The Apolinar Concepción, Arcadia Reyes, Cleotilde Castillo and Tomás Hernández Franco schools participated in the event that was held as part of the implementation of the Eco-Schools program.

One hundred students from four public schools located in the Dominican district of San Antonio de Guerra enjoyed the screening of the short film Circular, by Mexican filmmakers Aránzazu Zamora and Alexandra Castellano. The activity, organized by the Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival (DREFF) and the Institute of Environmental Law of the Dominican Republic (IDADR for its acronym in Spanish), took place on March 25 of this year. The Apolinar Concepción, Arcadia Reyes, Cleotilde Castillo and Tomás Hernández Franco schools participated in the event that was held as part of the implementation of the Eco-Schools program and in the framework of DREFF’s Year-Round Environmental Film Screenings program.

Eco-Schools is an international environmental certification program that is provided to schools that develop education and participation programs and projects where the children and friends of the school, following the established procedures, get involved in the implementation of  environmental enhancements in the school and in the community. This program is overseen worldwide by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE).

Through the agreement with IDADR, the DREFF supports this mission: “Providing, through cinema, ideas on attitudes and actions that may contribute to the protection of the natural resources, and promoting the importance of sustainable development in the Dominican Republic,” explains Shamir Omar Reynoso, Environmental Programs Coordinator at GFDD/Funglode.

Since the inception of its Dominican Republic Environmental Film Festival in 2011, Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) has created and developed five programs that run throughout the year and which contribute significantly to the sustainable development of the Dominican Republic. They are: EcoHuertos, ReCrearte, RDescubre, the Globo Verde Dominicano Award and the Year-Round Environmental Film Screenings program.

The Year-Round Environmental Film Screenings program provides an opportunity for schools, community centers, businesses and government and non-governmental agencies to enjoy the most interesting screenings on environmental issues that have been shown in previous editions of DREFF, on a complementary basis.

For more information:
www.globalfoundationdd.org
www.dreff.org