Patrimony

Ecology, Culture and Social Justice

The Socio-Environmental Film Exhibition promoted by the Museum of Environmental Sciences of the University of Guadalajara´s Cultural Center and the International Film Festival in Guadalajara comes to its 12th edition projecting films that focus on the confluence between ecology, culture and social justice.

Since inception in 2009, with the exhibition of Salvando el Río Ayuquila, a film produced by the United Nations and the University of Guadalajara, this Exhibition has projected a total of 190 movies between shortfilms and long features with the commitment to offer its attendees a selection of the best films from around the world with the best projection at cost-free shows which are followed by the analysis and the exchange of opinions between special guests and the public.

Each year the Socio-Environmental Film Exhibition presents some of the competing films of the International Film Festival in Guadalajara that address socio-environmental issues, as well as the best films of the International Film and Environment Festival of Mexico Cinema Planeta, along with winning films from the Green Film Network, an international effort that brings together 32 environmental film festivals from around the world.

Eduardo Santana Castellón
General Coordinator of the Enviromental Sciences Museum