The first edition of Green Island Festival concludes today in Isle of Youth, coinciding with the celebration of World Environment Day. For the day, a tree planting stands out with the purpose of reducing the carbon footprint generated by the Festival.
Events like this can help turn the country into a “beacon of environmental conservation” and help promote local development projects, consider the participants of the event.
“Right now there is no place in Cuba that has the characteristics to hold an event of this type,” he assured efe the journalist of the local television station Yuliet Pérez, one of the participants in the event promoted by the actor, film director and artist of the Cuban plastic Jorge Perugorria.
Pérez, who is also a creator of digital content, added that the event “will transcend not only the cinematographic, with the projections of documentaries and films, but also to create a social conscience towards the preservation of the environment.”
“This is a necessary event, it is not a fashion,” he stressed when stating that “the Island (of Youth) needs a lot of visibility, that people come to open the paths to development and grow in that sense.”
A review of his days
Isla Verde began on May 31 and closes its doors this Monday with a concert by Silvio Rodríguez at the Presidio Modelo, one of the historical places where Fidel Castro was imprisoned in the 1950s.
This first edition of the festival is not competitive, but it gave honorary prizes to the Mexican director Eleonora Isunza and the world record holder for Cuban freediving Deborah Andollo.
It also included a posthumous tribute to the Cuban singer Osmel Francis, who contributed his years of work to the preservation of the environment.
By the French filmmaker Yann Arthus-Bertrand they premiered at the Cine Caribe in Nueva Gerona home (2009) and Legacy, our heritage (Legacy, our heritage, 2021), says the source.
