Sustainability Prize
The Sustainability Prize, launched by Creo and Sony, invites filmmakers passionate about communicating key themes linked to the Sustainable Development Goals, including environment, accessibility, diversity, equity and inclusion.
Set up to amplify the smaller stories exploring these social and environmental issues, the initiative spotlights one short film from the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards and one series from the Sony World Photography Awards Professional competition.
The Sustainability Prize is part of Creators for the Planet, a global year-round engagement program set up by Sony Pictures and the United Nations Foundation, developed in collaboration with Creo. Creators for the Planet aims to mobilise and inspire people to act now through photography and film.
Each winner will receive $5,000, Sony digital imaging equipment and promotion across the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards and the World Photography Organisation channels and websites. The work of the winners will also get the chance to be honored at a showcase hosted by the United Nations Foundation and Sony Pictures.
2024: Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area, Solmund MacPherson
Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area follows a group of Toronto citizens fed up with the rising cost of living who are renouncing their personhood en masse to legally become animals, forming a society of "Wildmen" in the city's vast ravine network.
2023: The Good Dolphins, Pedro Furtado
In the estuary of Laguna, in the south of Brazil, there is a special group of Dolphins that are known to help the fishermen catch their favorite fish, mullet. The fishermen call them “The Good Dolphins” and they have been working together for the last 150 years.
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