Mozambique: SERNIC arrests two for poaching
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A Mozambican documentary about the hard training that men and women undergo to become rangers in the country’s Gorongosa National Park called ‘On The Front Line’ has won the top ‘Golden Sun’ award of the XXV edition of the International Environmental Film Festival (FICMA), in Barcelona, Spain.
The Festival, which has celebrated its twenty-fifth edition and which has shown more than 120 films from around forty countries, was held in Barcelona from November 2 to 9.
The winning film is directed by the Italian-Argentine Carla Ribal and American James Byrne, the organisation announced in a communique on Friday.
Jury member Anna Mulà said about ‘On the Front Line: The Rangers of Gorongosa National Park’ that “rigour in the staging directs the viewer to the serious problem of poaching and its impact on the conservation of species”.
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The Bulgarian film ‘Invisible Strings’ by Antoni Krastev and Borislav Karamelski, won the Planeta prize, the jury noting that “it is a profound reflection that places us in an interconnected and interdependent system, which reaffirms how modern life depends on telecommunications, technology that takes us further and further away from nature”.
The “Special Golden Sun” award went to “Eating Animals”, directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn and produced and narrated by actress Natalie Portman, in which the ethics of industrial agriculture is questioned.
A posthumous ‘Sol de Oro’ was awarded to Canadian filmmaker and activist Rob Stewart, who died in 2017 while filming the sequel of the award-winning ‘Sharkwater’. The Italian short film ‘7.83 Hz’, directed by Theo Putzu, received the ‘Miradas’ award for the best short documentary film.
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