Outstanding environmental storytelling by a UK broadcaster will again be recognised by the Press Association at tve's 2018 film awards. The winner of the Press Association Award for Environmental Storytelling will be announced at the tveGlobal Sustainability Film Awards together with Fastflow Group on stage at BAFTA in central London on Monday 26 November.This year's Awards are the 7th organised by the media charity tve. Companies globally are invited to enter their own films about how they are addressing the Sustainable Development Goals.
What we are doing to our environment, efforts to clean up our oceans, loss of species, sustainable solutions to climate change - these are all big stories that journalists and reporters are covering. We want to recognise those UK broadcasters who are putting resources into telling these big stories and doing so in inspiring and highly engaging ways,''says Tony Watson, managing director of PA, the UK's leading provider of multimedia content and services.
Last year's winner of the PA award, a nominated category, was Sky News' powerful and shocking documentary A Plastic Whale .
There are five competitive categories, with an entry deadline of 12 October. Submit your company's film into one of the following competitive categories now athttp://gsfa.tve.org/how-to-enter/:
Global Digital Futures celebrates the digital world's positive effect on the environment and society;
Transforming Society is for businesses that invest in the wellbeing of society worldwide;
Protecting the Environment focuses on companies who strive to maintain and enhance our environment;
Reshaping the Economy is dedicated to businesses that are recreating and improving our economy;
Sky: Beyond Plastic is directed towards companies who are combatting plastic pollution in different ways.
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The tve Global Sustainability Film Awards are organised annually by the charity tve and are open for entries. The film competition recognises companies and institutions whose films most powerfully portray solutions for sustainability. This year's president is Claudine Blamey, group head of corporate responsibility and sustainability at Sainsbury's. For the third year running we are focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which set ambitious targets for world development: eradicating poverty and hunger; ensuring good health, quality education and gender equality; and setting targets for affordable and clean energy, climate action and responsible consumption and production. gsfa.tve.org
tve is the non-profit based in London that organises the Awards. It creates and enables others to create powerful, effective communications about the environment and sustainable development. Through film, animation, documentaries, debates and social media, the media charity reaches global audiences, giving a voice to a new generation committed to a greener and fairer world. The Awards are tve's main annual fundraiser. tve.org
Press Association has partnered with tve to facilitate the Press Association Award for Environmental Storytelling for the second year running. The award includes, but is not limited to, storytelling through the medium of news, and will recognise the creative use of factual programming in its widest sense to tell the story of our planet and its environment.
PA is the UK's leading provider of multimedia content and services. Established as the Press Association in 1868, PA remains the national news agency for the UK and Ireland, serving a broad range of customers including major media and digital brands around the world, businesses and public sector organisations.
In addition to the newswire, PA's products and services span pictures, video, data APIs, hosted live blogs, graphics, listings pages, social media curation and page production. The news agency is part of the PA Group of specialist media companies.www.pressassociation.com/group-overview
Fastflow Group is the Awards' main sponsor for the fourth year running. The company provides infrastructure maintenance and improvement services to Northumbrian Water and Scottish Water, and a wide range of high pressure gas transmission engineering projects for clients such as National Grid and Cadent Gas, from bases in Washington, Tyne and Wear, and Warrington, Greater Manchester.
From Thame, Oxfordshire it delivers planned and responsive repairs for housing associations owning around 200,000 homes across the south of the UK. A recent addition to the business County Durham and Derbyshire based Partner Group designs and builds homes for housing associations and major asset owners across the UK.
Fastflow Group operates within the support services sector, supplying cost-effective and value-added services in a collaborative, proactive, fair and responsible manner. The customer base includes Northumbrian Water and Scottish Water, FTSE top 100 company National Grid and Housing Associations A2Dominion, Catalyst Housing, Southern Housing, Karbon Homes and Midland Heart. 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.
Fastflow Group has supported the tve Global Sustainability Film Awards since 2014, and has been main sponsor since 2015. www.fastflow.co.uk
Sky has partnered with tve to launch the Beyond Plastic category this year. Last year Sky News won the Press Association Award for Environmental Storytelling, for its documentary A Plastic Whale'. Sky News launched in 1989 and was the UK's first dedicated 24-hour news channel. It reports across TV, mobile, online, social media, connected TV, radio and iPad, offering insight and analysis on the latest news stories. It h
