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Films Awarded
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Wangari Maathai in A Quiet Revolution |
In the U.S.A., Another Way of Seeing Things, a short film challenging media stereotyping, won the 52nd Annual Columbus International Film and Video Festival's Chris Award in its Social Issues division, competing against over 100 entries. The Columbus Film Festival is one of the oldest and most respected in the United States, and the Chris Award is the festival's highest award. As writer of the film's script, Daisaku Ikeda also won the Edgar Dale Award for excellence in documentary screenwriting.
The awards ceremony was held on November 13 at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio, U.S.A.
A Quiet Revolution, an SGI-sponsored documentary on environmental issues, received the Special Festival Award at the 12th International Sports, Tourist and Ecological Film Festival
(MEFEST) in Serbia-Montenegro. The film was selected for the award from among 85 entries from 17 countries.
Focusing on ordinary people in India, Slovakia and Kenya who have positively affected the natural environment on a global scale, the film introduces the 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari
Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement in Kenya, through which Kenyan women have planted more than 30 million trees.
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