This year's tve Global Sustainability Film Awards, presented in London at the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA), have gone to film Lipstick Under My Burkha, produced by Prakash Jha and directed by Alankrita Shrivastava. Surina Narula, the founder of the award, gave away the honour.
This year, for the first time the Founder's Award for Sustainability on the Big Screen was introduced at an event in Cannes by The Telegraph Media Group.
In the absence of Prakash Jha, the award was received by actress Gabriella Wright who is also a film producer and philanthropist working for women's rights. While receiving the award she said she felt an emotional bond with the film as the issue was very close to her heart. Judges for the Founder's Award for Sustainability on the Big Screen were Richard Creasey, managing director of BFC Media Ltd, owner of Moscow's first IMAX theatre; Denise Parkinson, entertainment director, global and UK for the Telegraph Media Group, and Surina Narula MBE.
The panel was chaired by award-winning cinematographer, director and screenwriter Steven Bernstein. In the Reshaping the Economy category the winner was Neste for Everybody Dies, But Not Everybody Lives and Highly Commended was World Animal Protection for Ghost Gear.
In the Transforming Society category in partnership with Grace Bian, chair, China International Culture Stock Exchange, the winner was Co-op Group - Great Things Happen When We Work Together and Highly Commended was P&G - Meet Bechibila.
In the Protecting the Environment category the winner was Selfridges for Material World and Highly Commended was Good Energy for The Butterfly Thief by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner.