Head of Cultural Development @Nesta / Clore Fellow 22-23 / Cultural & impact strategy & climate storytelling @thedocsociety / Part-time yogi / tweets my own

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Sending lots of love to the #KyotoPlay company and crew for their Press Night this evening ❤
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Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me… 🧵 1/n #ClimateCrisis
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🚨BREAKING: This Government's cruel Refugee Ban Bill has just passed. But if they think they’ve won, they can think again
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📢We are hiring a JOINT CEO/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR! 📅4 day work week (£55K per annum) 🧳7 weeks holiday 🏦8% pension 📚£500 CPD budget 💻Work from home stipend for internet use 💪Flexible working patterns (as pre-agreed) Deadline: June 30 Full deets 👉 lnkd.in/e6Sx8QNQ
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Head to The Climate Content Summit at @BarbicanCentre at the Barbican for a packed programme of talks and workshops on how the TV industry can harness the awesome power of TV to help save the planet. Grab tickets here: thetvfestival.com/climate/
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Second Edition now out "If humanity is to survive & thrive it must become re-enchanted with the biosphere it depends on. Playing for Time is a dance of the imagination...inviting us to look at & feel differently about the world" @AndrewSimms_uk triarchypress.net/playing.ht…
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Increasingly the issue is not a mere lack of imagination but more fundamentally a lack of comprehension of the scale of the transition we are facing, and thereby a sufficient imaginary to face the reality coming at us.
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Nina Menkes’ BRAINWASHED is mesmerising visual journey through cinema's sexist bloodstream will forever change the way you see and make films. #ReclaimTheFrame with us for a series of special events inc. panel discussions & Q&As w/@menkesfilm. Follow🧵for info...
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"Wait" – a beautiful and life-giving poem by Galway Kinnell, born on this day in 1927, composed to keep a young friend from taking his own life themarginalian.org/2016/05/1…
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Be sure to catch the end of this clever @NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021 climate.nasa.gov/climate_res…
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The time for transformation is now. Introducing @Culture_COP, a first of its kind gathering of artists, culture makers and indigenous leaders at COP27, in Egypt's Sinai Desert, 12-13th November.
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Thrilled to announce... the latest @TheDocSociety Climate Story Fund grantees! These #NewClimateNarratives range from musical dramas to feature docs to podcasts🌏 Check out how these stories are broadening the climate conversation & driving audiences towards collective action👇
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UK Filmmakers...got a creative short doc brewing? APPLY NOW for our @BFI Made of Truth Short Film Fund which can contribute up to £15k of #NationalLottery funds towards original short form documentaries. Apply before by 7 June, 2022 docsociety.org/bfi-doc/ @BFINetwork #shortdocs
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Do you have a story that drives environmental solutions for our world? Join over 36 films supported by over $ 1M in funding by applying for The Redford Center Grants Program. Learn more & apply: redfordcenter.org/grants. #Film #Filmmaking #Documentary #Grants #GrantOpportunity
We are thrilled to share that @FashReimagined will be premiering at the @Tribeca Film Festival on June 11th. Thanks to @Variety for highlighting our Spotlight selection.
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“From a certain point of view, granting nature a say isn’t radical or new at all. For most of history, people saw themselves as dependent on their surroundings...” @ElizKolbert on the #rightsofnature movement and its latest legal test. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/… via @NewYorker
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Rebellion opens in UK cinemas this weekend! We can't wait ✨🥳 Find tickets at link in bio ⬆️
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We can't hype up this film enough - a masterpiece. Congrats to 'The Territory' team on all the spectacular reviews coming out of #Sundance! 'The Territory' is supported through our #ClimateStoryFund 🌎
Another incredible review ⁦ “The Territory is more than just an issues doc. It is moving precisely because it goes right to the heart of what filmmaking can be – a tool to capture, control and explicate a unique world view.” ⁦⁦@Screendaily⁩ screendaily.com/reviews/the-…
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