Socioenvironmental Film Award

The Environmental Sciences Museum has a long history of showcasing films that combine nature, ecology and social justice, making it the oldest of its kind in Mexico. It has offered the Socioenvironmental Film Sampler and the Anthropocene Film Series and Competition that were implemented with Cinema Planeta of Cuernavaca and the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences CALAS. The Socioenvironmental Film Award, organized by the Environmental Sciences Museum and the International Film Festival in Guadalajara, screens the best of socioenvironmental cinema from around the world.

Socioenvironmental Film Program in High Schools

The socioenvironmental film program takes place in the high schools of the Upper Secondary Education System of the University of Guadalajara as an extension of the activities promoted by the Environmental Sciences Museum during the International Film Festival in Guadalajara. The program has reached over 100 thousand students and teachers in over 25 states of Mexico. Post showing film debates take place within the high school facilities and involve the academic community, as well as invited specialists who assist in analyzing the films and contextualizing the socioenvironmental issues presented in them. The conversations center on the questions and concerns of the attending students.