Shot on location around the world, from the rainforests of Papua New Guinea to the streets of New York, and with over 400 hours filmed, Two Degrees is now being edited and will soon be distributed to a global audience. Your support will bring to the screen the story of the issue that is shaping our age.

We seek immediate private investment from individuals or organisations who understand the importance of mobilising public action, promoting forest conservation and exploring the role carbon trading can play. We require support for post-production and promotional costs.   Please contact us for more information.

1. For decades, documentaries have played an important role in communicating ideas to the public. Many films have been very influential and provoked strong reactions and demands for solutions. Documentaries are a good example how a relatively small amount of money can make a large impact, help advance a cause and reach a broader audience.

2. Our target audience is the affluent citizen of the developed world who is trying to comprehend the current climate crisis trajectory, and better understand what they can do. We have a unique and inspiring story which will broaden their understanding of the link between past exploitation of the developing world, and the current development, economic and environmental challenges we face.

3. Why broaden their world-view? To elicit a response. Our audience has the power to create the change we need but they need to clearly understand the problem and their part in the solution. Our engaging interviewees will both verbalise and demonstrate these, inspiring them to take action.

4. Help counter the “surge of militant anti-climate change activism that believes climate science is a left-wing plot aimed at promoting elites, wrecking the economy and screwing the little man.” Clive Hamilton.1

5. Our film will support action. The audience will be directed to connect to existing, successful carbon reduction and community-building campaigns e.g 10:10 and Transition Towns. We will encourage the global mind shift needed for a truly sustainable future. Our website will include advocacy videos recommending steps people can take to reduce their own carbon emissions and push their government to faster action on climate change.

6. It is vital we bring deforestation under control. An EU-commissioned study concludes the global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis. The study puts the annual cost of forest loss at $2-5trn. The figure comes from adding the value of various services forests perform, such as providing clean water, absorbing Co2, nitrogen fixation, generating rainfall, stopping soil erosion and cleaning the air. It then calculates the cost of either replacing these environmental services, or living without them. 2

7. We will also ensure our film reaches audiences in developing countries. It will be translated into French, Spanish and Pidgin initially. We will encourage participation in local community dialogue by partnering with innovative action groups and government-led programs, assisting education within differing cultural contexts.

8. We have had initial discussions with an international PR firm regarding our promotion and distribution strategy and they have shown strong interest in being involved. The company features an experienced team of marketing and communications professionals that offer branded content development, media relations, celebrity services and event design and management.

9. Fifty per cent of any profits made by the Producer will be directed into forest-dependent communities in developing countries via the Rainforest Foundation Norway.

10. Support a dedicated, award-winning film maker who has passionately risked all to tell a cutting edge story, with determination to reach a global audience.

“Today’s enormous development challenges are complicated by the reality of climate change – the two are inextricably linked and together demand immediate attention. Climate change threatens all countries, but particularly developing ones….

Success hinges on changing behavior and shifting public opinion. Individuals, as citizens and consumers, will determine the planet’s future. Although an increasing number of people know about climate change and believe action is needed, too few make it a priority, and too many fail to act when they have the opportunity. So the greatest challenge lies with changing behaviors and institutions, particularly in high-income countries. Public policy changes—local, regional, national, and international—are necessary to make private and civic action easier and more attractive.” World Development Report 2010

1 http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2826189.htm?site=greatsouthern
2 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7662565.stm