What would the future look like if we simply embraced the solutions that already exist today?
Director Damon Gameau explores creative possibilities and talks with the visionaries working to make these possibilities into realities. Immediately after the screening, login to the Zoom meeting for a discussion to share your thoughts on the film and hopes for the future. Check your email following the film screening for the Zoom discussion link.
Registration will take you to an Eventbrite page created for the film screening. One hour before the start of the film, you will receive a link and password to join the film screening. Space is limited to 100 viewers.
Please email Megan at mzimmerman@alexlibraryva.org for more information.
2040 Trailer
2040
Together Films (2018)
92 minutes | PG
About 2040
Drawing on the best minds from around the world to focus on climate, economics, technology, civil society, agriculture and sustainability, 2040 maps out a pathway for change that can lead us to a more ecologically sustainable and equitable future.
Motivated by his 4-year-old daughter and concern for the planet she will inherit, Damon Gameau embarks on a global journey to meet the innovators and change makers pioneering the best solutions already available to us today to improve the health of our planet and societies. Inspired by these discoveries and guided by the many children he consults with along the way, Damon interweaves dramatic sequences and high-end visual effects to conjure a positive portrait of what 'could be' instead of the current dystopian future we are so often presented.
Aimed at a broad audience that includes children and their parents, serious information is delivered with irreverence and humor. Experts are shrunk into scenes to emphasize a point, animation makes the invisible visible and visual effects show how scaling these solutions by 2040 will positively impact our lives and our planet. This rich visual approach combined with the structure of an intimate letter to a daughter from her father allows for lightness and cheekiness, ensuring the film is both entertaining and educational, with the end goal being to inspire action and change.
Many academics believe that people become inactive or paralyzed on this topic because it all just feels too overwhelming and alarming. 2040 is an aspirational film full of hope about the possibility to make changes that will shift the course for humanity and the planet.
This is the narrative the next generation needs to see, to aspire to, and to believe is possible.
