Film buffs and environmental activists join forces in Ghana for the seventh edition of Accra's green film festival.

The Environmental Film Festival of Accra was founded to showcase the best of Africa's environmental cinema and give a platform to those fighting to push green issues higher up the agenda.

Part of the festival is an award ceremony for the best environmental films of the year.

This year's first prize went to a film called Konko Car, about a boy who builds a car out of rubbish he finds in his neighborhood.

Nana Yaw Opoku Danso, film producer, said, "Everything that you saw in the movie is reality, I mean we are talking about the environment, most of the things we throw out as rubbish can be recycled and be made into so many things, just like the kid went to the rubbish pick up the cans made them into a car he recycle them, its the exception about the movie."

Festival organizers also encourage school children and new film makers to use film as a media to promote issues that are important to them.

Kwesi Owusu, director of fest organizer, said, "Essentially, educational issues are important particularly educating people about the environment, you know everything happens in the mind, you know and we want to try and influence attitude towards the environment, raise issues and basically help protect our environment."

The opening also featured a fashion show with all the models wearing clothes made from recycled waste.

The one-week festival, featured at a range of venues across the capital Accra, runs until Friday.

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