CCEG SOCIAL VALUE & INTANGIBLES REVIEW at the United Nations COP22 Climate Summit in Marrakesh in November. The Film4Climate Global Video Competition is open to all between the ages of 14 – 35, to submit short films up to 5 minutes in length, or Public Service Advertisements up to 60 seconds long, anytime between June 20 and September 15, 2016. Submissions are accepted through film4climate.net. See the competition trailer here: vimeo.com/171117213. An elite panel of film industry producers, directors, and writers, chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci, will choose the winning entries. Bertolucci is joined on the jury by Oscar-winning Directors and Producers as well as luminaries of cinema, communications and the environment, including Mohamed Nasheed, climate champion and former president of the Maldives, producer Lawrence Bender (An Inconvenient Truth, Pulp Fiction), director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Saving Face, A Girl in the River), director Louie Psihoyos (The Cove, Racing Extinction), director Fernando Meirelles (City of God, The Constant Gardener).
Meirelles has supported Connect4Climate’s engagement with the film industry and was on the previous competition’s jury: “Climate change is the biggest challenge humankind will
face in the next century and what has to be done to mitigate the effects of climate change must start with us, from bottom to top.”
Other jury members include director Robert Stone (Radio Bikini, Pandora’s Promise), director Mika Kaurismaki (Zombie and the Ghost Train), director Pablo Trapero (Carancho, El Clan), producer Martin Katz (Hotel Rwanda), Ann Hornaday, Chief Film Critic of The Washington Post, Sheila Redzepi, Vice President for External and Corporate Relations, World Bank Group, Moroccan director Farida Benlyazid (Frontieras, Keïd Ensa), Carole Tomko, General Manager and Creative Director of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions,
Maria Wilhelm, Executive Director of the Avatar Alliance Foundation, Pat Mitchell, President and CEO of the Paley Center for Media, Rose Kuo, CEO and Artistic Director of the Qingdao International Film Festival, and Mark Lynas, author and environmentalist (The God Species, Six Degrees). With strong support from the creative industry, and inspiring momentum for a global solution to climate change, as presented through the historical signing of the Paris Climate Change Agreement at the United Nations in April, the world is on track to solve one of our generation’s greatest challenges. As Nick Nuttall, Head of Communications for the UNFCCC, emphasizes: “In order to unleash the full potential of the
Paris Climate Change Agreement towards a better, more climate-safe world, all sectors of society and all walks of life need to be on board, including the creative industries. We are therefore delighted to be working with Connect4Climate to raise awareness on how the film industry can fast forward its contribution, and to showcase these achievements in Morocco in November at the next UN climate change conference.”
Embracing youth solutions Winning films will be distributed globally as examples of how society is embracing the climate challenge and taking actions to transition to a low-carbon resilient future. Throughout history, when young people have finally had enough of excuses and failure from the preceding generations, they have gathered or voted to demand change. It is often said that this generation is the first to end poverty and the last to tackle climate change. The Film4Climate Global Video Competition [film4climate.net] aims to show how that change will take place. Comparing the role of young people in the movement to liberation in South Africa, World Bank Climate Change Senior Director John Roome emphasizes the importance of youth in
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