Seagate Supports Environmental Conservation Through Global Eco Film Festival

Seagate Supports Environmental Conservation Through Global Eco Film Festival

Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX), the world’s leading hard drive maker, and Nippon Seagate Inc., its affiliate in Japan, today announced Seagate’s support of the EARTH VISION Global Environmental Film Festival. The festival was established as a means to address, through film and video, the environmental issues facing society on a global scale. Along with its ongoing implementation of community and social responsibility activities inaugurated in 2005 to mark the 20th anniversary of Seagate’s establishment in Japan, the company is collaborating with the EARTH VISION Organization (president: Hiroshi Okazaki, president of the global environmental forum, secretary general: Hiroo Nozawa, Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) to highlight the importance of addressing global environmental concerns.

The 14th EARTH VISION Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival attracts large numbers of entries from around the world and looks at environmental problems from a range of perspectives. The competition category division of the festival attracted 101 entries from 16 countries and territories around the world and the winning entries were screened in Tokyo.

The winner of the EARTH VISION Grand Prize at this year’s festival was a work called “Rainbow” by Palestinian director Abdalsalam Shehada. Seagate donated a 400-GB 3.5-inch external hard drive as a supplementary prize, and presented all prizewinners with 5-GB Seagate Pocket Hard Drives.

EARTH VISION Organization’s secretary general, Hiroo Nozawa, said: “We would like to express our gratitude to Seagate and other sponsors without whose cooperation the EARTH VISION Tokyo Global Environmental Film Festival, including this year’s event, would not be possible. Through the medium of film, our sponsors not only assist in public education activities, which are extremely vital for protecting the environment of the earth on which we live our daily lives, but also provide the support that enables those films to be seen by larger numbers of people. This support encourages us and spurs us on as we continue our activities.”

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