Published on : Wednesday, April 17, 2019
The Amorgos Festival, as of 2017, is a member of the international organization CIFFT, in Vienna. The festival has every day projections during the Yperia Conference, at Aegialis Hotel & Spa. Every year, it honors the best choices of documentaries, and travel films that play an important role in the development of domestic and foreign tourism and to the implementation of green practices.
The main aim of the festival is to develop an international platform to encourage global tourism through audio-visual media. Every year, the best films along with documentaries and activities that contribute to domestic and foreign tourism development and the execution of green practices, are awarded. Tourism films are an excellent opportunity to highlight important issues and highlight the cultural and environmental richness of a place.
For the 4th consecutive year, the Festival hosts the tribute “Youth & Employment, Women & Employment” is implemented through the Operational Program & Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning and is co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund) and Greek state. The co-funded projects of the festival handle the development of education and employment in Greece. Its prime targets relate to the development and promotion of human resources skills, activities against unemployment, strengthen social cohesion and social inclusion of vulnerable social groups, improvement of the quality of education & lifelong learning, awareness on environmental education, linking education with the labor market. The film tribute has free admission and it’s accessible to disabled people.
The Festival targets: