Documentaries

Since 2007 award-winning documentaries play an integral part in the ECOWEEK program. In 2009 ECOWEEK was the first in Greece to show the newly released The Age of Stupid by director Franny Armstrong and Oscar-winning producer John Battsek starring Pete Postlethwaite, at the same time the film was premiered in most capitals across the world.... Read more


ECOWEEK 2010 in the MIDDLE EAST: No Documentaries are scheduled to be screened.


DOCUMENTARIES AT ECOWEEK

In 2007, ECOWEEK was among the first to show in Greece the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth with Nobel-Laureate and former US Vice President Al Gore, and to show it to more than 100 High Schools across Greece and Cyprus. In 2008 ECOWEEK organized a panel of distinguished speakers for the premiere of The 11th Hour with Leonardo DiCaprio at the 48th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, and then held free screenings across Greece and Cyprus, including High Schools. In 2008 ECOWEEK hosted the premiere of Last Call for Planet Earth by Jacques Allard, who was invited to introduced the film together with a panel of distinguished architects from Greece, UK and Denmark. In 2009 ECOWEEK was the first to show the newly released The Age of Stupid by director Franny Armstrong and Oscar-winning producer John Battsek starring Pete Postlethwaite, in Athens (Greece) at the same time the film was premiered in most capitals across the world.

ECOWEEK has also been screening the TVE documentary series ELEMENT by director Emily McDowell, broadcast on MTV channels globally, featuring young social entrepreneurs who initiate creative projects for Climate Change and UNs Millenium Development Goals; The Next Industrial Revolution directed by Shelley Morhaim featuring architect William McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart and their cradle-to-cradle concept; The Power of Community directed by Faith Morgan, about how Cuba survived the Peak Oil crisis in the 1990s with urgan organic agriculture; The Rural Studio presenting Samuel Mockbee's vision of Architecture as a catalyst for social change; Kilowatt Ours by Jerr Barrie about where our energy comes from and what is the impact on the environment and the local communities; and Architecture 2030 by architect Ed Mazria a leader in passive solar architecture and sustainable building.

ECOWEEK welcomes invitations for public, corporate, community, and educational screenings. All invited screenings have a charge for the public screening copyrights. Contact ecoweek[at]ecoweek.gr