NaturVision
NaturVision a nature and environment film festival . It originally started in 2002 in Neuschönau in the Bavarian Forest and has been taking place in Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg since 2012 . The venue is the Central Theater Ludwigsburg. Since 2014 there has also been a free open-air cinema, a market with regional and sustainable stalls, information stands and a science slam during the festival days.
The festival
Film competition
The heart of the festival is the international film competition. In addition to nature and animal films, the festival places a strong emphasis on environmental and sustainability issues. In addition to the “German Environmental and Sustainability Film Prize”, the “German Wildlife Film Prize” and the “German Biodiversity Film Prize” are awarded by NaturVision - prizes in other categories such as camera, dramaturgy, film music, children's film and the audience award are part of the competition categories and the award ceremony. In 2017, prize money totaling 46,000 euros was awarded in five prize categories for the first time.
Special topic
Every year the festival is dedicated to a certain special topic that is presented in films, lectures and special events. In recent years, the focus has been on topics such as “Soil & Water” or renewable energy. Since 2015, under the motto “Islands of the Future”, solutions to global problems have been sought and presented in a cycle lasting several years.
Environmental education
Another area of activity of the NaturVision Film Festival is youth environmental education. In the run-up to the festival, there are school programs in many cities in Baden-Württemberg to which experts or filmmakers are invited. At the youth media workshops “Film and Talk”, experts show school classes films on sustainable topics, while the teacher workshops teach the basics of media work with children and young people. During the festival days, in addition to the school program and childcare, a children's film program for all ages is offered. In the film competition, a special youth jury chooses their favorite and presents their decision at the big award gala. In order to fight at the cultural-political level to ensure that environmental education can be pursued through the festival, NaturVision was also one of the founding members of the Association of Bavarian Film Festivals in 2014.
Industry get-together and best-of events
The festival also functions as an industry get-together that offers workshops and opportunities for meeting filmmakers, media representatives and other cultural workers. Producers and filmmakers have the opportunity to come into contact with one another and with the audience. NaturVision is committed to supporting and promoting the nature and environmental film genre. For example, best-of events, which take place primarily in Switzerland, serve this purpose.
Photo competition "Natural treasures of Europe"
Together with Euronatur , the magazine natur and Gelsenwasser , NaturVision is promoting the photo competition “Natural Treasures of Europe”. The results are summarized every year in the exhibition “Fascination Nature”, which can be seen in various locations.
history
NaturVision was launched in 2002 by Ralph Thoms and took place every year in the Bavarian Forest National Park in Neuschönau. Due to the location's proximity to the border, there has been a cooperation with the Czech city of Vimperk since the beginning of the festival .
As early as 2008 - as part of the Sino-German Year of Science and Education - a cooperation with China began . In the workshops of the NaturVision Film Festival, an exchange between German and Chinese filmmakers took place for the first time.
In 2012, the festival changed its location for financial reasons and started again in Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg. In the metropolitan region around Stuttgart it has been growing steadily since then and was able to record over 13,000 spectators in 2016. The venue for the festival is the Central Theater Ludwigsburg. The comprehensive supporting program extends to the entire city - from the open air on Arsenalplatz to the NaturVision Science Slam, which will be held in 2015 in the film gallery of the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy and from 2017 in the rooms of the Ludwigsburg State Archives.
In the Bavarian Forest there has been the NaturVision Film Days since 2012, which take place in the Hans-Eisenmann-Haus in Neuschönau. In addition to the highlights of the festival in Ludwigsburg, the HeimatSachen series also presents films that are of particular interest to the region. The special thing about the film days is the location's proximity to nature; films about nature in nature - more precisely an open-air cinema set up in the forest - are presented. NaturVision also conducts environmental education for young people in the Bavarian Forest: the ideas competition “School film: Of course!” Is organized together with Bayernwerk AG ; A school program before and during the competition invites schoolchildren to find out more about the environment and sustainability.
