Cinematic battle against climate change
‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’, follow up sequel to 2006 documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, former United States Vice President Al Gore’s mission to battle climate change will be released on August 25at Liberty By Scope Cinemas.
A decade after ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ brought climate change into the heart of popular culture, comes the riveting and rousing follow-up that shows just how close we are to a real energy revolution. Vice President Al Gore continues his tireless fight travelling around the world training an army of climate champions and influencing international climate policy. Cameras follow him behind the scenes – in moments both private and public, funny and poignant — as he pursues the inspirational idea that while the stakes have never been higher, the perils of climate change can be overcome with human ingenuity and passion.
Paramount Pictures and Participant Media Present an Actual Films Production of ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power’ directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk. The producers are Jeff Skoll, Richard Berge and Diane Weyermann and the executive producers are Davis Guggenheim, Lawrence Bender, Laurie David, Scott Z. Burns and Lesley Chilcott. Cinematography is by Jon Shenk, the editors are Don Bernier and Colin Nusbaum and the music is composed by Jeff Beal.
In 2006, when Vice President Al Gore became the focal point of the Oscar-winning ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, he was the quintessential man at a crossroads –etching a new path in the wake of the gruelling and controversial presidential election of 2000, which ended in an unprecedented Supreme Court decision. Needing to move forward meaningfully, Gore exited the political stage and followed his gut and his heart into uncharted territory. He threw everything he had – all his energy, intellect, drive and voice — into one almost overwhelmingly huge issue that had long lit a fire within him: confronting the increasingly alarming prospect of a global climate crisis that could literally threaten the end of human civilization.
At that time, the climate crisis was itself at a crossroads. Scientific consensus was coalescing around what the full human, economic and planetary costs of climate change might be if the world made zero effort to cut manmade greenhouse gas emissions. The far-reaching scope of the threat was just breaking through to the public — and the fossil fuel industry was putting up serious resistance.
But that was then. And in the 10 years since, so very much has changed.
The inspirational story of just how amazingly far the battle to halt climate change has come — and why Gore now says the momentum is unstoppable — forms the core of ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power’. The film sets off in a fresh direction to become an inside view of positive change-in-the-making, as it reveals how Gore has faced off against fierce forces and has weathered disappointments — only to rebound and magnetize a groundswell of people ready to take on the most momentous human quest of our time.
The sweeping transformations since 2006 have taken place on personal and global levels. Gore has become a uniquely post-political figure, pursuing ideas larger than any party or office; ‘An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power’ and other media have woven climate change into the culture’s very fabric; and when it comes to halting spiking mercury, big concepts are in the offing.
A low-carbon economy is emerging at an unprecedented pace, propelled by innovative technologies and growing economic upsides. In fact, 2016 marked an all-time high in investments in renewable energy across the globe.
Action is now taking place where despair threatened to reign. The groundbreaking Paris Agreement of 2015 has unified the world to tackle greenhouse gas mitigation. Developing countries are leap-frogging inefficient old grids and coal fuels for sustainable alternatives. Most tellingly, Gore is no longer the voice in the wilderness calling to be heard, but the loudest and clearest in a symphony of rising voices, from all nations, walks of life and political stripes, determined to make profound alterations in record time.
