Post date: Apr 29, 2012 12:11:14 PM
His Royal Highness was joined by veteran actor/director and festival founder Robert Redford, who has brought the event, usually held in Park City, Utah, across the Atlantic for the first time.
Sundance showcases low budget independent features and documentaries, as a counterweight to heavyweight blockbusters which usually dominate the world's cinema screens.
Robert Redford's Sundance London festival gets the royal treatment as The Prince of Wales premieres environmental documentary "HARMONY: A New Way of Looking at Our World" on Saturday (April 28).
LONDON, ENGLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (ROYAL POOL) - The Prince of Wales arrived at the Sundance London film and music festival in London on Saturday (April 28) ahead of a screening of new environmental documentary "HARMONY: A New Way of Looking at Our World", which he narrates.
"HARMONY: A New Way of Looking at Our World", by filmmakers Stuart Sender and Julie Bergman Sender portrays the Prince's environmental work over three decades. It also includes old footage from a previous documentary by His Royal Highness, including an interview from 1988 with former US Vice President Al Gore.
Speaking to the seated audience in the screening room, Redford praised the Prince's continuous efforts to address environmental issues.
"Well he (Charles) has his day job and I've got my day job but aside from that is an issue that we both share, we both have a common sharing feeling about the importance of our environment and sustainability and that has gone back years and years and years," he said.
Charles also thanked the American director for showing the film at the festival as well as for "saying nice things" about him.
The heir to the British throne, has long been supporting environmental causes, including lobbying for urgent measures to tackle climate change. With the film, the Prince said he hopes to encourage people to become more pro-active about environmental issues.
"I tried to indicate here and there that there are other ways of operating. There are alternatives, there are holistic integrated ways, more balanced ways, more harmonious ways of devising the way we interact with the world for the future. It isn't impossible, we made changes in the past when we need to. Now is the time I think, ladies and gentlemen to do so," he said.
The film was inspired by a book of the same name which the Prince had co-authored alongside BBC Radio 3 presenter Ian Skelly and British environmentalist Tony Juniper.
The Sundance London film and music festival runs until Sunday, April 29.