DVD
REVIEW: CLIMATE OF CHANGE
02/23/11
Climate of Change
is one of a selection of Tribeca Film titles being distributed
by New Video in 2010 and 2011. Tribeca Film is a distribution
label acquiring and releasing films year-round and is supported
by Founding Partner American Express. The films range from
award-winning dramas and revealing documentaries to uproarious
comedies and stunning animated features, many of which premiered
at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival prior to theatrical runs in
New York and Los Angeles. The films from the Tribeca Film slate
were also available on video on demand in 40 million U.S. homes
simultaneously with their Festival screenings through
relationships with leading telecom, cable and satellite
providers.
New Video plans to release one
to two titles per month leading up to the 2011 Tribeca Film
Festival.
SYNOPSIS: From the producers of An Inconvenient Truth, CLIMATE OF CHANGE is a rich and inspiring documentary that takes us around the world to find the ordinary people taking action in the fight to save our environment. With beautiful narration written by British poet Simon Armitage and mellifluously voiced by Tilda Swinton (Chronicles of Narnia, Adaptation), the film seamlessly explores how teenagers in India, villagers in Papua New Guinea and Africa, self-described “hillbillies” in Appalachia and a PR expert in London are harnessing their global thinking to act locally within their respective communities. .
In what Variety calls “half eco-docu, half art…social-action cinema with a twist,” director Brian Hill and his cinematographers create a real sense of ambience in each of the countries and communities they visit. Conversations with West Virginians are punctuated by footage of mountaintops surrounding their homes being dynamited; Papua New Guineans talk among the giant trees being decimated by commercial logging and a visit to the Global Seed Vault built in the Norwegian permafrost in Svalbard, Norway is nothing short of ethereal.
VIDEO:
Full Screen
1.33:1
AUDIO:
Dolby Digital
2.0 English
SPECIAL
FEATURES:
My Tribeca Story, Presented by American Express (Interview with Brian Hill)
An Interview with Brian Hill, Presented by American Express
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