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Sustainable Future Award

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The Sustainable Future Award, with a cash prize of $40,000, is the largest environmental film prize in the world.

The Sustainable Future Award amplifies voices for environmental progress. Made possible through philanthropic support from Amanda Maple-Brown, this $40,000 prize is the largest in the world dedicated to environmental-led cinema. The Award is a beacon, harnessing cinema’s mass reach to rally people around the most global and urgent issues of today.

The Guardian is the Official Media Partner of the Sustainable Future Award films.

Past Event
Documentary
Ceremony
This hybrid film flows through Nuxalk lands, lives and rivers where the ooligan fish no longer swim – tracing memory, ceremony, and the ripples of colonialism. Audience winner, SXSW.
Past Event
Documentary
Just Look Up
This pressing documentary follows Michael Greenberg, the leader of the climate activist group Climate Defiance which is fighting for the planet's future. Award winner, CPH:DOX 2026.
Past Event
Documentary
Nuisance Bear
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary at Sundance, this urgent doc follows polar bears in Manitoba struggling to adapt to a world transformed by climate change.
Past Event
Guest
Documentary
Sukundimi Walks Before Me
This powerful doc follows an Indigenous PNG community’s campaign to preserve their future, when the Sepik River, ‘the Amazon of the Asia-Pacific’, is threatened by mining.
Past Event
Documentary
Time and Water
Oscar nominee Sara Dosa’s (Fire of Love, SFF 2022) latest stunner sees writer Andri Snær Magnason reflect on family, memory and Iceland’s disappearing glaciers. Sundance 2026.
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We honour the storytelling and culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia.

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