already announcing the call for films for the 2013 edition of the Deauville Green Awards. Producers and sponsors can submit their programs (institutional films, advertising campaigns and TV documentaries) to compete in one of 12 categories:

-       Climate Change & Society

-       Renewable Energy & Sustainable Technologies

-       Transportation & Eco-Mobility

-       Health & Lifestyles

-       Agriculture & Green Economics

-       Housing & Eco-Innovation

-       Eco-Tourism & Sustainable Nature

-       Sustainable Producing and Consuming

-       Corporate Social Responsibility

-       Economics & Ecology

-       Innovation & Post-Industrial Ecosystems

-       Corporate Patronage & Humanitarian Help

Registrations can be completed on the website www.deauvillegreenawards.com through the online registration form as well as the FTP upload system for the transmission of video files.

Film registrations for the festival are open until the 3^rd of March 2013. The jury will award gold and silver "Asterias" to the two best productions in each category, and three grand prizes will reward the best direction, the best audio-visual environmental corporate policy, and the best audio-visual environmental institutional policy. Special prizes will also be awarded by the festival's partners…