Earth Month

Originally published on Oct. 7, 2021: We first met Italian scientist Monica Gagliano while watching the documentary Aware: Glimpses of Consciousness, directed by Frauke Sandig and Eric Black; later, we had the opportunity to interview all three of them as journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press.

In 2019 alone, direct investment in film production in Hungary reached $565. 6 million, not counting indirect investment in tourism.

Dia Mirza is an actor/producer at One India Stories LLP, as well as an Advocate for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program. An average working person may not be able to shop in an organic grocery store or buy an electric car.

At the Bari International Film Festival (BIFEST) in Bari, Italy, Hill of Vision, directed by Roberto Faenza, was the opening movie at the gala premiere. The story is based on the real-life of Mario Capecchi, a four-year-old abandoned boy who spent his childhood on the streets after his mother got arrested by fascists.

Kevin Costner has played various versions of the American everyman for over four decades. With prominent roles like Eliot Ness (The Untouchables), Crash Davis (Bull Durham), Ray Kinsella (Field of Dreams), Wyatt Earp (Wyatt Earp), Jonathan Kent (Man of Steel), and his Golden-Globe-winning role as Lieutenant Dunbar in Dances with Wolves, Costner has shown range, depth, and unwavering patriotism.

From anti-war Hanoi Jane to the Jane of the fitness tape, from feminism to human rights to environmental activism – not to mention her film career – Jane Fonda, strong and healthy as ever at 84, has always been, not only hyperactive but an indefatigable activist. She is still sounding the call to action, still trying to inspire young people – indeed, people in general – to open their eyes to the social injustices and the perils of climate change.

Since he was a child, John Ablaza has always loved being surrounded by nature. This love for nature extended to everything he was passionate about including fashion design.

German Green Consultant Anika Kruse is a fierce protector of the environment and predicts that in the future, cinemagoers will be too. Her children will refuse to watch movies unless they know that they have been certified as green: she believes that this will become a demand of many young people, which might dramatically affect their choices as cinemagoers in the future.

The protagonist of Augusto Sandino’s new film, A Vanishing Fog, known simply as F. , lives in the high mountains of Colombia, taking care of his ailing father and what remains of their household and land.

Amanda Santana had no idea that one day she would launch a successful, sustainable, environmentally supportive business that would bring to light the talent and culture of indigenous artists of the Amazon Rainforest.   A makeup artist born in Rio de Janeiro, trained in Los Angeles, and working with Brazilian film and TV projects, Santana met her future business partner, anthropologist Fernando Niemeyer and, in 2010, decided to join him on a visit to one of the Amazon territories, dedicated to the Kraô nation.