Two Degrees dives deep into the back corridors of the Copenhagen Climate summit, hot on the heels of Papua New Guinea negotiator Kevin Conrad and his Coalition for Rainforest Nations as they fight tooth and nail for a voice amidst the chaos. Caught between grandiose sound bites, debilitating bureaucracy and machiavellian intrigue, the greatest chance to reset the benchmark on climate change sits on a knife edge.

This film pulls apart the entangling threads of politics, science, civil society and economics, tracking them through the frantic build-up to Copenhagen via Poznan, Panama, PNG, Oslo, Bonn, Barcelona, the Amazon wilds of Ecuador, the deepest reaches of the Congo basin, the corporate leather of New York City and the academic watchtowers of Oxford and Cambridge. It seeks perspective and clarity in a process that uses complexity as a weapon.

With political viability, economic feasibility, and scientific inevitability all on a collision course, and the eyes of the world on a room full of people, true colours will show.

This film holds those colours to the light.

Producer/Director: Jeff Canin
Director/Camera/Edit: Conan Fitzpatrick
Production Manager: Ange Palmer
Sound Recordist: Rob Stankovich
Composer: Loic Valmy
Additional Camera: Dan Schist

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