Planet in Focus is an environmental film festival based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

History

Planet in Focus is an incorporated not-for-profit environmental film organization founded in 1999, by festival director Mark Haslam. They are affiliated with the Planet in Focus Foundation, a registered charitable organization.

Planet in Focus operates year-round to produce the annual Environmental Film Festival every October, as well as national and international film touring programs and a summer youth video production camp.

Their honorary patrons are the scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster David Suzuki, and philosopher, environmental activist and eco-feminist Vandana Shiva.

Notable films

Notable films screened at the festival have included:

  • 10 Billion: What's on Your Plate? - Valentin Thurn
  • After the Last River - Victoria Lean
  • Bad Coyote - Jason Andrew Young
  • The Birdman of Cooper Island - Kevin McMahon
  • Blue Gold: World Water Wars - Sam Bozzo
  • Bombhunters - Sky Fitzgerald
  • Dead Before Dawn - April Mullen
  • Everest Dark - Jereme Watt
  • Fairy Creek - Jen Muranetz
  • Geographies of Solitude - Jacquelyn Mills
  • The Ghosts in Our Machine - Liz Marshall
  • The Gold of Others (L'Or des autres) - Simon Plouffe
  • Happy People: A Year in the Taiga - Werner Herzog
  • Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth - Frauke Sandig, Eric Black
  • The Magnitude of All Things - Jennifer Abbott
  • Nechako: It Will Be a Big River Again - Lyana Patrick
  • Nuisance Bear - Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden