Film festival dedicated to the sea being launched in Alonissos

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The land of Alonissos successful the western Aegean is gearing up to big the archetypal planetary movie festival successful Greece dedicated wholly to the sea, successful the bosom of the country’s largest marine park.

Set for October 9-12, the inaugural Alonissos Movies of the Sea (AMoS) Film Festival aims to showcase the value of marine ecosystems while highlighting the land and the National Marine Park of Alonissos and North Sporades arsenic a exemplary for sustainable management. It besides underscores the relation of the section assemblage successful protecting and utilizing earthy assets for semipermanent development.

The programme comprises features and shorts – fiction, documentary and animation –  for audiences of each ages, each centered connected seas and oceans. Screenings will beryllium accompanied by parallel activities such arsenic creation workshops, formation cleanups and vessel trips, reinforcing the festival’s conservation message.

Prince Albert II of Monaco will unfastened the lawsuit during his visit to the Sporades successful support of Mediterranean monk seal protection.

Organizers accidental the festival’s ultimate extremity is to link 1 of Europe’s largest marine parks with high-quality cinema, raising consciousness of the marine situation and inspiring stronger engagement successful its protection. They anticipation the lawsuit will turn into an yearly gathering constituent for filmmakers and biology advocates alike.