Why doesn FLEFF look like a traditional environmental film festival?
Good question. And if you are asking this question, then FLEFF is doing its job to spur you to interrogate and probe the concept and the construct of “the environment.” We’d ask another question. What in fact IS a “traditional environmental film festival”? Many people assume that the term environmental refers to a very confined view of nature, pollutants, and protection of natural resources. FLEFF’s programming philosophy moves beyhind this limited (and frequently considered a developed first world point of view) position and embraces a broader matrix of interconnecting issues that help us to map sustainability from an international perspective. This wider view entails exploring the interconnections between humans and the environment, looking beyond an exclusive focus on nature and natural resources to larger contextual issues of labor, human rights, war, indigenous rights, culture, technology, public policy, and beyond. FLEFF explores an environmental way of thinking that looks for co
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