London Eco Film Festival

PC*: Ground 0 Inspiring ethical living one film at a time *Post Covid We have changed our date! The LEFF will now be hosted on 27th February 2022! Submissions for our 2022 event are now open! Thank you to everyone who was involved in our virtual 2020 event. We were lucky enough to be joined online by some of the world's best filmmakers, raising awareness and facilitating action on the world's current environmental and cultural issues. For our 2022 edition we will be back in a theatre in London on February 27th, in a similar style to our extremely successful 2019 event. Please watch our 2019 highlights film now: https://vimeo.com/386495327 The London Eco Film Festival 2022 - LEFF22 - is an inspirational event which aims to bring together all the eco organisations and storytellers from around the world, to celebrate and accelerate solutions for environmental, cultural and humanitarian issues. This year our focus is on stories from those who have struggled through lockdown, and we want to highlight the heroes of the pandemic. The covid pandemic brought the whole world to a halt; the individual lives and functioning of communities, production and transportation systems. It also gave the world a breather; it allowed people to take a time out, and to look at the lives they have been living up until that point. Many people rediscovered their creative identities as they broke out of their everyday lives and were forced to sit with themselves. While for many of us it has been a time of reflection and revision on how to go forward without falling into the same pattern, for many, if not most, it has also been one of the loneliest times they have ever experienced. While many wonder when will the world go back to "normal" again, many others hope it never will, because much of how we used to live was nothing close to normal. Excessive consumerism, mass production, segregation, and a class system based on the type of work you do, as well as the accompanying excruciatingly long work weeks isn't what people want to go back to anymore. For this year, we have identified 10 submission categories, and for each of them we are welcoming film and photography submissions presented as a reflection or realisation of life before the pandemic, how things have changed for better or worse as well as how we as people, could change for the better. We seek to inspire ethical living by elevating awareness of global struggles and triumphs alike. The LEFF aims to educate all citizens of the world, giving them a change to meet likeminded individuals and learn from experts in their fields to take the knowledge back to their own countries, homes and communities. We want to help transform our world into one that is more ethical, more safe and more sustainable for centuries to come. Education truly is the underlying foundation for any kinds of changes. We hope that the festival will foster more collaboration and ignite a public passion towards protecting the environment. And guess what? It is (and always will be) free and open to the public! Students, families and children are all welcome!