Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival
2024 festival
Sunday 14th April @ 1pm
National Museum of Scotland Auditorium
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About our festival
The Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival is a family-friendly event, founded by Edinburgh Conservation Science (ECoS), a consortium of Scotland-based organisations promoting the inclusion of science into biodiversity conservation management and policy.
The inaugural festival was held in the spring of 2022 and was a resounding success, so much so that we ran the festival again in 2023 and are doing so again in 2024! The festival is 90-minute programme of a selection of short films (approx. 5 minutes) made with the intention of inspiring and engaging a broad audience with stories of positive biodiversity conservation success.
This year's festival aims to show people the importance of biodiversity conservation for all of us, and to give agency to individuals to make positive impacts on global biodiversity. Each film will convey a positive message of what we can achieve for the benefit of biodiversity conservation and our shared society, highlighting humanity’s their links with the natural world.
2023’s Films
The 2022 Edinburgh Conservation Film Festival
The biggest global biodiversity conference in a decade, CoP15, concluded last year. CoP15 brought together all the Parties signed up to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). This Convention covers the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, with fair sharing of benefits arising from it.
In the spirit of supporting public engagement with this special CoP, we screened a selection of short films that inspire and engage a wide audience. Each film conveyed a positive message of what we can achieve for the benefit of biodiversity conservation.
To mark CoP15, our first film festival took place on April 23rd 2022 in the auditorium of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The Global Biodiversity Framework’s vision is a world living in harmony with nature where: By 2050, biodiversity is valued, conserved, restored, and wisely used, maintaining ecosystem services, sustaining a healthy planet, and delivering benefits essential for all people. In honour of this, the theme of the festival was centred around ‘A world living in harmony’.