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Sustain What? Telling Climate Stories on Screen

April 25, 2023
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
America/New_York
Online

Join longtime journalist Andy Revkin of the Columbia Climate School in an exploration of the latest efforts to use film and TV to engage audiences with human-driven climate change.

Andy’s guests are:

Scott Z. Burns, writer, director and executive producer of the Apple TV+ series “Extrapolations” (Among many other credits, Burns also wrote the screenplay for the prescient 2011 pandemic thriller “Contagion”)

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1994243

Extrapolations is an eight-part limited series interlacing a globe-spanning, time-spanning set of climate stories from the near future. The final segment runs on Friday April 21.
Show info: https://apple.co/3Kwat2s

Anna Jane Joyner, founder of Good Energy, a nonprofit consultancy helping filmmakers tackle climate-related themes. 
https://www.goodenergystories.com

Ben Eckersley, an early-career filmmaker focused on telling climate stories that reveal “how our economic needs conflict with environmental and ethical aspirations.”
https://www.animula.net

Please click here for more information and viewing options; https://www.earth.columbia.edu/videos/view/telling-climate-stories-on-screen

Contact Information

Andy Revkin