For the past 14 years, the Lanzarote Film Festival has been working to integrate measures related to sustainability and equality. Continuing with this line of attention to issues considered fundamental by Tenique Cultural, a non-profit association in charge of organizing the project, the Film Festival will take a qualitative leap in its next edition in terms of its environmental and egalitarian concerns, and will do so with the incorporation of new corrective measures and training workshops for the team responsible for organizing the project.
The company Birding Canarias, specialized in ecotourism and biodiversity conservation, will be responsible for analyzing all the actions that are carried out during the planning, organization and assembly phases of the Film Festival to, subsequently, implement measures related to mobility, water and energy consumption, noise and light pollution, waste generation, disturbances to biodiversity and the local population, and local economic development.
At the end of its celebration, the event will be subjected to an eco-audit through an active and participatory procedure, which involves the entire attending community, so that, in addition to being a means to produce tangible improvements in the quality of the project, it will also operate as a formula for individual and collective learning.
Regarding the effective integration of the gender perspective in the organization's policies, programs, structures and procedures, including decision-making and budgetary processes, the Lanzarote Film Festival will be audited by the non-governmental organization Opcióate. The entity, of state scope and based in Gran Canaria, will collect documentation and interview people responsible for the association to develop a prior diagnosis and propose actions of egalitarian vocation. It will also give a face-to-face training workshop on equality to the staff.
In this line, the president of Tenique Cultural and artistic director of the Lanzarote Film Festival, Javier Fuentes, recalls that since its inception, the project has been characterized by investigating, making visible and reinforcing the trajectories of women professionals in the audiovisual sector "in order to contribute to the recognition of their cinematographic production and to their consolidation as female references for young promises who can bring a new perspective to this cultural expression".