REClimate winners meet in Copenhagen

Wednesday, 09 December 2009 12:10

After months of hard work, the Nordic video competition REClimate came to an end on Tuesday evening as the awards ceremony was held at the Klimaforum09 in Copenhagen, the global civil society counterpart of the official UN conference in the Bella Center.

Speaking at the ceremony, Danish Minister of Education and Nordic Cooperation Bertel Haarder expressed his admiration for the creativity and involvement shown by the filmmakers and emphasized in particular the importance of the fact that the films have been made in the Nordic languages.

The winning team from the Faroe Islands, Jákup Klein and Jóannes Martin Johannesen said they had a clear idea of what kind of film they wanted to make in order to communicate the climate issue. All three prize winning entries and one of the honorary prize entries were represented at the ceremony.

Out of 125 submitted films, the Faroese entry Burden was a favorite among both the viewers and the jury in the Nordic video competition REClimate. But the decision was not easy as one of the jury members, Danish actor Cyron Melville, confirmed when handing out the second and third prizes.

“All eight finalists were very good and it was a difficult decision,” Melville said.

All the film can be seen on the REClimate website.

Winners of the REClimate 2009 video competition, from left Benjamin Lee Nordsø from Denmark, Jákup Klein and Jóannes Martin from the Faroe Islands, Tiia Pääsky and Ruut Similä from Finland, Pétur Már Péturson from Iceland.