Australia Independent Film Festival invests in reforestation.

The Australia Independent Film Festival is an annual Australian film festival that was founded in February 2018 by Brisbane filmmakers Richard Lawton and Jeremy Rigby. They had a shared dream of creating a film festival built on trust, openness and communication that would showcase and celebrate the very best in independent cinema from Australia and around the world.

Known as “the festival where stars shine,” the Australia Independent Film Festival (AIFF) is on track to become Australia's premiere short film festival.

To offset the carbon footprint of their upcoming edition the festival directors decided to plant 100 trees with Tree Plan.

50 trees were planted by Mama Earth Foundation in the Philippines

More information on Australia Independent Film Festival: https://www.ausindefest.com 

Global Film Festival Group Team Up to Plant 10K Trees.

Cinematory LLC, Velvet Room & The Bigger Screen has teamed up to offset their carbon footprint.

Together, the three companies have more than 20 film events scheduled for the year 2024. These events include leading film festivals such as the Brussels Independent Film Festival, the Boston Short Film Festival, the Venice Film Week, the Manhattan Independent Film Festival, the Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival, The Producer's Night Los Angeles, Doc.Berlin, Super Shorts Film Festival, and many more.

Each year the two companies calculate the carbon footprint of their projects and compensates this with planting trees through Treeplan.org.

The calculation includes the duration of the events, the number of participants, the number of staff, the heated area, the air conditioned area, how the participants arrive at the event, whether the participants had overnight stays, catering, the power consumption and how much of this is green energy, printed material, use of plastics, use of recyclable material and the produced waste.

The total amount of 10,000 trees are going to be planted with the following project: MWITO SELF HELP GROUP in Kenya.

Maarten Cornelis (Cinematory) on working together with Treeplan.org "Treeplan.org is very efficient when it comes to putting intentions into action. They've assisted us with converting our carbon footprint to offsetting it with planting trees. They work with reforestation projects all over the world making it possible to choose within these projects according to your available budget".

Natuurpunt creates 700 ha of new forests in Flanders, Belgium.

Natuurpunt is a Flemish NGO dedicated to nature conservation for more than half a century. We specialise in creating and managing nature reserves. We manage 26.000 ha of nature in Flanders at this moment. To do this we can count on several professional field teams and on many thousands of volunteers, who make out the very heart of our organisation. We organise courses, field trips, walks; we study nature and gather scientific information; we give nature a voice when talking to local and national politicians and other organisations. We have gathered a lot of experience in what we do. The government and even the European Commission see us as a reliable partner. They grant us subsidies and projects. 123.000 families are member of our organization and pay an annual contribution to support our work. Urgency Forests everywhere in the world are having a difficult time. Flanders is the less wooded region in Europe. Only 11% of our region is wooded. The existing woods are getting smaller and less biodiverse. That is a problem because woods can play an important part in tackling climate change. They capture carbon dioxide, produce oxygen, retain water and regulate temperature. That is why Natuurpunt has made the commitment to create 700 ha of woods in Flanders by 2024. That means 1.750.000 trees! Half of it will be planted, the other half will be natural regeneration. LONG TERM PROTECTION

Natuurpunt owns this land, So we can ensure that this will stay a forest. Our local volunteers check it regularly and monitor the growth. Start planting.