Catalogue AFO55

CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES
RECTOR’S FOREWORD
Dear fans of environmental films,
this year’s popular science film festival of the Czech University of
Life Sciences Prague is, for the first time, organised in cooperation
with the Academia Film Olomouc festival of Palacký University Olomouc.
We are glad that the collaboration between our two universities
and festivals can give you access to more films and projects.
The festival will also present some bonus materials – videos with
scientists commenting on the topics of their films or presenting
research in the area their films deal with. Perhaps these extra contributions,
along with the films we present, will help answer the
questions concerning the current global situation when natural
resources are being depleted, and the biodiversity of our planet is
in danger. The scientists and filmmakers representing the Czech
University of Life Sciences will present you films related to sustainable
development, new potential energy sources, nature preservation
and development of new technologies.
The collaboration of university film festivals is one of the few positive
events of 2020. And also one of the few events unrelated to the
pandemic the whole world is dealing with. It is a result of effective
negotiations and cooperation that will, hopefully, benefit you, the
viewers. The spread of the coronavirus has affected even the film
festival, and for that reason, it will be held online. I believe that the
absence of the traditional festival atmosphere will not diminish your
experience of the work of our colleagues. At the same time, I would
like to express my expectations for the next year, when the situation
will hopefully be calm enough to allow us, in cooperation with AFO,
organise the festival on the CZU campus, in Prague cinemas and
perhaps even the National Museum.
I wish you all a good time and good health.
PETR SKLENIČKA
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