We're still collecting donations
On the 28th April 2023 we'd raised £16,105 with 157 supporters in 28 days. But as every pound matters, we're continuing to collect donations from supporters.
+ est. £1037.00
We need to fund our film about the climate impacts of our broken food system... and the amazing people in Cornwall working to tackle it!
Project by CORNWALL CLIMATE CARE
On the 28th April 2023 we'd raised £16,105 with 157 supporters in 28 days. But as every pound matters, we're continuing to collect donations from supporters.
If we hit our stretch target this will enable us not just to complete filming, editing and promoting this film.
The extra money will provide a huge support for our busy schedule of community and school screenings and discussion events over the coming year.
This year we have been invited to participate in events and take Cornwall's Climate Stories way beyond Cornwall - in Devon, London, Oxford and Wales.
Hitting the higher target would enable us to raise the profile of our films further still, bringing their important messages to people and communities much further afield.
This is needed because we're in a climate emergency - we need all hands on deck!
We are working hard to complete Hungry for Change, the sixth episode in the Cornwall's Climate Stories series - which we are incredibly proud to say has been praised by none other than Sir David Attenborough.
After watching our films, Sir David wrote to tell us: "The need you have identified is indeed a real one, and your films meet it very well. Many congratulations".
We aim to launch Hungry for Change by the summer, bringing it to outreach events in communities and schools across Cornwall and beyond - but we need your help to make that happen!
The 30-minute film will be presented by St Ives-born forager Josh Quick (who you may have recently seen in Rick Stein's latest Cornwall series), and like all our documentaries it will feature practical, positive and inspiring stories of real people working to research, tackle and adapt to the challenges coming our way as the climate changes.
What we eat and the way we produce it is responsible for a huge part of our carbon emissions - particularly since, right now, we import around 50% of all our food .... and waste one-third of it.
Last summer’s heatwave, which frazzled crops and left dairy cows suffering from heat stress, showed how intensively producing food in the same old way will become increasingly difficult as the climate changes.
Meanwhile, the recent rationing of tomatoes and salad veg by UK supermarkets, as a result of bad weather in Spain and North Africa, has really shone a spotlight on just how vulnerable we are here in Cornwall, at the end of long global supply chains.
Like all of the Cornwall’s Climate Stories films, Hungry for Change will feature a whole host of fascinating and inspirational stories – from gleaners picking the ‘waste’ crops in our fields to help feed thousands of hungry people across Cornwall to a microbiologist keen to get us all eating low-carbon insects.
Hungry for Change will be a partner film to our last release, Food for Thought, which looks at the incredibly contentious issue of climate change and the livestock industry.
Food for Thought has received an average score of 9.4 out of 10 from audiences, who have particularly praised its balanced approach. The words most commonly used by viewers to describe how they felt after seeing the film were 'positive', 'inspired' and 'keen to learn more'.
Our films are not only freely available online – their main purpose is to be used at public screenings, Q&As, festivals and industry events in Cornwall and beyond (after all - they're relevant well beyond the Cornish border!), where we hope they can act as a springboard for meaningful and non-judgmental conversations, engagement and action.
We also work with Plymouth University to deliver school workshops full of creative activities around the themes of our films.
We have already shot most of the content for this film. However, we now need to transcribe the interviews, script the film and edit it, which is a hugely labour-intensive process.
We will also need to pay for extra illustration footage, music rights, as well as for colour grading and sound engineering.
And then we need to cover time and transport for organising and running screenings and events to take this film out into the world and get those all-important climate conversations started.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.
If you are able to make a contribution towards our project we have truly AMAZING rewards and experiences lined up for you - most of which have been kindly donated by some of the brilliant people featured in our previous films.
Check them out and learn more from these people who are on the front line working to help Cornwall become more resilient in the face of our future climate challenges.
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