Spotlighting sustainability

These short films will be shown Dec. 4 at the inaugural InvestmentNews ESG & Impact Forum Film Festival in New York.
OCT 05, 2019
By  Bloomberg
Bee Rescuer Amit Godse, founder of social enterprise Bee Basket, strives to save the world by saving the bees, one of the planet's most laborious and under appreciated insects. Country of origin: India Country of filming: India Director: Bidit Roy [More:ESG data getting better as the market matures] Harvesting Rain Showcasing the positive impact of BIOME Environmental Trusts' work in government schools struggling with water availability in rural Bangalore, India. The project is funded by Wipro Cares. Country of origin: India Country of filming: India Director: Goutham G. Varrier Grow Your House Describing how it's possible to build bamboo houses and return dignified and human spaces to people. Country of origin: Mexico Country of filming:Mexico Directors: Andrés Klimek Pavía, Sergio Donis Jaime Cesar's Workshop Presenting Cesar, a prosthetist in Kigali, Rwanda, who lost part of his leg during the country's brutal civil war, and now earns his living helping others with similar conditions. Country of origin: France Country of filming: Rwanda Director: Robin Pogorzelski Soapmakers of Samabogo Illustrating entrepreneurship and female empowerment, this short film features the soapmakers working from the dusty plains of southern Mali, in the sprawling village of Samabogo. Country of origin: Mali Country of filming: Mali Director: Hannah Stanton-Jones, Tadg O'Keeffe Poko Showcasing CARE's Adaptation Learning Program where the Farfar community in Northern Ghana is learning new ways to farm and adapt to the threat of climate change, which in recent years has caused extreme droughts and bushfires that destroyed large areas of rural land. Country of origin: Denmark Country of filming: Ghana Director: Michael Schmidt-Olsen [More: Vanguard put shares of gun maker in a gun-free ETF] One Island Describing the culture of a small renewable energy island in Denmark with fewer than 4,000 inhabitants, where in 1997, Samsø won a government competition to become a model renewable energy community. Today 100% of its electricity comes from wind and biomass. Country of origin: Denmark Country of filming: Denmark Director: Mitra K. Bolouri Rasmussen The Story of TRU Colors Changing the culture of gang community violence by employing active gang members at a startup brewery in Wilmington, N.C. Country of origin: USA Country of filming: USA Directors: Akeem Grady, Meagan Verdi

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