UEFF is a new 3-day film festival screening environmentally-themed international documentary and fiction film and video based at Balivanich Community Hall in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The main themes of the festival will be climate change and sustainability in relation to island and maritime contexts in three strands – what we’ve got, how we stand to lose it & how we can change the situation.

 

Organised by Taigh Chearsabhagh & Sustainable Uist, the festival aims to engender appreciation of landscape and ecology and enhance understanding of the global and local environmental issues through screening of excellent moving image, related talks and events, with ancillary screenings at primary and secondary schools throughout the Uists.

 

We have already confirmed fantastic headline films including the UK premiere of Climate of Change (narrated by Tilda Swinton), The Wild Places of Essex (with Robert Macfarlane) and Cape Farewell’s Art from a Changing Arctic. The festival will encourage debate on sustainability in an island and maritime context during post screening discussions with speakers including Ruth Little (Cape Farewell), Angus Ainsley (Oscar-nominated Waste Land producer) and the prominent Human Ecologist, Alastair Macintosh.

 

April 29 – May 1 2011

Full programme to be confirmed.

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