Using film to scale local circular economy solutions around the world

Our film dialogues bring together diverse stakeholders, uncovering opportunities for collaboration, turning awareness into local action, and strengthening a global network of communities driving systemic change.

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Trees & Seas Film Festival 2025

Thank you for an amazing year!

The Trees & Seas Film Festival is an international initiative connecting global audiences both online and in-person hosted by community partners around the world.

Meet the Winners

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End to Plastic Pollution Requires Systemic Change

We are an international nonprofit organization working since 2012 with local communities on ending plastic pollution. Our work has shown that long-lasting and systemic solutions require a strong understanding of local realities and collaboration between stakeholders. This led us to develop a film dialogue model, centered around community participation.

Our Participatory Film Impact Model is a series of screenings and dialogues where community stakeholders come together to discuss how each film relates to their local realities and current actions. From these dialogues, we identify knowledge gaps, local barriers to action, and opportunities for collaboration to support scaling circular solutions.

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Film as a Starting Point for Deeper Conversations

We use film to create a shared starting point for dialogue, where all voices can relate and engage with the same story, and contribute equally.

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Democratizing the Learning Process

A man with a beard and a woman with glasses and a black hat talking at a table with brochures and toys, at a booth for Plastic Oceans, with a blue stage and large screen in the background.

Shared Experience with Stakeholders

A woman with curly dark hair wearing an orange shirt and a blue lanyard sits at a table in front of a blue and green banner with marine images and text promoting environmental causes. She is engaged in a conversation with two people whose backs are to the camera. The table has drinks, including a lemon and mint beverage and a green bottled drink.

Establishing Common Ground

Three overlapping documentary film posters featuring fishing themes, with the central one titled 'Raid on the Atlantic' showing a person sitting in front of the ocean, and the left one titled 'The Fisherman Net' depicting two men in a small fishing boat.

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SEE+Δ (See Positive Change) is our film library and film distribution service. Here, you can discover the films we use for our dialogues and to create change around the world.

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Impact Around The World

Film is influencing circular economy policies and sparking new local initiatives.

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Advancing Chile's Circular Economy 2040 Roadmap

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BlueCommunities

Our BlueCommunities Network is made up of local organizations that are using our participatory film model to scale their circular projects. Using film as the tool, each BlueCommunity hosts multi-stakeholder dialogues around circular economy challenges that can uncover knowledge gaps and opportunities for collaboration.

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Stories of Impact

Clean Ocean Ghana

Accra-Ghana, Ghana

Group of volunteers and community members on a beach, with some wearing yellow safety suits and orange helmets, surrounded by wheelbarrows, under a blue sky with some clouds.

In an attempt to achieve favorable climatic conditions, our project has made strides to ensure a sustainable and conservative coastal ecosystem through conscious advocacy, effective public education and other climate action initiatives.

Saving Our Sharks

Cancun, Mexico

A shark swimming underwater surrounded by black and blue striped fish.

In order to know the spatial and temporal movements of bull sharks that visit Playa del Carmen every year, an acoustic telemetry system has been implemented with which they can be tracked along the entire coast of the state.

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