SunChild International Environmental Festival
SunChild International Environmental Festival was established in 2007 by wildlife filmmaker and conservationist Ruben Khachatryan. The Festival screens wildlife and environmental films from all over the world and hosts workshops, exhibitions and media campaigns designed to foster a culture of environmental stewardship. During the 10 years of the festival’s existence, more than 700 films from 150 countries around the world have been screened. The SunChild International Environmental Festival is the first and only of its kind in the South Caucasus region.
The Festival takes place in autumn, but it also ”travels’’ in the regions of Armenia throughout the whole year, involving a large number of children and youth, facilitating identification and creative solutions of community environmental issues by organizing thematic film screenings, discussions and other initiatives, encouraging and supporting to take action locally.
The SunChild IEF usually takes place in Yerevan, but in 2018 the festival was held in Vardahovit community, Armenia, taking hundreds of enthusiastic people to the rural area for three days.
SunChild IEF logo was created from ancient Armenian petrographic symbols used six thousand years ago, which also later was found in ancient Egyptian symbols. The sun-shaped symbol symbolizes the people or the living world, and the small curved symbol inside symbolizes prosperity and growth.