Patron and supporter
The patron of the NaturVision Film Festival has been Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) since 2013. For him, the main focus at NaturVision is environmental education:
"The NaturVision Film Festival marks the important interface between media and environmental education - here the passions for film and for nature go hand in hand."
The godfather is also the German actor Andreas Hoppe , who is known among other things as a crime scene commissioner. He is committed to animal welfare projects and the use of regional foods. Another prominent guest and supporter of the festival is actor Hannes Jaenicke , whose production "Hannes Jaenicke: Im Einsatz für ...." Was awarded the "NaturVision Film Festival Special Prize" for the first time in 2014 by the festival management.
Award winners
2012
- Big NaturVision Film Prize - 1st prize: “Life Size Memories”, director: from Reisinger, Frédérique Lengaigne. Austria 2011.
- Big NaturVision Film Prize - 2nd Prize: "Wild Germany - Saxon Switzerland", director: Henry M. Mix. Germany 2011.
- German environmental and sustainability award: "Raising Resistance", directors: Bettina Borgfeld, David Bernet. Germany / Switzerland 2011
- NaturVision camera award: "The colors of the desert - The white Uyuni", camera: Adrian Bailey. Austria 2013.
- NaturVision children's program: "SOS Sevan", director: SunChild Eco-Club of Noratus. Armenia 2011.
- NaturVision Young Talent and Amateur Film Award: “Grandmother and the Wolf”, director: Andreas Schnögl. Germany 2011.
- Special prize from the city of Ludwigsburg and NaturVision prize from the youth jury: “Bottled Life”, director: Urs Schnell. Switzerland 2011.
- NaturVision honorary award of the jury: "Undercover against the wood mafia", director: Michaela Kirst. Germany 2011.
- NaturVision Audience Award: “Highway through the Rocky Mountains - Autumn”, directors: nst Arendt, Hans Schweiger. Germany 2012.
2013
- Big NaturVision Film Prize - 1st Prize: “The Unlikely Leopard”, directed by Dereck & Beverly Joubert. South Africa 2012.
- Big NaturVision Film Prize - 2nd Prize: "Wild Germany - The Lausitz", director: Henry M. Mix. Germany 2013.
- German Environment and Sustainability Award - 1st Prize: “The Last Catch”, director: Markus CM Schmidt. Germany 2012.
- German Environment and Sustainability Award - 2nd Prize: "On quiet paws - Spain's last lynx", director: Klaus Feichtenberger. Austria 2012.
- NaturVision camera award: "Foray of the zebras", camera: Adrian Bailey. Austria 2013.
- NaturVision best story: "The Arctic Giant", author: Peter Lauridsen. Denmark 2013.
- NaturVision Children's Film Award: “Hassani and his whale sharks”, director: Frank Feustle. Germany 2013.
- NaturVision Newcomer Film Award: “San Agustín - Ebbe im Plastikmeer”, directed by Gudrun Gruber, Alexander Hick, Michael Schmitt. Germany 2012.
- NaturVision special prize of the jury: "Breathing Earth - Susumu Shingus Traum", director: Thomas Riedelsheimer. Germany 2012.
- NaturVision Prize of the Youth Jury: "Die Weltretter 3.0", Director: Jana Lemme. Germany 2012.
- NaturVision Audience Award: “The Last Catch”, director: Markus CM Schmidt. Germany 2012.
- NaturVision Honorary Award: “One Man's Desert”, director: Fan Zhiyuan. China 2011.
2014
- Grand NaturVision Film Prize - 1st Prize: “The Greater Caucasus - Russia's Roof of the World”, director: Henry Mix. Germany 2014.
- Big NaturVision Film Prize - 2nd Prize: "Bumblebees - Bees in Furs", director: Kurt Mündl. Austria 2013.
- German Environment and Sustainability Award - 1st prize: “How does the city get fed up? - The fight for the food markets of the future ”, directed by Irja Martens. Germany 2013.
- German Environment and Sustainability Award - 2nd Prize: “My aunt from Fukushima”, director: Kyoko Miyake. Germany 2013.
- NaturVision Camera Prize: "Carousel of Life - The Orchard Meadow", Camera: Alexandra Sailer, Steffen Sailer, Klaus Scheurich, Boas Schwarz. Germany 2014.
- NaturVision best story: "The Second Wave", author: Folke Ryden. Sweden 2013.
- NaturVision Music Film Prize - 1st Prize: "Myth of the Congo - River of Extreme", music: Oliver Heuss. Germany 2014.
- NaturVision Music Film Prize - 2nd Prize: “The Greater Caucasus - Russia's Roof of the World”, music: Jörg Magnus Pfeil. Germany 2014.
- NaturVision Children's Film Award: "Newton - The Rhino Ranger", director: Frank Feustle. Germany 2014.
- NaturVision Newcomer Film Award: “With different eyes - the story of horse and man”, director: Lena Leonhardt. Germany 2013.
- NaturVision Special Prize of the Jury [Category: Biodiversity]: “The Conquerors - The King Crab”, director: Nicolas Gabriel. France 2013.
- NaturVision special award: "Hannes Jaenicke in action for elephants", directors: Judith Adloch, Eva Gfirtner. Germany 2014.
- NaturVision Prize of the youth jury: "The last of their kind - Rescue of the gold-headed gangs", director: Hannes Schuler. Germany 2013.
- NaturVision audience award: “Super brains in plumage - clever birds in a duel”, director: Volker Arzt. Germany 2013.
2015
- German environmental and sustainability award: “The Last Raubzug”, director: Jakob Kneser . Germany 2014.
- NaturVision Wildlife Film Award: "Wild Brazil - The Wild Heart", Production: Terra Mater Factual Studios. Germany 2015.
- NaturVision Film Prize Biodiversity: “Bees - A Changing World”, director: Dennis Wells. Germany / Austria / USA 2015.
- NaturVision Camera Prize: "Wild Canada - The Far North", Camera: Jeff Turner, Justin Maguire. Austria 2014.
- NaturVision best story: "Triumph of the tomato", author: Maria Magdalena Koller. Austria 2014.
- NaturVision Music Film Award: "When a Garden Grows", Music: Thomas Höhl. Germany 2014.
- NaturVision Children's Film Award: "Jessica - The Indian girl from the Amazon", director: Alexander Preuss. Germany 2014.
- NaturVision special prize of the jury: "Wild Slovakia", director: Jan Haft. Germany 2015.
- NaturVision Prize of the Youth Jury: "Bees - A Changing World", Director: Dennis Wells. Germany / Austria / USA 2015.
- NaturVision audience award: "Wilhelminenhof - Fruit growers with a bite", directed by Vivien Pieper, Johannes Bünger. Germany 2014.
- NaturVision Honorary Award: Kurt Hirschel for his life's work
2016
- German environmental and sustainability award: “Wastecooking - Cooking instead of wasting”, director: Georg Misch. Austria 2015.
- NaturVision Wildlife Film Award: “The journey of the snowy owls - a winter fairy tale”, director: Klaus Weißmann. Germany 2015.
- NaturVision Film Prize Biodiversity: "The Yellowstone Riddle", director: Manfred Corrine. Germany 2015.
- NaturVision camera award: "Back to the primeval forest - Kalkalpen National Park", camera: Jiri Petr, Michael Schlamberger. Austria 2015.
- NaturVision best story: "Where our weather is made", author: Rolf Schlenker. Germany 2016.
- NaturVision Music Film Award: “Magic of the Moors”, music: Jörg Magnus Pfeil, Siggi Mueller. Germany 2015.
- NaturVision Children's Film Award: “Lotumi and the Red Dance”, director: Frank Feustle Germany 2015.
