Tokyo festival seeks to save tropical forests through cinema

Cinema as a Tool to Save the Tropics and the Amazon is a prelude to the Saturday Short Film Festival in Tokyo in order to raise funds and raise awareness of the importance of these environments at the global level.

The event is called ‘jungle movies’is an initiative of a non-profit organization based in the United States Rainforest Partnership, whose educational meetings and funds aim to protect the forests and tropical forests of Peru and Ecuador.

“Our goal is to convey the message about the importance of tropical forests in a visual way,” explains Deny Majikina. “We try to make the audience who live in cities understand what life in the forests is like, and the best way is to watch movies.” to EFE. , project coordinator in the Japanese capital.

Majikina, who was born in Peru and is of Japanese descent, explains that Japan is a center for environmental defense, with a society Very aware of this topic Lots of interest in nature and forests.

“This is the good thing about Japan,” says Majikina regarding the Japanese concept of “Shinrin-yoku.” “Besides having a very big city, they admire nature a lot with things like ‘bathing in the forest.’” Like bathing in the forest to feel a greater connection to nature.

For Peruvians, Japanese nature is much more different and controlling than that of the Amazon, but the idea is “to make people understand that climatic changes associated with deforestation in tropical forests affect us all.”

Today’s event, expected to be an annual event, was attended by a hundred people, in which ten short films were shown to indicate the importance and strength of forests and why we must save them, as well as a way to raise funds for the organization.