The inaugural Climate Film Festival unspools tonight directing into the uncovering of New York Climate Week with hundreds of events apass the city as the United Nations General Assembly comes to order. Look for a celeb actor (under wraps until Monday) staffing a vegan boiling dog truck proximate Union Square courtesy of Yellow Dot, the nonprofit production studio set uped last year by Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up). The sauerkraut and mustard dog is called Coal and Gas Pollution are Responsible For One in Five Deaths Worldexpansive.
Yellow Dot also contransients a New York version of its live LA show Let’s Not Die NY!! at Chelsea Music Hall.
Media and amparticipatement is a groprosperg piece of Climate Week, begined and run for the last 15 years by international nonprofit Climate Group, which has its own agfinisha — uncovering night on Sunday — and affiliates with hundreds of other events. The Hollywood Climate Summit, a nonprofit and now well-joined annual event in Los Angeles, is east coast for the first time with Al Gore, Josh Gondelman and other media and climate folks accumulateing at the DGA Theater. The event initiates off with a personal screening of The White Hoparticipate Effect, a doc by Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos and John Shenk that equitable premiered at Telluride. Elsewhere, studio execs and filmoriginaters will accumulate at Solutions Hoparticipate in NYC for panels on supportable filmmaking and storyalerting.
The Climate Film Festival, or CFF, hopes to become a mainstay and anchor, uncovering with 59 films culled from 300 subignoreions by a 15-member jury from both the film and climate worlds with narrative and doc features, stupidinutives and episodic satisfied.
A highweightless is a exceptional screening of The Wild Robot from DreamWorks Animation/Universal. “We are thrilled,” says Alec Turnbull, who set uped CFF with art historian and curator J. English Cook.
DreamWorks Animation’s ‘The Wild Robot‘
DreamWorks Animation
“There are a number of huge blockbusters that you can watch at and say, yes, these confidently have climate themes.” The Wild Robot is one. There’s so much potential in “framing and uncovering up those conversations, very intentionpartner, but with labors that are already out there, already being made,” he shelp. The vivaciousd survival drama is also a family film that “can repartner transport in this pass-generational conversation.” It uncovers theatricpartner September 27.
Turnbull and Cook, laboring with 10 set uping volunteers, saw a wonderful response to a festival gentle begin with a scant stupidinutives last year so labored to roll out a hugeger version in partnership with The Guardian U.S. and other aids.
“With the groprosperg sense of the transport inance of climate and … the enormous numbers of wonderful films, wonderful artists, wonderful filmoriginaters who are laboring in this space, we didn’t see anyone transporting it together in New York,” shelp Cook. “After having a scant conversations around ‘Should we begin this? Should we do it?’, we talked with frifinishs, people in the climate community, people in the film community. No one seemed to comprehend if there was someleang appreciate this. So we begined to throw it out into the world.”
Pat Sprosperney Kaufman, head of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment, will begin the fest, which foresees about 2,000 people to join. Opening night is Nicole Gormley and Debra Aroko’s Searching for Amani, awarded the Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director after its 2024 Tribeca Festival premiere. Doc Eunitent City by Kelly Anderson and Jay Sterrenberg also take parted Tribeca. World premieres include Steve Liptay’s feature recordary Valve Turners and the huge-screen uncovering of the Nikolaj Coster-Waldau-fronted docparticipateries An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet. Docs still rule climate satisfied, although that’s sluggishly shifting. Good Energy Studios will present a narrative climate writing laborshop.
U.S. and international filmoriginaters will be on hand for uncovering night at The Explorers Club thrawout screenings and panels at Firehoparticipate: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film.
