The Big Picture: Representing Our Climate-Altered World On-Screen

This event will premiere on January 24, 2023 at 11am PST/ 2pm EST as part of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
NRDC's Rewrite the Future presents a panel conversation with Hollywood professionals to discuss creative strategies for representing climate in film and on TV. Featuring Roxane Gay (author of Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, Hunger, and the Marvel Comic World of Wakanda) in conversation with Franklin Leonard (founder and CEO of the Black List).
Topics will include the creative opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls of climate representation across genres and the potential of storytelling to shift cultural narratives, build social movements, and inspire action.
Presented by NRDC’s Rewrite the Future in collaboration with the Sundance Institute, Variety, Writers Guild of America East, Writers Guild of America West and YEA! Impact.
NRDC's Rewrite the Future aims to enlist the power of storytelling to help address the climate crisis. It offers a range of support to encourage more, varied and compelling climate stories in entertainment, including content experts and story consulting, events and workshops, and help with new project development. To learn more, please visit: www.nrdc.org/r... or email [e-mail].
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[@anastasiafoster8654]

Thank you for making this available to the public. Popcorn ready!

[@hisanipdubose516]

Thank you for doing this. I already have a screenplay that incorporates rising sea levels and it placed as a finalist in a Screencraft competition. This is encouraging.

[@michealbrennan]

Mil were❤🎉😢🎉🎉❤

[@Number4lead]

Rising sea levels. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mainhalo117]

Whoopty dooo, more equity talk but no equality. “You will own nothing and be happy”

[@flordemielmedia]

Thank you both for such an important conversation, tons of food for thought and inspiration as a filmmaker, especially how storytelling is the first & most important element to telling a great climate story.

[@casbeck]

Brilliant and Inspiring! Q: Can we still view chat replay? Lots of great resources, not loading today. Copy/paste during event only got portions. Ms. Gay: “What are some of the ways that we can take care, and how can we demonstrate that care in the stories that we tell?” SHELL YES, let’s make gorgeous, entertaining stories of taking care: - CC activism of all flavors means risk (stakes). Let's draw multi-layered characters who'll stand out from the herd to speak out, with loved ones, in the workplace, social media, and communities, and resolve the conflicts that arise. - Cynical media churns out violence like candy. Let’s show the connecting, cooperative sides of human nature at play. - We feel limited by individual and generational traumas of all kinds. Let’s show ways we can heal and build trust to make the little and big changes we need to survive the Anthropocene. stepping down from her storyteller soapbox, Bless us all!

[@vaniacescon3594]

This is a must watch!

[@natashanutkiewicz5571]

When will the blacklst / nrdc going to announce the finalist for the climate storytelling competition ?

[@Number4lead]

Climate change. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 yep the climate is changing all the time, has done for millions.

[@lynnvincentnathan3223]

Let me know of any climate change screenwriting groups. Thanks.