The Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (NGC) has part­nered with Sus­tain TT to launch the 2020 edi­tion of its Green Screen En­vi­ron­men­tal Film Fes­ti­val, ti­tled Green Screen 2020: Dig­i­tal Fes­ti­val.

In an of­fi­cial state­ment an­nounc­ing the part­ner­ship with Sus­tain TT, NGC’s Man­ag­er Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Lisa Bur­kett, ex­plains that it sup­ports NGC’s sus­tain­abil­i­ty thrust, in­clud­ing ad­vo­ca­cy and ed­u­ca­tion on re­new­able en­er­gy and en­er­gy ef­fi­cien­cy.

“The part­ner­ship pro­vides an op­por­tu­ni­ty for NGC to con­tin­ue to po­si­tion it­self as a leader in the move­ment to­wards the more ef­fi­cient use of en­er­gy and a re­duc­tion in the coun­try’s car­bon foot­print,” she said.

This year, the fes­ti­val calls on bud­ding film­mak­ers with a pow­er­ful en­vi­ron­men­tal mes­sage to once again share their vi­sions.

NGC’s Green Screen 2020: Dig­i­tal Fes­ti­val com­pris­es the fol­low­ing com­po­nents:

1. Very Short Shorts Com­pe­ti­tion – this com­pe­ti­tion is open to film­mak­ers of all lev­els of ex­pe­ri­ence in two cat­e­gories: 12 to 17-year old par­tic­i­pants; and 18+ year old par­tic­i­pants. Films are to be shot en­tire­ly on a mo­bile de­vice in HD video and no more than 60 sec­onds in length.

2. The Green Screen En­vi­ron­men­tal Film Fes­ti­val – a col­lec­tion of 2020 fes­ti­val pre­mieres and pre­vi­ous­ly pro­grammed film favourites based on sus­tain­abil­i­ty and en­vi­ron­men­tal preser­va­tion will be made avail­able for view­ing fol­lowed by a Q & A with Di­rec­tors and Pro­duc­ers.

3. School’s Pro­gramme – This will con­sist of a pre-pack­aged school video pro­gramme with in­no­v­a­tive and en­gag­ing con­tent on sus­tain­abil­i­ty, en­er­gy ef­fi­cien­cy, re­new­able en­er­gy etc. for stu­dents to sup­ple­ment les­son plans and break mo­not­o­ny of on­line class­es.

“The se­ries will utilise elec­tron­ic and so­cial me­dia plat­forms to max­imise reach, giv­en the cur­rent con­straints of the ‘new nor­mal’,” Lisa Bur­kett ex­plained. “It comes on the heels of our re­cent­ly launched NGC SmarTT app, which can iden­ti­fy con­sumers’ en­er­gy use of every­day ap­pli­ances, pro­vide users with in­for­ma­tion on po­ten­tial mon­e­tary sav­ings from us­ing more en­er­gy ef­fi­cient prod­ucts, as well as share the ben­e­fits and op­por­tu­ni­ties of en­er­gy ef­fi­cien­cy.”

Now in its tenth year, The Green Screen En­vi­ron­men­tal Film Fes­ti­val works to bring rel­e­vant en­vi­ron­men­tal is­sues to com­mu­ni­ties in an en­ter­tain­ing and en­gag­ing way.

In­for­ma­tion on the Green Screen 2020: Dig­i­tal Fes­ti­val and the NGC En­er­gyS­marTT App can be found on NGC’s web­site at www.ngc.co.tt.

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About Sus­tain TT… A non-prof­it com­pa­ny ded­i­cat­ed to Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Ed­u­ca­tion and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions. The NGO is ded­i­cat­ed to cre­at­ing a plat­form for ed­u­ca­tion, in­for­ma­tion shar­ing, and so­cial mar­ket­ing of be­hav­iours that are nec­es­sary to bet­ter man­age our en­vi­ron­ment while di­ver­si­fy­ing our econ­o­my. This is achieved through de­vel­op­ment and de­ploy­ment of in­no­v­a­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion tools and events. In the last five years Sus­tain TT has part­nered with sev­er­al oth­er re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al agen­cies.