Taking a moment to reflect
Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 11:27AM As 2012 already moves into its second month, we take a quick moment to look back at AEFF's recent achievements.
The African Environmental Film Foundation (AEFF) has made great strides over the past few years. AEFF is Africa’s only non-profit dedicated exclusively to providing environmental and conservation education through film and new media, presented in local languages.
With a fulltime team of just 4 people in Africa, supported by our Board of Directors in the United States and our Board of Trustees in UK, AEFF’s most recent accomplishments include:
- Completion of 10 new one-hour documentaries about a range of pressing environmental issues, and distribution of 1,000 DVD copies of each film across Africa as a free educational resource.
- The negotiation of a distribution deal, which will bring AEFF’s films to 45 countries and 77 broadcasters across Africa, reaching a potential audience of a quarter of a billion people and providing them all with free environmental education. This will make AEFF’s films the most widely viewed environmental films in Africa, with a greater audience on the continent than Discovery and National Geographic combined.
- The widening of grass-roots distribution networks for our finished films, which now reach school children, university students and adults in Kenya, Tanzania, South Sudan, DR Congo, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Cameroon and Uganda.
- The indexing of AEFF’s entire film archive, consisting of over 600 hours of footage, which will allow this unique resource to be easily accessible for use in future AEFF educational films.
- An additional five new film projects are nearing completion, including a trilogy about bees and pollination, and the re-versioning of two older films by AEFF’s Founder, Simon Trevor, who has donated the educational rights to AEFF.
- In partnership with the Tribeca Film Institute, AEFF’s films are now available to buy on Amazon, making them accessible to universities and schools around the world, while helping to support AEFF’s work on the ground in Africa. Trailers of the films can now be seen online on AEFF’s YouTube channel and discussion of the films can be enjoyed on our Facebook page.
- Through donations, AEFF has been able to purchase new equipment (cameras, editing computers, software and accessories).
We thank you for your support, which has made all these achievements possible, and we invite you to join us again as we embark on further new educational film and new media projects in 2012.
Filming honey harvesting in the Mara region of Kenya for AEFF's bee/pollination trilogy, showing an industry which not only makes money but benefits the environment at the same time.
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