Upcoming Biodiversity & Climate Film
The Borrowed Earth Project has previously put together two films on the impact of climate change, and how to address it, under our original name of COP26 and beyond.
We are now working on our third film, on Biodiversity and Climate Change, and plan to have it made in time for COP28, but almost as important, we are keen to contact youth climate groups who may be interested in showing it and discussing it with their members, so if that includes you, please get in touch!
Our first film was Using the Law to Fix Climate Change
This was made with the help of friends at Eastside Educational Trust, and featured four young filmmakers in the East End of London interviewing four youth climate activists and leaders about their ideas for using law to address climate change: Jodie Bailey-Ho in the UK, Kevin Mtai in Kenya, Kelo Uchendu in Nigeria and Tom Webster Arbizu in Australia. We took that film to fringe meetings at COP26 in Glasgow, and showed it at other events in the run up to those climate negotiations.
Our second film last year was Climate Carnage in Pakistan
This was a response to the devastating floods in 2022 and especially their impacts on education in the country. Most of the footage for that was provided by field workers from the National Commission for Human Development ‘NCHD’ and the film was edited by The Borrowed Earth Project’s Sam Wilson, who also wrote the music for it. Our friends at MOCK COP helped us to get the film shown at the Children and Youth Pavilion at the COP27 climate talks in Sharmh el Sheikh. The film was Highly Commended at the Frome International Climate Change Festival, an award which we dedicated to the NCHD for their work on literacy and flood relief in Pakistan.
For our new film, we are aiming to show what biodiversity is, why it matters, how it is under pressure, the links with climate change, what steps are being taken to address that, such as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, and how Biodiversity needs the energies and commitment of youth activists alongside climate change, to help turn around one of the biggest mass extinctions and losses of species in world history.
We are collecting some incredible footage, not least from the Pantanal in Brazil – thanks to Xavier Tobin – but also from UNEP, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst, filmmaker Tom Hanner, Open Seas and others.