Forests

Winners announced!

The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), Jackson Wild, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have teamed up to organize an international film showcase focusing on the immense value of our planet’s forests, their extensive ecosystem services and the millions of human livelihoods they sustain. The Film Showcase will be one of the global events that will accompany the UN World Wildlife Day (3 March) celebrations and help illustrate its theme: Forests and livelihoods: sustaining people and planet

We are thrilled to announce the winners of the World Wildlife Day Film Showcase: Forests! This year was a record setting showcase with over 275 films entered from all over the world.
A special thank you to the judges – professional filmmakers, scientists and stakeholders from around the world – who screened approximately 750 hours of film collectively to select the finalists and winners.

2021 World Wildlife Day Film Showcase: Forests finalist & winning films will be screened for free on our virtual platform, spreading the message that the forests are pillars of humanity’s social and economic well-being, as well as key elements of the planet’s environmental health and biological diversity.

Watch films at our free virtual showcase

People & Forests: Long Form

People & Forests: Short Form

My Forest: Long Form

My Forest: Short Form

Future of Forests: Long Form

Sponsored by: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

WINNER
After the Wildfires
Northern Pictures for ABC, CBC, Love Nature and Blue Ant International

Eyes In The Forest
Google VizLab

River of Gold
An Amazon Aid Foundation Production in association with Uber Content

The Lost Forest
Grain Media, Rideback Films, The Nobel Prize

Trees, a Global Superpower
Hauteville Productions In Coproduction with INRAE, with the participation of France Télévisions, Planète +, CNC, Procirep/Angoa, International sales: France TV distribution

Future of Forests: Short Form

Sponsored by: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

WINNER
How Old Cell Phones Are Protecting the Rainforest
Seeker Media

How To Get Grizzly Bears the Space They Need to Survive
Seeker Media

Our Planet - How to Restore Our Forests
Silverback Films, Netflix, WWF UK

Reforestation Alert
If Not Us Then Who

Living Forests: Long Form

Sponsored by: HHMI Tangled Bank Studios

WINNER
Earth's Tropical Islands: Borneo
BBC Studios Natural History Unit, PBS

Planet Earth II: Jungles
BBC Studios Natural History Unit, BBC America, ZDF, Tencent, France Televisons

The Magical Four - Our Seasons
Marco Polo Film AG in collaboration with WDR

Tiny World - Woodland
Plimsoll Productions

Unknown Madagascar - Forest of the Indri
A Film by Thomas Behrend / Blueplanetfilm produced by Doclights GmbH in association with NDR, ARTE, ORF

Living Forests: Short Form

Sponsored by: HHMI Tangled Bank Studios

WINNER
Chasing Ghosts
Grizzly Creek Films, bioGraphic

WINNER
Memories of the Future
a Mares Mexicanos production

Protecting Nature for Good
Day's Edge Productions for World Wildlife Fund

The Golden Lion Tamarins of Poco Das Antas
National Geographic Society

Forest Micro Movie

Special Jury Award

The Man Who Planted a Forest received a Special Jury Award this year for artfully expressing the healing power of forests, a lifelong commitment to conservation and reminding us all that each individual person can make a difference in the fight to protect nature and the resources it provides for future generations.