Lord Mayors of three festival cities – Ján Králik (Banská Bystrica), Vladimír Maňka (Zvolen) and Marián Lichner (Banská Štiavnica) wish a lot of success and good ideas to ENVIROFILM 2002.
Envirofilm 2002 briefly
Slovak Environmental Agency in Banská Bystrica is the organiser of the 8th International Festival of Films, TV Programmes and Video Programmes ENVIROFILM 2002. The Festival was launched by the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic. Festival organisers received 94 films from 21 countries, of them 18 from Slovakia. Yugoslavia, Georgia, Switzerland, USA and Romania sent one film each, Italy, France, Latvia and Great Britain two, Australia, India, Czech Republic, Estonia, Austria and Poland three and Spain and Russia four films each. Iran sent 8 films. The largest number of films – 28 - is of the German production. The international jury was evaluating films, video programmes and TV programmes in four categories: publicist video programmes (magazines) and films; documentaries; educational and instructive video programmes and films; and finally dramatic films on the Festival topic (animated cartoons, puppet films, videoclips, etc.). The jury will decide on the Grand Prix of Envirofilm and the main prize in each category. The jury is also entitled to recommend awarding of prizes of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic, lord mayors of Banská Bystrica, Zvolen and Banská Štiavnica, prize of the Rector of the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, Rector of the Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica and Rector of the Technical University in Zvolen, prize of the General Director of the Slovak Environmental Agency and the prize of the General Director of the Slovak Television. During the Awarding Ceremony is also awarded a special, non-statutory prize of the Slovak Television Artists Union and Literature Fund for the long-term contribution in the field of Slovak audio-visual production on environmental topic.
Marián Lichner
The Green Oscar for the second time to Banská Štiavnica
The town of Banská Štiavnica was awarded in 1999 the Green Oscar in Japanese Hamamatsu for the landscape and environmental improvement and for environmental development in the contest of cities “Nations in Bloom”. In 2000, the town was awarded Green Oscar for the cultural heritage management. Banská Štiavnica is up till now the only Slovak town that succeeded in this world contest. The contest “Nations in Bloom” was founded in the 90-ties of the last century based on the experience with human settlements evaluation and comparison in English speaking countries. The basic principle of the assessment is not the condition of individual towns and villages but the assessment of positive changes in individual human settlements for the relevant year, taking into account social-economic conditions in which changes took place. Thus, the starting line was identical for all human settlements all over the world. Following criteria have been evaluated in the contest: planning for the future, landscape improvement, heritage management, public involvement and implementation of environmentally sensitive principles.
