Creators for the Planet is a global year-round engagement program set up by Sony Pictures and the United Nations Foundation, developed in collaboration with Creo. Creators for the Planet aims to mobilise and inspire people to Act Now through photography and film.
Sony World Photography Awards and Sony Future Filmmaker Awards
As part of Creators for the Planet, Sony and Creo developed the Sustainability Prize, a program that invites photographers and filmmakers passionate about communicating key themes linked to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Set up to amplify the smaller stories exploring these social and environmental issues, the initiative spotlights one series from the Sony World Photography Awards Professional competition and one short film from the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards.
The Sustainability Prize winners each receive $5,000, plus a range of Sony digital imaging equipment. The winners will be revealed through a digital announcement across the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards and World Photography Organisation websites and social media channels.
SONY WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
2025 Winner
Kasia Strek | Repairing the Earth
© Kasia Strek, Poland, Winner, Sustainability Prize, Sony World Photography Awards 2025.
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 | Kasia Strek is a Polish documentary photographer and journalist. Her work focuses on the intersections of gender, social inequalities, and the impact of climate change on the environment, highlighting underrepresented topics of social importance. She has received numerous recognitions, including the Pulitzer Grant for Crisis Reporting, the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award, and Visa Pour l'Image Camille Lepage Award. Her work is published by leading media outlets and exhibited worldwide. |
2024 Winner
Kathleen Orlinsky | America's First Wilderness
2023 Winner
Alessandro Cinque | Atrapanieblas (Fog Nets)
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SONY FUTURE FILMMAKER AWARDS
2025 Winner
Kirsten Slemint
Burnt Country
Could Australia’s past help secure its future? 65,000 years in the making, Burnt Country is about fighting fire, with fire. Exploring the profound knowledge and wisdom of First Nations, this film is an invitation to connect to country and community.
 | A scientist, journalist and filmmaker, Kirsten Slemint has a keen and curious eye for story. She is a Shooting PD, Writer, Researcher, and Impact Producer. Her work tends to explore the intersections between people and nature, and is driven by her specific interest in social impact. |
2024 Winner
Solmund MacPherson
Wildmen of the Greater Toronto Area
This short film follows a group of Toronto citizens fed up with the rising cost of living who are renouncing their personhood en masse to legally become animals, forming a society of "Wildmen" in the city's vast ravine network.
2023 Winner
Pedro Furtado (Brazil)
The Good Dolphins
The short film tells the story of a group of fishermen in Brazil fighting to save a pod of dolphins who have helped them catch fish across generations.
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Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. In 2015, world leaders came together and made a historic promise to secure the rights and well-being of everyone on a healthy, thriving planet when they adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 SDGs. The Agenda remains the world’s roadmap for ending poverty, protecting the planet and tackling inequalities.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS HERE
Act Now For Our Common Future
Creative storytelling has the power to inspire a new way forward to take care of our planet. Every one of us can help limit global warming by making choices that have less harmful effects on the environment. We don’t have to wait for the future we want—we can create it right now. Be part of the solution and join in the United Nations campaign for individual action on climate change and sustainability: Act Now.
