“If we told stories about different kinds of people, there would be opportunities to seamlessly weave climate in.” It’s affecting farmers in Bangladesh, farmers in Peru, farmers in Kentucky,” Fortenberry said. “Climate change is something that right now is affecting people who aren’t necessarily the people that Hollywood tends to write stories about.
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“If you’re already attached to a character in a story and it authentically comes up in conversation for the character, it validates for the audience that it’s OK to talk about in your day-to-day lives,” Joyner said.ĭorothy Fortenberry, a TV writer (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) and playwright, said the industry needs to broaden its view of who it writes about, not just what. Casual mentions of climate change in scenes also can be effective. “We describe it as a spectrum, everything from showing the impact with solutions in the background,” such as including solar panels in an exterior shot of a building, she said. DiCaprio also starred in “Don’t Look Up,” the 2021 Oscar-nominated film in which a comet hurtling toward an indifferent Earth is a metaphor for the peril of climate-change apathy.īut the playbook is asking writers and industry executives to consider a variety of less-dire approaches, Joyner said, with examples and resources included. Waves of celebrities have been sounding the climate alarm, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jane Fonda, Don Cheadle and Shailene Woodley. “The main purpose of the playbook is to expand that menu of possibilities….to a larger array of how it would be showing up in our real life.”Īmong those who provided funding for the playbook project are Bloomberg Philanthropies, Sierra Club and the Walton Family Foundation. “A big hurdle that we encountered was that writers were associating climate stories with apocalypse stories,” she said in an interview. “Good Energy: A Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change” was created with feedback from more than 100 film and TV writers, said Anna Jane Joyner, editor-in-chief of the playbook and founder of Good Energy, a nonprofit consultancy. A blueprint for ways to turn that around was released Tuesday. Only a sliver of screen fiction, 2.8%, refers to climate change-related words, according to a new study of 37,453 film and TV scripts from 2016-20.
but it’s apparently missing out on an approach close to home. LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hollywood’s response to climate change includes donations, protests and other activism.