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Green Screen comes to Bristol
Remember the climate crisis? It’s been knocked off the headlines recently, for obvious reasons. But the threat to the planet hasn’t gone away, as a free day of films shortlisted for the RIFA Best Climate Emergency Film of the Year award reminds us.
Green Screen, which takes place at the Watershed on Sunday 27 March, comprises four events that include a panel discussion and an animation workshop.
A Stork’s Journey
The day kicks off at 10am with a family screening centred on the work of Waves of Change – a project helping young people tell stories about the impact of climate change on communities in Cornwall. The programme includes screenings of two award-nominated animations. A Stork’s Journey follows the migration of white storks as they navigate man-made perils on their journey from Germany to Sudan. The Promise explores a young girl’s introduction to rewilding. The Watershed’s environmental researcher Zoe Rasbash will interview the young Winds of Change filmmakers after the screening, and they will then lead a stop-motion animation workshop suitable for children aged 8-14.
The Promise
At 1pm, the Our Land Our Lives programme of shortlisted films centres on stories of how diverse communities in Bangladesh, Cornwall and Mexico are fighting to protect their land from environmental destruction. The screenings will be introduced by Suzi Cross, whose own film Newland: New Vision for a Wilder Future won last year’s award and is included in the programme.
That’s followed at 2:50pm by a discussion about how film can help in the fight against climate change. Panellists are Newland director Suzie Cross; filmmaker Adam Laity, whose A Short Film About Ice is screened in the Ice on Fire programme (see below); Alfie Warren Knight, Bristol-based founder of Film Strike for Climate, and Bristol-based Manu Maunganidze, who recently co-directed the excellent Rooted In Bristol.
A Short Film About Ice
Showing at 4:20pm, the final programme, Ice on Fire, is a themed collection of shorts exploring the destruction of ancient ice landscapes as a result of human activity. The films will be introduced by A Short Film About Ice director Adam Laity.
Admission to all events is free, but tickets must be booked in advance. Go here for full details.
All images supplied by Watershed. Main pic from ‘Kii Nche Ndutsa’ (Time and the Seashell), screened in the Our Land Our Lives programme.
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