HERZOGENAURACH, GERMANY -- Stitch + Spice, a short film by Luke Jaque-Rodney, one of PUMA’s Voices of a RE:GENERATION has been officially selected for Documentary Short at the 6th Big Syn International Film Festival in London.

Voices of a RE:GENERATION is a PUMA initiative highlighting young changemakers driving positive change in their communities. Through this platform, PUMA aims to inspire the next generation to support a more sustainable future and forms part of the brand’s wider missions to communicate sustainability in a transparent and digestible way. Stitch + Spice is a short documentary captured at PUMA's supplier factories in Vietnam and Bangladesh featuring Luke, a food and nutrition vlogger, who shares meals and engages with garment workers, showcasing their lives, perspectives and cultures. Earlier this year Stitch & Spice was nominated for best sustainability fashion film at the London Fashion Film Festival and received a 2024 Impact Docs Merit Award.

The Big Syn online festival screening which took place from 17-26 October featured nearly 150 films reaching over 45 million people in 120 countries led by a Grand Jury of OSCAR, BAFTA and EMMY award-winners and leaders from the United Nations, House of Lords, as well as sustainability, policy and media stalwarts.

Festival founders, Dr Ragini G Roy and Dr Sourav Roy, commented “The festival features films from student filmmakers to ones from global legends such as OSCAR winners Sir Ian McKellen (X Men, Lord of the Rings) and Sir David Mark Rylance (Spielberg's The BFG) amongst others; documentaries from acclaimed EMMY and BAFTA winning filmmakers.”

Winners will be declared on 8th November at the red-carpet gala awards ceremony at Curzon Soho and all the winners will be featured on Europe‘s biggest screen, London’s Piccadilly Lights on 14th November 2024.