Ecofilms Festival submits due by March 1

In its ninth year, the annual Rodos Ecofilms International Films + Visual Arts Festival screens around 100 documentaries, shorts, and features with broad ecological themes, and the next batch of submissions is due soon. Filmmakers have until March 1 to submit a copy of their film and an application for this year’s festival, which will be held from June 23 to 28. According to the guidelines, the festival is looking for films with environmental and ecology themes, encouraging conservation issues and issues related with the natural, the human, and the built environment. The festival, touted as the only one of its kind in the Mediterranean and the Balkans, is held each year in June at various venues in Rhodes Town, including the National Theatre of Rhodes and the open-air Rodon cinema.