Green Screen film festival explained

The Green Screen international wildlife film festival is held annually in and around Eckernförde, Germany. The festival shows full-length and short nature documentaries about animals in their natural habitat. Around 30,000 visitors make it the largest nature film festival in Europe. The awarded trophy is made of sand.^[1]

Since 2007 films are shown in cinemas of Eckernförde and on mobile screens in the city and in surrounding locations.

In 2008 Inge Sielmann, the widow of Heinz Sielmann, donated a special prize for filmmakers that is endowed with 5,000 Euros.

Selected awardees

2014^[2]

• Special Jury Award: More Than Honey of Markus Imhoof
• Audience Award Best Short Film for Kids: Die Sendung mit der Maus - The Source of the Runnel of Sabine Ennulath and Christoph Biemann
• Wild Laugh: Bottle of Kirsten Lepore

2013^[3]

• Heinz Sielmann Award for his lifetime achievement: David Attenborough

2012^[4]

• sh:z Audience Award: Europe's Last Wild Horses of Christian Baumeister

2009^[5]

• Prize for the Best Ecological Film: Cork – Forest in a Bottle of Mike Salisbury

External links

• Official homepage (English)
• Video showing the production of the festival trophy

Notes and References

1. Web site: Trophäen aus Sand sind preisverdächtig.
2. Web site: 2014: Greenscreen Festival . 2016-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160528235102/http://www.greenscreen-festival.de/en/event/awardees/archive/2014/ . 2016-05-28 . dead .
3. Web site: 2013: Greenscreen Festival . 2016-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160501034758/http://www.greenscreen-festival.de/en/event/awardees/archive/2013/ . 2016-05-01 . dead .
4. Web site: 2012: Greenscreen Festival . 2016-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160513000251/http://www.greenscreen-festival.de/en/event/awardees/archive/2012/ . 2016-05-13 . dead .
5. Web site: 2009: Greenscreen Festival . 2016-07-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160322200745/http://www.greenscreen-festival.de/en/event/awardees/archive/2009/ . 2016-03-22 . dead .