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World Wildlife Day Film Showcase 

Forests
Watch films at our free virtual showcase

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

Sponsored by: National Geographic
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WINNER
Backyard Wilderness

Archipelago Films, Arise Media, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, SK Films and Reconsider
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Australia's Great Wild North
Wild Pacific Media, Definition Films​
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Call of the Forest: The Forgotten Wisdom of Trees
Merit Motion Pictures, Edgeland Films
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Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure : Episode 1
Atlantic Productions for discovery+​

People & Forests: Short Form

Sponsored by: National Geographic
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WINNER
The Church Forests of Ethiopia

Emergence Magazine​
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Traces
Alchimie Productions, Sébastien Pins​
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Water Logged​
Ramshackle Pictures​

My Forest: Long Form

Sponsored by: Fable & Mane
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WINNER
Mundiya Kepanga, the voice of the forest

ARTE France and Muriel Barra / Lato Sensu productions​
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Death by a Thousand Cuts
Participant and Documentales Univision present a Tarasios Production in association with Human Pictures
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Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest
Happen Films
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Great Bear Rainforest
Spirit Bear Entertainment & MacGillivray Freeman Films​
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Sacred Forest
Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation

My Forest: Short Form

Sponsored by: Fable & Mane
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WINNER
Ulin

Leo Plunkett, Environmental Investigation Agency
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Arunachal Virtual Archive
National Geographic Society, Arunachal Pradesh Forest Department
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The Guardians of Dampa
Green Hub (NEN - DFF), Dampa Tiger Reserve​
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Think Like a Scientist: Renewal
Plumb Productions, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios

Future of Forests: Long Form

Sponsored by: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
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WINNER
After the Wildfires

Northern Pictures for ABC, CBC, Love Nature and Blue Ant International
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Eyes In The Forest
Google VizLab
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River of Gold
An Amazon Aid Foundation Production in association with Uber Content
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The Lost Forest
Grain Media, Rideback Films, The Nobel Prize
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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
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WINNER
How Old Cell Phones Are Protecting the Rainforest

Seeker Media​
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How To Get Grizzly Bears the Space They Need to Survive
Seeker Media
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Our Planet - How to Restore Our Forests
Silverback Films, Netflix, WWF UK
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Reforestation Alert
If Not Us Then Who

Living Forests: Long Form

Sponsored by: HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
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WINNER
Earth's Tropical Islands: Borneo

BBC Studios Natural History Unit, PBS
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Planet Earth II: Jungles
BBC Studios Natural History Unit, BBC America, ZDF, Tencent, France Televisons
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The Magical Four - Our Seasons
Marco Polo Film AG in collaboration with WDR
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Tiny World - Woodland
Plimsoll Productions
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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
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WINNER
Chasing Ghosts

Grizzly Creek Films, bioGraphic
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WINNER
Memories of the Future

a Mares Mexicanos production
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Protecting Nature for Good
Day's Edge Productions for World Wildlife Fund
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The Golden Lion Tamarins of Poco Das Antas
National Geographic Society

Forest Micro Movie

Sponsored by: WaterBear Network
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WINNER
Gajah Borneo

Shervin Hess, Oregon Zoo
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#WildForLife Forest Champion: Mount Kenya Trust
UN Environment, Joan Manuel Poggio, PCI Media​
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Koa Talking to Me
Harpers Ferry Center & Haleakalā National Park, National Park Service
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The Man Who Planted A Forest
101India Digital Services

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. 
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The Man Who Planted A Forest
101India Digital Services

Honorable Mentions

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Alianza Ceibo: Equator Prize Winner of 2020
UNDP Equator Initiative, What Took You So Long
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Can Farms and Forests Coexist?
Produced by Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios
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Clatter
Rémi Rappe
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Eeya
House Tiger Productions
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If We Plant 1 TRILLION Trees Can We Stop Climate Change?
Produced by Spotzen for PBS Digital Studios
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Jungle Guardian
Doclights GmbH / NDR Naturfilm
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Moss Man
Tilapia Film, Topic Studio
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Primary Forests
Rojo Visuals and Wild Heritage for IntAct - International Action for Primary Forests
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Rearing Giants
Green Hub (NEN - DFF)​
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Rise of the Warrior Apes
KEO Films for Discovery Network International
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Sungai Utik -The Fight for Recognition
If Not Us Then Who
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The Ogieks; Guardians of the Mau Forest
Maurice Oniang'o

Watch the full World Wildlife Day Film Showcase Awards:

2021 World Wildlife Day Film Showcase Awards from Jackson Wild on Vimeo.

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