IMPORTANT - -> DOCUMENTARIES NOT BEEN PRODUCED OR CO-PRODUCED IN MEXICO DURING 2017/2018 WILL NOT BE ADMITTED AT THE FESTIVAL,
FICMA MX (International Environmental Film Festival of Mexico) it’s been runing now for 9 years in Mexico, and is co organized with ACCIONS 3E UN Environment of Mexico and the CANACINTRA Foundation.
The Festival has among its main objectives: the environmental AWARENESS and EDUCATION to arrive to ALL CITIZENSHIP, with films and audiovisual as a tool and to PROMOTE and HELP the PRODUCTION of Mexican Films
Having a successful ITINERANCE FOR MORE THAN 40 CITIES in the country-reaching more than 30 thousand spectators in its last edition FICMA MX will program documentaries and films of the latest Barcelona FICMA Edition (25 years old Festival and the oldest one in the world in terms of the environment) and also it will include documentaries produced or co-produced with Mexico, which are the ones that are convened in this contest.
The IMCINE (Mexican Institute of Cinematography) and other government entities and civilians, provide us an strategic and permanent collaboration, allowing us to be the environmental Festival of reference in the country.
This year 2018, FICMA MX launches the contest with the highest Environmental Film Awards for a documentary of the country (60.000 MX$) to all those productions made in Mexico between the years 2017/2018 telling us different environmental situations in Mexico: Climate change , Water, New Energies, Biodiversity, Human rights, Animal rights, Oceans, Waste, Forests, Sotenibility, Pollution, Health, Food, among others.
FICMA MX "gives voice" at the Mexican cinema, its filmmakers and producers who produce and are committed through the cinema and talk to us about such important and rigorous issues and current affairs.
On June 5 (World Environment Day), with important monetary prizes, the winning documentary will be awarded access to the pre-selection of the 25th International Environmental Film Festival (FICMA) in Barcelona, from November 1 to 9, 2018.
The most important premieres of environmental cinema have a FESTIVAL recognized by great personalities from the Cinema and Environment world: Jane Goodall, Daryl Hannah, Yan Arthus Bertrand, Martin Sheen, Daphne Zuniga, among many others. This Festival is FICMA.
