Impressions filmmaking workshop

Impressions filmmaking workshop

From July 20 to 23, the filmmaking workshop organized by the Innsbruck Nature Film Festival for all adolescents from 14 to 25 took place. On four consecutive days, experienced workshop leaders held a crash course on the skills that it takes to make a short film on the legs. The finished works may now be submitted to the INFF, offering the winner a prize money worth 1000 Euros. The workshop was held in the “Mühlauer foxhole” and the “Karwendel Alpine Park”. It was made possible by our partners Tiroler Tageszeitung and Canon Austria. The final presentation of the completed short films was held at Cafe Moustache. It was a great fun for us! Here are […]

Population Boom – Open Air Cinema

Population Boom – Open Air Cinema

As a preview for the 2015 Innsbruck Nature Film Festival, we show Werner Boote’s POPULATION BOOM at this year’s Open Air Cinema! A well-known horror scenario: 7 billion people on earth. Dwindling resources, toxic garbage mountains, hunger and climate change – a consequence of overpopulation? Who says actually that the world is overpopulated? And who among us is too much? After the huge box office success of “Plastic Planet” curious documentarian Werner Boote traveled our planet and studied for POPULATION BOOM a decades bogged worldview. For him it is a completely different question: Who or what drives this disaster scenario? When: August 03, 2015, inlet from 8:15 pm, beginning 9:15 pm […]

Trailer 2015 INFF

Trailer 2015 INFF

Environment is always a matter of time. Changes such as global warming, the loss of natural areas and growth of the major cities have a direct impact on our environment and our lives. We have to deal with floods, as well as earthquakes, droughts and storms. It is no question that climate change is caused by human activity. Caring for our environment, our planet is a need of the hour . Can mankind use its intelligence to preserve themselves from extinction? This year’s trailer should encourage people to think about the fact that we are equipped with a human brain and if we are able to use it to make a change! watch the […]

International Year of Soils #IYS2015

International Year of Soils #IYS2015

Soil is the foundation of our lives and of all ecosystem services, although it is so far little present in public consciousness. But it is a very important part of our nature: it enables food production, serves as an important water storage and water filter, convert and dissipate organic residues and makes pollutants harmless. Remarkably there are more organisms living in soils than on its surface! Today we take soil for granted, resulting in numerous negative consequences such as soil loss and soil destruction. 350-400 km² of arable soils are lost every day worldwide. Now it is necessary to protect soils sustainably as a resource and therefore for our existence. […]

2nd Green Film Network Award

2nd Green Film Network Award

All members of the Green Film Network presented a documentary chosen among their 2014 selection and produced in their own country, in order to show the diversity and the strength of environmental documentary creations around the world. The INFF nominated the documentary “The Billion-Dollar-Fish” by Alfred Schwarzenberger (AUT 2013, Terra Mater & Science Vision). The place and time for the award ceremony of the 2nd Green Film Network Award was the opening night of Ecozine Film Festival in Zaragoza (7 May 2015). In the last few months, some selected international jury members related to the world of cinema and environment have been watching the environmental documentaries proposed by the festivals of the network. And […]

Green Film Network

Green Film Network

The Green Film Network (GFN) brings together some of the major film festivals that happen annually around the globe with focus on environmental issues. The network objective is to coordinate the events of the associated festivals, promote and distribute films worldwide and encourage initiatives and projects that might help people ponder about the environment. INFF is proud member of GFN! Click here to read more: GFN

Innsbruck – capital of the Alps

Innsbruck – capital of the Alps

Innsbruck – a place where modern urban life and nature meet. There could hardly be a better location for nature filmmakers, producers and the interested public to meet and discuss the latest developments of films focusing on nature and the environment. The digital revolution and society‘s increasing care for the natural foundations of our life have contributed to make to this topic highly interesting for many. For more information about Innsbruck, click here: www.innsbruck.info

The new INFF website

The new INFF website

We have done what we could to finish our new webiste and guess what? IT IS DONE!! Some menu items are still missing, e.g. “Archive” or “Submissions”. These will be published within the next days! We hope to provide you with an informative and oversseable website! In case you have any remarks or question you can contact us any time: Contact   Sincerely, your INFF-team