Green Montenegro International Film Fest (GMIFF)

The GMIFF is a conceptual film festival whose main topic is the environmental protection. The aim is to develop and raise the awareness of the need to protect the environment through the artistic impulse and the improvement of the knowledge and the awareness of the ecology through the awareness of the global trends which Montenegro tends to follow. Thus it represents an important step forward on this path. The festival is educational and non-commercial, divided into three subcategories: 1. Ecology, 2. the Ecology of the Soul and 3.Promotional and tourism videos. Besides the awards for the first, second and third place in each of the categories, the Grand Prix for the best film of the festival is also awarded.

Green Montenegro International Film Fest is becoming a well established centre of ecological and cultural identity of Montenegro and the forerunner of the concrete activities and sustainable ideas concerning the protection of the natural resources of our country. The significance of this project is visible through the fact that the GMIFF has put Montenegro on the map of the world’s ecology- oriented events by becoming the member of the “Green Film Network” thus making the festival

internationally recognised, with an aim to create a certain image and exclusivity of the world’s first ecological state by Constitution. The project is offering a solution to the Montenegro’s need to permanently receive an original film festival based on the concept of ecology, one which would contribute to the development of social thinking and shape the further directions of the development of culture, education and social activism concerning the environmental protection. Festival encompasses the contemporary tendencies of merging the different social sectors such as public institutions, cultural institutions, NGOs etc.