Free Invite: "GUIMARAS: Short Films from the Oil Spill" Premiere Screening

ROBINSONS MOVIEWORLD AND INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS
COOPERATIVE present "GUIMARAS: Short Films from the Oil Spill"

DATE: October 13, 2006 (Friday)
VENUE: Robinsons Galleria Movieworld, Cinema 1 THX

EVENTS:
2:00 pm From Tragedy to Strategy: A Dialogue
6:00 pm Opening of Greenpeace Photo Exhibit
7:30 pm Premiere Screening of GUIMARAS: Short Films
from the Oil Spill

NOTE: REGULAR SCREENING OF THE SHORTS WILL BE ON
NOVEMBER 18 AND 19 (NOT October 14 and 15).

From Tragedy to Strategy: A Dialogue

The future of the Guimaras is darker than the oil on
its shores. It is high time for a public forum on a
clear action plan for Guimaras.

There is a need to hold a venue for dialogue between
the national and local government, civil society
groups, Petron Corporation and Sunshine Maritime.

The forum will draw up an action plan for awareness
and education, rehabilitation and prevention of future
environmental tragedies brought about by oil spills
and marine pollution.

Panelists will be representatives from the local
government of Guimaras, Petron Corporation, the
environment and the legal sector and other
stakeholders.

Resource speakers will include government agencies
concerned, and the nationally mandated Task Force
Guimaras. NGOs and aid agencies, which can assist in
coastal resource management, livelihood, environmental
education, toxic and hazardous waste management,
biodiversity conservation, public health management,
alternative livelihoods, community development, relief
assistance and aid, etc, will also be invited.

The festival is organized by the Independent
Filmmakers Cooperative of the Philippines and
Robinsons Movieworld, featuring the country's top
independent filmmakers.

It has collaborated with the Center for
Environmental Awareness and Education, a non-profit
organization that promotes environmental education
initiatives in the country, for the Guimaras Forum.

CEAE holds the annual Moonrise Film Festival, a
documentary film festival about Philippine environment
and culture as part its efforts in fast-tracking
environmental awareness through film and media.

The forum and the short films hope to be a first
step in advancing action-oriented awareness about one
of the gravest environmental tragedies of the country.