tve Film Awards 2020

The tve Global Sustainability Film Awards 2020 (tve GSFA) has in partnership with Difficult Dialogues announced winners of eight competitive and two nominated awards. The online awards were announced with four Difficult Dialogues panel discussions on global sustainability as well as the finale of the Daring Debates.

The winning films are:

Documentary Impact: Once You Know (Pulp Films) and Our Planet: Our Business (WWF-UK)

Doing Business Differently: Helping People Put the Planet First (BBC StoryWorks)

Transforming Society: BREEF and Rolex Preserve & Protect Nature (The Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation)

Campaigning: 10 Myths about Deforestation and Food (WWF-UK)

Health and the Environment: A Failure of the Imagination (The Progress Film Company)

Innovations: Turning the Tide (Stramash Films)

Solutions News Story: The Man who grew his own Amazon Rainforest (BBC, People Fixing the World)

Young Filmmaker: Traces (Sébastien Pins)

Founder’s Award: My Octopus Teacher (Directed by Pippa Ehrlich & James Reed)

Artificial Intelligence Award: Coronavirus Pandemic: Making Safer Emergency Hospitals (CineTecture Ltd)

“Selecting the winners is always tough, but this year was even tougher with the quality, range of issues and creativity even higher in 2020 ... hopefully motivating action towards a better world,” said Nick Nuttall, Chair of the jury.  

Difficult Dialogues panels over five days focused on Global Sustainability, and was attended by sustainability experts, filmmakers, businesses, non profits and highlighted the current environmental crisis and suggested solutions.  

“This year going virtual over five days gave us more time to provide a better experience for filmmakers and the visibility to showcase our youth ambassadors and their work,” said Surina Narula, MBE, Founder of Difficult Dialogues and the tve GSFA.   

The winners of Daring Debates which featured the college finalists from India, Nepal, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Africa, USA and Sri Lanka were also announced. Gloria Oziohu Alonge from University of Lagos, Nigeria, was declared winner for the motion while Aditya Dhar from Harvard University won against the motion.