EU-Project "Food on Film"

Together with three other European nature film festivals, the innsbruck nature film festival has been awarded the EU project “Food on Film.”

Since the fall semester of 2024, 20 Austrian school classes have been exploring urgent issues related to nutrition, food production, and the environment, creating film scripts that will be turned into one-minute short films.

The project provides teachers and schools with a modern, digital, and interactive educational film format, granting access to numerous international and national environmental films, documentaries, and scientific materials. All that is needed for production is a smartphone and creative ideas.

In each participating countries two classes with the best scripts will win a professional film workshop to professionally finalize their short films. All films produced by the students will be showcased at the Mobile Film Festival in Paris, and at the innsbruck nature film festival in October 2025.

The winners have been chosen!

We were truly impressed by the students’ creative script ideas and the many wonderful stories they submitted. It was a real challenge for the jury to select just two winning classes!

And the winning classes are:

Class 7D from BRG in der Au (WEST), project supervisor: Andreas Schrott
Title: “Your order, please! Don’t order, please!”
This story explores the environmental impact of ordering a burger.

Class 3AT from the Carinthian School of Tourism in Villach, project supervisor: Christopher Winkler
Title: “A second for us is a life for them!”
A boy goes through several unpleasant moments. He gets annoyed but quickly moves on. Animals, on the other hand, often spend their entire lives in such unpleasant situations — and know no other reality.

Congratulations to all! The film workshops will take place at the end of May. We’re already looking forward to the shoot days with the students!

The filmed scripts of all remaining classes will also be shown at the festival in October 2025.

Film Making-Ofs

The Projects

BFW Wörgl

A second class from BFW Wörgl (Federal Vocational School for Economic Professions) submits a script for the project “Food on Film” addressing food waste. To prevent usable food from being thrown away, this class is fully committed to the cause.

The class receives food from MPreis that can no longer be sold and would otherwise end up in the trash. The students prepare a variety of delicious dishes from the usable food, which they then offer the next day during the break sale to all students at a very low price.

The proceeds go to a local charitable cause (a family in need), which the students/customers determine through a democratic vote.

In addition, they will film their project “Guats vu gestan.”

Teacher in charge of the project: Prof. MMag. Manfred Mühllechner, Class 2AL

Ferrarischule Innsbruck

Frühjahrsmesse 2025

BRG in der Au

How Does Our Consumption Affect the Entire Food System?

As part of the EU project “Food on Film,” we have spent the past few weeks and months delving into the global challenges of the food system. In November, we visited the “Weltacker” in Innsbruck and saw just how much farmland our consumption actually takes up.

Over the last two months, we watched several interesting films on this topic – from exclusively local consumption to the horrific conditions of industrial animal farming – and then created our own scripts for 1-minute short films.

In groups, we focused on topics like industrial animal farming, packaging waste, and food waste, creating scripts and storyboards for these themes. The submission is coming up soon, and within our class, we have narrowly chosen one script to submit for the competition.

However, all the short films, once filmed, could be showcased at the Innsbruck Nature Film Festival. Our goal is to raise awareness of these everyday issues with our films. Every individual’s consumption already has a huge impact on the global food system. Everyone can make a change. We are excited to bring our scripts to life and prove ourselves at the festival!