Global Sustainability Film Awards 04 winners

Winners of tve Global Sustainability Film Awards 2014, span the globe!

Tuesday 9th December 2014

British actor Jeremy Irvine, and Awards Chairman, corporate strategist Oliver Rothschild presented Thames Tideway Tunnel Ltd with Best Overall Film in a glittering awards ceremony at BAFTA in London's Piccadilly last night.

The film You Poo Too' also won the Creating a Better Environment category. Highly commended in this category were Snowcarbon Ltd for How children make the journey part of the holiday' and BASF SE for The new source desalination in Cyprus'.

The Fastflow Group Award for Community Investment went to Global Generation for the film Big Bang Project'. Highly commended in this category were Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College, London for Powering the top of the world empowering communities', and DLA Piper UK LLP for Child Justice in Bangladesh'.

The Inspiring Good Governance Award went to Chepu Adventures for the film Where sustainability's more than a way of living, it's a passion'. Highly commended in this category was Psaros with Leading by doing'.

Chepu Adventures also won the Propeller TV Award for innovation with the film Where sustainability's more than a way of living, it's a passion'. So you wanna be in TV was highly commended for its film Changing Lives. Changing TV'.

The Judges' Award for the most consistent global sustainability campaign was won by HSBC for two films Investing in lives and livelihoods' by HSBC Global and Volunteering for the HSBC Water Programme' by HSBC Now (UK).

Oliver Rothschild, Awards Chairman said: The tve Global Sustainability Film Awards 2014 have taken us around the world in an evening, and given us a very visual insight into how companies and institutions big and small are tackling some of the biggest challenges we face on this planet. I hope that companies and foundations globally and in a variety of sectors will want to watch these films online and on tv and aspire to exercise sustainable business protocols and thus be making a genuine contribution towards valid ethical standards.

tve's executive director Cheryl Campbell said: We doubled the number of films entered this year, and we were thrilled to have entries from Latin America, north America, Asia, Australia and Europe. It is inspiring that big and small companies, a charity and an academic institution are among the winners this year. Thanks to our partnership with Propeller TV, the films will go on to reach a wide broadcast audience and I very much hope they will inspire many more companies and institutions to be ambitious in their approach to sustainability.

Ryan Brennan, Strategic Development Director of The Fastflow Group which sponsored the Fastflow Award for Community Investment said: The unprecedented number of magnificent entries demonstrates how film is increasingly used to portray the challenges and solutions to creating a sustainable future. It is also an endorsement of tve as an architect of positive environmental change through film.

It was very difficult for the judges to choose between the entries - but what a wonderful problem to have. I wish we could have given everyone an award because they have all showed not only that they care about our future but that they are trying to change. If the Awards have encouraged positive change then we have made a small contribution to the biggest challenge our world has ever faced.

notes:

about the judges: the panel of judges was chaired by Richard Creasey, Chair of the Board of Trustees of tve. Richard was joined by Judith Everett, Director of Corporate Affairs for the Crown Estate; Ryan Brennan, Strategic Development Director for The Fastflow Group; sustainability communications strategist Victoria Brooks; Gioia Forti, Global Editor in Chief for GB Times; Denise Parkinson, Entertainment Director Global & UK for the Telegraph Media Group, and Eileen Maybin, Head of Media Relations at the Fairtrade Foundation.

about tve: tve makes films about the big environment and development challenges of our times, and harnesses the creativity and talent of digital filmmakers to give their take on the state of the planet. We work with broadcasters, digital platforms and our partners to ensure that tve films have an audience reach of more than one billion viewers.

about the tve Global Sustainability Film Awards 2014: The Awards encourage best-practice companies and organisations, large and small, to share innovative sustainability practice and ideas through film. 33 films were entered into this year's Awards. The Awards were launched in 2012 and are held annually.

about The Fastflow Group: Fastflow operates within the infrastructure and support services (SS&I) sector supplying cost effective and value added services in a collaborative, proactive, fair and responsible manner. Fastflow has a customer base including public and private organisations such as FTSE top 100 giant National Grid, leading water companies Northumbrian Water Group, Scottish Water and Housing Associations A2Dominion, Catalyst Housing and Southern Housing.

The company embraces the strategic, competitive advantages of a sustainable business model and conducts its business ethically, thereby establishing and maintaining long-term relationships to make a positive contribution to society.

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tve: Dominga Devitt, Awards Fundraiser and Co-ordinator

dominga.devitt@tve.org.uk

+ 44 (0)20 7963 7442

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