- NaturVision Newcomer Film Award: “Passion for Planet”, director: Werner Schuessler, director: Jan Haft. Germany 2016.
- NaturVision Prize of the Youth Jury: "Wild Germany: The Chiemsee", director: Jan Haft. Germany 2015.
- NaturVision audience award: “On the trail of the coastal wolves”, director: Richard Matthews. Germany 2007.
2017
- German environmental and sustainability award: “Insects - Superheroes on six legs”, director: Björn Platz. Germany 2016.
- German Wildlife Film Award: "Ethiopia - In the highlands of the wolves", director: Yann Sochaczewski. Germany 2017.
- German Biodiversity Film Award: “Natura Urbana - the fallows of Berlin”, director: Matthew Gandy. Germany, UK 2017.
- NaturVision Special Prize The City and the Sea: "Black Tears of the Seas", director: Christian Heynen. Germany 2017.
- NaturVision special prize of the jury: "Islands like paradise: The rule of the sun", directed by Matt Hamilton, Paul Reddish. Austria 2017.
- NaturVision camera award: “Bee Maja's wild sisters”, director: Jan Haft. Germany 2016.
- NaturVision best story: "Small People - Big Trees", director: Vadim Vitovtsev. Russia 2016.
- NaturVision Film Music Prize: “Budapest Inferno - The Secret of the Molnár János Cave”, music: Peter Rusko, Marton Szekely. Hungary 2017.
- NaturVision Children's Film Award: "Anna and the wild animals - The pine cone", director: Ben Wolter. Germany 2016.
- NaturVision Newcomer Film Award: “Dog Soldiers”, director: Lena Leonhardt. Germany 2016.
- NaturVision Prize of the Youth Jury: "Insects - Superheroes on six legs", director: Björn Platz. Germany 2016.
- NaturVision audience award: “Dreaming of banana trees”, director: Anthe Hubert. Germany 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart, Germany: Naturvision in Ludwigsburg: "We want to encourage" . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de . ( stuttgarter-zeitung.de [accessed December 15, 2017]).
- ↑ NaturVision Science Slam. Retrieved March 25, 2015 .
- ↑ National Geographic Germany: NaturVision crowns its winners. (No longer available online.) July 9, 2012, archived from the original on September 27, 2016 ; Retrieved March 25, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ NaturVision media workshops. Retrieved March 25, 2015 .
- ^ Film festival NaturVision in Ludwigsburg. 2012, accessed March 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Short Film Week : Press release January 14, 2014. Foundation of the Association of Bavarian Film Festivals. (PDF) January 14, 2014, accessed on January 22, 2015 .
- ↑ Natural History Museum Basel: Film Off to the Museum. 2014, accessed March 12, 2015 .
- ^ Federal Ministry for Research and Education: Final report of the Sino-German Year of Science and Education. (PDF) Retrieved March 12, 2015 (2009/2010).
- ↑ NaturVision contribution on RegioWiki - Niederbayern and Altötting
- ↑ quoted from the NaturVision homepage, 2014 ( memento of the original from April 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Prize winners 2013, PDF. (PDF) Retrieved February 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Winner 2014, PDF. (PDF) Retrieved February 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Prize winners 2015, PDF. (PDF) Retrieved February 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Prize winners of the Int. NaturVision film competition - REGIE.DE. July 27, 2015, accessed September 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Prize Winners 2016, PDF , accessed on September 30, 2016 (German)
- ^ Winner of the 15th International NaturVision Film Competition. Professional Production, July 25, 2016, accessed September 30, 2016 .
- ↑ wastecooking. Retrieved March 20, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Bayerischer Rundfunk: NaturVision Film Festival: BR co-productions awarded | BR.de. August 2, 2016, accessed September 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Naturvision Filmfestival 2016. Youth initiative of the Baden-Württemberg Sustainability Strategy , accessed on September 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Winner of the 16th NaturVision Film Festival 2017. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on July 24, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
