EE Screen Festival intends to direct 10% of all profits to work that creates measurable benefit beyond the screen industry, beginning with a deep commitment to ocean preservation and marine life.
EE Screen Festival is built to celebrate ambitious screen stories and create meaningful opportunity for filmmakers, audiences and the wider creative community. We believe that growth should also create a contribution beyond the industry itself.
As the festival grows, EE Screen Festival intends to direct 10% of all profits toward work that protects life, restores ecosystems and expands opportunity for children in need. This is part of how the festival defines success.
The commitment is deliberately based on profits, so that the festival’s growth can create a growing contribution over time. EE Screen Festival intends to identify work that can demonstrate meaningful benefit, with a primary emphasis on ocean preservation and marine life. No partnerships or donations are represented as confirmed until they are formally established.
Oceans regulate climate, sustain extraordinary biodiversity, produce much of the oxygen we breathe and connect every coastline, community and generation. Yet marine environments are under relentless pressure from pollution, habitat loss, warming waters and overexploitation.
For a festival held on the Côte d’Azur, the connection is direct. The sea is part of the experience, the setting and the identity of the week. EE Screen Festival intends to place ocean preservation and the protection of marine life at the centre of its wider impact commitment.
Oceans support extraordinary biodiversity and remain central to life on Earth. EE Screen Festival intends to support work that helps remove pollution, protect marine environments and contribute to cleaner, healthier ocean ecosystems.
Forests protect biodiversity, absorb carbon, preserve water systems and shelter countless species. The intended commitment may support restoration and reforestation work that helps damaged landscapes recover over time.
Wildlife conservation is essential to the health and balance of the natural world. The festival intends to support efforts that protect vulnerable animal populations and the habitats upon which they depend.
Some species require long-term, focused intervention to recover. Support may contribute to initiatives working to restore threatened populations and protect the conditions needed for them to survive.
Education can change the course of a life. EE Screen Festival intends to support initiatives that give children in need greater access to learning, possibility and a stronger future.
Film cannot solve every crisis, but it can make distant realities personal. It can bring audiences closer to the beauty of the natural world, the urgency of its protection and the people working to preserve it.
EE Screen Festival welcomes work that sees environmental storytelling not as a niche subject, but as part of the wider human story. The festival’s Ocean and Environmental Films category gives this work a clear home within the programme.
The impact commitment ensures that care for the living world is reflected not only in the stories we screen, but in how the festival grows.
EE Screen Festival will communicate impact activity as the festival develops and commitments are formally established. The aim is not simply to raise awareness, but to direct a meaningful percentage of profits toward work that can be followed, understood and measured over time.
The festival will not claim progress before it exists. It will share confirmed activity responsibly, with clarity around what has been supported and why.
Whether you are bringing a story, supporting the festival or joining us in Côte d’Azur, you can be part of a screen celebration designed to create opportunity—and leave more life in the world than it found.
