Dear reader,
For the past three years, I’ve been the Creative Director for the Climate Action Film Festival and we’re about to debut our 2022 program.
What’s it all about? The Climate Action Film Festival is a curated selection of short films from around the world, all focused on the human response to our climate crisis. This year we’re hosting CAFF online, but I’m hopeful that we’ll be back to theaters next time.
What to expect in the films: In the UK, we’ll see a family living in an off-grid community while grappling with our planet’s future. In Malaysia, a global plastic waste crisis is on display, and local activists refuse to accept toxic pollution amidst rising sea levels. In California, we’ll go to the front lines of youth activists demanding action in the wake of devastating wildfires.
Why CAFF? To be short: the climate crisis poses an existential threat to a livable planet. Meanwhile, our media landscape is entirely centered on profit with increasingly less space for independent journalism and thoughtful filmmaking. For me, lending time and brain space to cultivating this platform has been a meaningful form of engagement with those two issues.
Our streaming event features 10 short films (about 5 each night) each followed by a filmmaker Q&A. You can even catch me hosting the second night (3/17) Q&A with the UK filmmakers who started Lemonade Money. If you’ve made it this far in my CAFF update, you deserve to know that I’m doing a bit of virtual public speaking.
More soon,
PM