[IYRP General List] Sharing films on camelid pastoralism and on pastoralist women & girls

[Ann Waters-Bayer]

Dear all,

In support of the International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) in 2026, the Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP www.celep.info <http://www.celep.info/>) is collaborating with the Global Alliance for the IYRP (www.iyrp.info <http://www.iyrp.info/>) in collecting and curating films on pastoralism around the world. Films shown in the Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festivals (in Germany in 2019, in Czechia in 2022 and in Austria in 2024) can be found on the film-festival website (https://www.pastoralistfilmfestival.com <https://www.pastoralistfilmfestival.com/>).

A special theme in the call for the 3rd edition of films was “Camelid pastoralism”, intended primarily as part of the build-up to the IYRP2026 but also for the International Year of Camelids (IYC2024). Some members of the IYRP Alliance joined the CELEP film-festival team to assess the entries and selected the top 17 films for showing at events highlighting camelids for the IYC in 2024/25 and the IYRP2026. A one-pager with information about the films on camelid pastoralism is attached; it includes the link to the list of selected films posted on the IYRP website.

Another special theme was “Pastoralist women and girls”. Members of the IYRP Working Group on Pastoralism & Gender assessed the films submitted for this theme and selected their top 32.  A one-pager with information about the films on pastoralist women & girls is also attached; it includes the link to the list of selected films posted on the IYRP website.

If any of you are interested in organising screenings of films on pastoralism – either for a whole day or evening session or one or two films as part of a side event, webinar, seminar or the like, you can contact us (organisers of CELEP's Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festival) for recommendations of and links to relevant films. In addition to the above-mentioned themes, we have many more films on other themes, e.g on pastoralism and biodiversity conservation. Sharing these films can help to show people worldwide how pastoralist communities contribute to culture, economy and environment.

Let me take this opportunity also to wish you all the best in the New Year 2025 (at least according to the Gregorian calendar) – the final year of preparations for the IYRP2026.

Cheers,

Ann


Dr Ann Waters-Bayer
Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology
German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) Research Fellow
Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) Core Group
Secretariat of International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP) Global Alliance
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> On 20 Aug 2024, at 24:20 AM, Ann Waters-Bayer <waters-bayer at web.de> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> If any of you happen to find yourself in Vienna on 11 September this year, do drop by to see the films on camelid pastoralism that we are showing at the Tropentag conference held in BOKU (Peter Jordanstrasse 82, 1190 Vienna). This film festival is an event organised by CELEP in the name of the IYRP2026 and celebrating the International Year of Camelids 2024.
> 
> Several people in the IYRP2026 coalition were involved in the team that selected the films - including Francesca Pasetti, co-coordinator of the Regional IYRP Support Group in Europe, who will also be joining the event in Vienna, including the discussion after the screening of the films.
> 
> If any of you are interested in organising screenings of films on pastoralism - either for a whole evening, as in this case, or a couple of films as part of a side event, webinar, seminar or the like, you can contact us (organisers of CELEP's Perspectives on Pastoralism Film Festival) for recommendations of and links to relevant films. We have a list of top films about camelid pastoralism and another list of top films on pastoralist women & girls, which we can share with anyone who asks for them. We are currently selecting top films on pastoralism and biodiversity / nature conservation.
> 
> A selection of films from our pastoralism film festival will also be shown at the International Rangeland Congress (IRC2025) next June in Adelaide.
> 
> You can see which films were selected in the first and second editions of the film festival here (https://www.pastoralistfilmfestival.com/ <https://www.pastoralistfilmfestival.com/>).The films selected in the third edition will soon be posted on this site. 
> 
> If you have good films on pastoralism to share for the IYRP2026, you can submit them via the FilmFreeway website  (https://filmfreeway.com/PerspectivesonPastoralismFilmFestival <https://filmfreeway.com/PerspectivesonPastoralismFilmFestival>) or send them directly to me.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ann
> 
> <Film festival poster camelids Tropentag 2024 FINAL.pdf>
> <Announcement of camelid pastoralism film festival TT24.pdf>
> 
> Dr Ann Waters-Bayer
> Agrecol Association for AgriCulture & Ecology
> German Institute for Tropical & Subtropical Agriculture (DITSL) Research Fellow
> Coalition of European Lobbies for Eastern African Pastoralism (CELEP) Core Group
> International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists (IYRP2026) Global Secretariat
> E: waters-bayer at web.de <mailto:waters-bayer at web.de> / waters-bayer at agrecol.de <mailto:waters-bayer at agrecol.de> / a.waters-bayer at ditsl.org <mailto:a.waters-bayer at ditsl.org>
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