Using film to scale local circular economy solutions around the world
Our film dialogues bring together diverse stakeholders, uncovering opportunities for collaboration, turning awareness into immediate local action, and strengthening a global network of communities driving systemic change.
Trees & Seas Film Festival 2025 (TSFF)
Turning The Power of Film Into The Power of Action
From September 20th to 29th, 2025
End to Plastic Pollution Requires Systemic Change
We are an international nonprofit organization working since 2012 with local communities on ending plastic pollution. Our work has shown that long-lasting and systemic solutions require a strong understanding of local realities and collaboration between stakeholders. This led us to develop a film dialogue model, centered around community participation.
Our Participatory Film Impact Model is a series of screenings and dialogues where community stakeholders come together to discuss how each film relates to their local realities and current actions. From these dialogues, we identify knowledge gaps, local barriers to action, and opportunities for collaboration to support scaling circular solutions.
Film as a Starting Point for Deeper Conversations
We use film to create a shared starting point for dialogue, where all voices can relate and engage with the same story, and contribute equally.
Democratizing the Learning Process
Shared Experience with Stakeholders
Establishing Common Ground
SEE+Δ (See Positive Change) is our film library and film distribution service. Here, you can discover the films we use for our dialogues and to create change around the world.
Impact Around The World
Film is influencing circular economy policies and sparking new local initiatives.
Advancing Chile's Circular Economy 2040 Roadmap
BlueCommunities
Our BlueCommunities Network is made up of local organizations that are using our participatory film model (link to about us page) to scale their circular projects. Using film as the tool, each BlueCommunity hosts multistakeholder dialogues around circular economy challenges that can uncover knowledge gaps and opportunities for collaboration.
Stories of Impact
Clean Ocean Ghana
Accra-Ghana, Ghana
In an attempt to achieve favorable climatic conditions, our project has made strides to ensure a sustainable and conservative coastal ecosystem through conscious advocacy, effective public education and other climate action initiatives.
Saving Our Sharks
Cancun, Mexico
In order to know the spatial and temporal movements of bull sharks that visit Playa del Carmen every year, an acoustic telemetry system has been implemented with which they can be tracked along the entire coast of the state.