Giving Nature A Voice, a series of environmental documentaries produced by East African filmmakers working with AKU’s Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC), has won one of the top awards at the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF).
Giving Nature A Voice won the non-fiction TV Series category which featured submissions from countries across Africa.
The series, which has been broadcast during primetime on Kenya’s NTV since 2017, has featured in-depth reports on Africa’s most urgent environmental crises. From the threat posed by
plastic pollution to Kenya’s coastline, to how climate change is affecting East Africa’s Great Lakes, to the need to conserve endangered species such as the black rhinos of Kenya and the mountain gorillas of Rwanda; Giving Nature A Voice has fostered public debate and mobilized action to defend East Africa’s wildlife and environment.
Emmy Award winning filmmaker Andrew Tkach attended the event and spoke of the importance of documentaries on ecological issues .
“Environmental reporting is generally sporadic and lacks the nuance, scientific context and emotion that moves people to make a change,” said Mr Tkach. “Through Giving Nature A Voice we trained local journalists to research and produce compelling in-depth reports on the region’s most urgent environmental crises.
“Their documentaries added insight and context to contemporary issues that helped people understand how ecological destruction is degrading their own lives and is undermining a whole range of species that rely on the environmental for their survival.”
This year’s ZIFF saw a record number of submissions with filmmakers from over 140 countries sending in over 4,000 films across seven categories for consideration by judges.
Giving Nature A Voice, a series of environmental documentaries produced by East African filmmakers working with AKU’s Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC), has won one of the top awards at the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF).
Giving Nature A Voice won the non-fiction TV Series category which featured submissions from countries across Africa.
The series, which has been broadcast during primetime on Kenya’s NTV since 2017, has featured in-depth reports on Africa’s most urgent environmental crises. From the threat posed by
plastic pollution to Kenya’s coastline, to how climate change is affecting East Africa’s Great Lakes, to the need to conserve endangered species such as the black rhinos of Kenya and the mountain gorillas of Rwanda; Giving Nature A Voice has fostered public debate and mobilized action to defend East Africa’s wildlife and environment.
Emmy Award winning filmmaker Andrew Tkach attended the event and spoke of the importance of documentaries on ecological issues .
“Environmental reporting is generally sporadic and lacks the nuance, scientific context and emotion that moves people to make a change,” said Mr Tkach. “Through Giving Nature A Voice we trained local journalists to research and produce compelling in-depth reports on the region’s most urgent environmental crises.
“Their documentaries added insight and context to contemporary issues that helped people understand how ecological destruction is degrading their own lives and is undermining a whole range of species that rely on the environmental for their survival.”
This year’s ZIFF saw a record number of submissions with filmmakers from over 140 countries sending in over 4,000 films across seven categories for consideration by judges.