MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Short documentary To Calm the Pig Inside is joining the upcoming Climate Crisis Film Festival happening on November 1 to 14.
The CCFF is happening in coincidence with the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. Everyone is welcome to register worldwide.
“I feel that our film related to super typhoon Haiyan, has somehow managed to give voice to those who lived through the trauma in Tacloban and the Visayas, in a way that hopefully draws more empathy to the global effects of the ever stronger storms, worldwide. As CCFF is taking place during perhaps the most important climate change conference, this should help shed more light on our situation in the Philippines,” said director Joanna Vasquez Arong.
The film is one of the four nominees alongside Haulover: Separated; Hawaiian Soul, and; Time and the Seashell. The award will be announced in a ceremony in Glasgow on November 12. CCFF is the UK’s first climate action film festival.
Climate Crisis Film Festival 2021 presented by Doconomy runs 1-14 November 2021: free, online, worldwide. The Award Ceremony, presented by Ocean Bottle, in Glasgow on 12 November at 18:00 GMT. Part of the official COP26 UN Climate Conference Green Zone programme.
Opening Address by Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, and Bill McKibben
The Climate Crisis Film Festival, presented by Doconomy, is programming 50+ films from 30+ countries and bringing together 50+ activists, changemakers and thought-leaders to talk about climate solutions, with an Opening Address by leading environmentalists Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder – the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace, and Bill McKibben, Founder – 350.org.
The first-ever climate film Award for BIPOC filmmakers
The programme includes the newly revealed Nominees for the inaugural Ocean Bottle Film Award, the first climate filmmaking prize open exclusively to BIPOC and non-Western filmmakers.
VR exhibition at COP26
Virtual Reality exhibition in the COP26 Green Zone, created in partnership with ActionAid International and veteran NASA astronaut Nicole Stott, ‘From the Frontlines to BEYOND’ transports audiences from Glasgow to places where they can be immersed in the reality of climate impacts.
Mexico-Glasgow programme
Three films will be screened in partnership with the acclaimed Los Cabos International Film Festival, as part of a British Council-supported joint Green Strand that is creating a bridge between Glasgow and Mexico during COP26.
Watch for free worldwide at climatecrisisff.co.uk
