New Horizon in Snow Mountain, a documentary co-produced by China Central Television and South-North Institute for Sustainable Development, has just won the 2nd Prize of Environmental Protection TV Program Competition, 2003 China Sichuan TV Festival.

The 15-minute film is about a project implemented by the Institute to help local Tibetans develop biogas as energy. Local residents and program officers from SNISD are interviewed in the documentary. The project was funded by Shell Foundation. For more information about the project, please visit our website and that of Shell Foundation: www.shellfoundation.org.

Sichuan TV Festival is an international TV event co-sponsored by State Radio, Movie and TV Bureau and Sichuan Provincial Government. It has attracted more than one thousand participants from 25 countries including the USA, Japan, UK, France, etc.

The making of the documentary was also funded by Shell Foundation.　The film, directed by Li Li and hosted by Zhao Zhongxiang, one of the most prestigious TV hosts in China, was made in the end of the year 2002 and broadcast in Man & Nature, one of the most popular TV programs in China.

Photo: the honor certificate issued by the Festival