Hollywood Climate Summit

Last week, Center for Scholars & Storytellers hosted their Teens and Screens summit at UCLA. There were some INCREDIBLE speakers (several from our HCS community!) like Alyson Stoner, Maddy Roth, Eduardo Cisneros, Joy Gorman Wettels, Daniel Schienart, Meredith Goldberg-Morse, Dustin Lance Black, Meg LeFauve, and many many more. We featured Dr. Yalda Tehranian-Uhls, the center's Founder and CEO, at our 2024 conference and she spoke to the importance of programming for children and adolescents: "I don’t think there’s enough attention to adolescent programming. Adolescence is a really important time. It’s now defined ages 10-25 and it’s a time of cognitive flexibility… their brains are really open… they’re figuring out who they are... This is the time where media can have the most positive impact.”

Leah Thomas drops dialogue and plot line pitches for your next story at our 2024 conference: Dialogue: "OMG I have to plug my nose every time I drove over this highway because there’s a stench in my neighborhood" Plot line: That turns into the realization that there’s a toxic landfill or waste site in the neighborhood. Other mentions: - There aren’t enough trees - There’s more asthma in a community #hollywoodclimatesummit #climatestorytelling #storytelling #climate #media #entertainment #environment #intersectionalenvironmentalism #tv #movies #film

Rosanna Xia at our 2024 conference speaks to The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh, and 'the failure of our own imagination'. "The crux of his argument is that... if you look at all literature (climate change) it gets siloed into the science fiction or dystopian genre. Because we are unable to think of something with wildfires and hurricanes and extreme events as real... climate change is a failure of our own imagination." #climatechange #climate #environment #storytelling #writing #hollywood #media #entertainment #climateaction

“We’re living in a world with a ton of climate storytelling mostly being done by oil and gas industries… a narrative that has been created by very very smart, very creative, very savvy people that has built our understanding of: what’s going on, who’s to blame, what we should do about it.” - Dorothy Fortenberry during the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Rewrite the Future program at our 2024 Conference Check out these partner organizations working to combat climate disinformation through investigative reporting, education, and advocacy: 🔵 Drilled Media 🔵 Creatives for Climate Collective 🔵 Climate Town + Rollie Williams 🔵 Clean Creatives + Fossil Free Media 🔵 Hip Hop Caucus 🔵 The Climate Reality Project 🔵 Beyond Petrochemicals 🔵 Earthjustice

“I invite all of you to see the climate crisis in that way — not as this thing that we’re going towards, this end… but already as a beginning for how we change the world. How we tell a better story.” 🌍 An invitation from climate justice activist Xiye Bastida 🌍 #indigenouspeoplesday #indigenous #indigenousrights #climate #environment #storytelling #entertainment #hollywoodclimatesummit

🎬 🌏 Our new sizzle reel! As beacons of hope and catalysts for change, TV and film productions can make critical sustainability topics both accessible and engaging to audiences worldwide: https://lnkd.in/ehi33Rm2 🙌 A24 ⚬ Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios ⚬ Amblin Partners ⚬ The Walt Disney Company ⚬ Fox Corporation ⚬ NBCUniversal ⚬ Netflix ⚬ Paramount Pictures ⚬ Sony Pictures Entertainment ⚬ Village Roadshow ⚬ Warner Bros. Discovery

Join our friends at Climate Tech Cocktails during LA Tech Week! 🏝️ Join us as the #hereweare tour comes to #latechweek2024 for an epic Climate Tech Cocktails party on 10/16 at the The Belasco from 8pm-midnight! 🙌🏼 It’s a true community effort with partners Hollywood Climate Summit, LA Climate Week, NetNada, Pique Action, Saniset Fleet, & The Carbonauts joining forces! ✅ climate warriors 🚫 green washing ✅ climate tech startups 🚫 panels ✅ djs ✅ bars everywhere & VIP lounge! 🎟️ RSVP HERE while you can: https://loom.ly/FeDK5EU #sustainability #greenproduction #ClimateTechCocktails #LATechWeek

We laughed, we cried, we realized how many dentists are being bought out by Big Toothpaste🦷🪥 Part 2 of our #climateweeknyc program featured a comedic, investigative journalism experience presented by Drilled Media, sponsored by Climate Power and The Carmack Collective. Shoutout to our hilarious panelists —> Josh Gondelman, Yamaneika Saunders, and Juan Manuel Benítez. An important call to action from Amy Westervelt + Drilled: Read or listen to climate reporting from your local news outlets. When you like a piece, let them know by giving them a call. ☎️ Why a call?☎️ Most newsrooms consider 1 person calling as equivalent to the viewpoints of 100K people.

The Creative Climate Careers Summit at New York Climate Week was EPIC! 🍎 Over 80 creatives joined us for a rousing journey across ‘careers for climate’ ‘creativity as a force for solutions’ ‘an industry in transition’ and ‘anti-greenwash education.’ 👉 We heard from voices such as Kristy Drutman, Founder Green Jobs Board, Daniel Hill, Creator of OpenDoorClimate & Director at Environmental Defense Fund, Gareth Gransaull, Co-Executive Director at re•generation and Aiyana Bodi, Manager at Project Drawdown on navigating career transitions - ‘the good, the bad’ and the ugly’. 👉 We learned from leaders such as Farhana Yamin, Director of the Climate Justice & Just Transition Collaborative, Heather Fipps, Co-Founder of The Hollywood Climate Summit, Isaias Hernandez, Founder of 'Queer Brown Vegan' and Jessie Bluedorn, Founder & Director of The Carmack Collective on the barriers, opportunities and drivers needed to accelerate creativity for climate action. 👉 We honed our anti-greenwash skills with CEO and Founder of Creatives or Climate, Lucy von Sturmer before diving into ‘an industry in transition’ with Ursula Pereira, Project Development Manager at Creatives for Climate and Lameya Chaudhury, the Head of Social Impact and Client Partner at Lucky Generals and the work we’re doing with the Ethical Agency Alliance. The good news is - the journey doesn’t end here, and we are excited to share we will be releasing the full recap of the event on our learning hub, coming soon! A HUGE thank you to everyone involved in putting this event together 🤝 Change begins with us! Check out our highlights and learnings: https://lnkd.in/e2g_3jTT #Creative #Climate #Communications #CreativesForClimate #NewYork

Love The Hollywood Reporter featuring our program with Drilled Media at our NYC summit last week. #informationpollution #madmenofbigoil #hollywoodclimatesummit