Youth in 70 countries are calling for climate action with more than 230 documentaries. The response to the Action4Climate competition has been overwhelming.
EARTH DAY SHOUTOUT: Let’s Act on Climate Change
Connect4Climate Takes Center Stage on Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day
The team at Connect4Climate is still soaring from the energy produced by the leaders, entertainers, visionaries, concerned citizens, and fans who attended Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day.
Connect4Climate Filmmakers Forum on Climate Change
While much of the United States was experiencing some of the coldest weather ever known in early January, fifteen international film directors got together in the balmy desert air of Palm Springs, California for frank and illuminating discussions on one of the most significant subjects of our tim
Congratulations to our new partner, Artists Project Earth!
Connect4Climate is exceptionally excited to announce our partnership with Artists Project Earth (APE)!
“Climate change means the death of the world as we know it”
Stephon Gabriel won the Voices4Climate Music Video category with A Changing World. And it is the changing world we are living in that lead this 21-years old entrepreneur to try to inspire others to rise up against climate change.
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A Changing World by Stephon Gabriel
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Celebrating Solutions for Climate Change
On her last day as European Commissioner for Climate Action, Connie Hedergaard delivered a climate movement-making speech at the Sustainia Awards Ceremony emphasizing, “A stands for
C4C Photo/Video Competition winners begin to receive their prizes
We are thrilled to start getting great images of our winners recieving and unpacking their awards from all over Africa. So far, the winners from Malawi and Egypt have sent us their unpacking images.
An unforgettable evening of sport for a great cause
It's a unique feeling when you have the sense that you are witnessing an historic moment.
An Argentinian dream arrives in Times Square
A violin player plays for his audience. He closes his eyes and imagines himself escaping with his instrument. Around him, trees, monuments, and animals are slowly melting because to global warming. But he keeps playing.
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From Cordoba to the big apple
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<p>The Action4Climate jury, which awarded the competition’s prizes, was led by filmmaker and screenwriter Bernardo Bertolucci. The jury also included <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV1MY5lid8A&feature=share&list=P…; target="_blank">Fernando Meirelles</a>, Walter Salles, and other recognizable names from the film industry as well as well-known specialists on climate change, such as <a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/resilience-right-here-right-no…; target="_blank">Rachel Kyte</a>, vice president of The World Bank.</p>
<p>The animated short was also projected on one of the famous screens in <a href="http://connect4climate.org/initiative/action4climate-times-square" target="_blank">New York City’s Times Square</a>, a location visited by more than 300,000 people every day.</p>
<p>Recently, Francina and Benjamín traveled to Buenos Aires to attend the <a href="http://www.ventanasur.com.ar/en/" target="_blank">Ventana Sur 2014 Festival</a>, one of the most important cinema markets in the region, where the film was showcased for hundreds of professionals from the cinema industry. There, the Argentinian film director <a href="http://vimeo.com/89320852" target="_blank">Pablo Trapero</a> – also member of the Action4climate jury – offered his compliments. “Trapero told us that he has loved our animation and that he saw it with his 12 years old son,” says Francina proudly.</p>
Action4Climate: An opportunity to inspire
A global competition for the best environmental documentary on climate change: That is Action4Climate. A contest launched by Connect4Climate.
