The UM Student Chapter has a community-wide film showing of 2040 with a panel discussion April 19, w/ free childcare! More information here
In celebration of Earth Day, please join the student chapter of Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate and Families First Learning Lab in a free screening and panel discussion of the documentary film 2040.This film is a hopeful look at what the world could look like a few decades from now if existing climate innovations and best practices were implemented across the globe. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with four Montana-based climate leaders as they share ideas for creating a climate, resilient future in our state.
Description of 2040 from the filmmakers:
Drawing on the best minds from around the world to focus on climate, economics, technology, civil
society, agriculture and sustainability, 2040 maps out a pathway for change that can lead us to a
more ecologically sustainable and equitable future.
Motivated by his 4-year-old daughter and concern for the planet she will inherit, Damon Gameau
embarks on a global journey to meet the innovators and change makers pioneering the best
solutions already available to us today to improve the health of our planet and societies. Inspired by
these discoveries and guided by the many children he consults with along the way, Damon
interweaves dramatic sequences and high-end visual effects to conjure a positive portrait of what
‘could be’ instead of the current dystopian future we are so often presented.
Aimed at a broad audience that includes children and their parents, serious information is delivered
with irreverence and humour. Experts are shrunk into scenes to emphasise a point, animation makes
the invisible visible and visual effects show how scaling these solutions by 2040 will positively impact
our lives and our planet. This rich visual approach combined with the structure of an intimate letter
to a daughter from her father allows for lightness and cheekiness, ensuring the film is both
entertaining and educational, with the end goal being to inspire action and change
Many academics believe that people become inactive or paralysed on this topic because it all just
feels too overwhelming and alarming. 2040 is an aspirational film full of hope about the possibility to
make changes that will shift the course for humanity and the planet.
This is the narrative the next generation needs to see, to aspire to, and to believe is possible.
-Damon Gameau
Description of 2040 from the filmmakers:
Drawing on the best minds from around the world to focus on climate, economics, technology, civil
society, agriculture and sustainability, 2040 maps out a pathway for change that can lead us to a
more ecologically sustainable and equitable future.
Motivated by his 4-year-old daughter and concern for the planet she will inherit, Damon Gameau
embarks on a global journey to meet the innovators and change makers pioneering the best
solutions already available to us today to improve the health of our planet and societies. Inspired by
these discoveries and guided by the many children he consults with along the way, Damon
interweaves dramatic sequences and high-end visual effects to conjure a positive portrait of what
‘could be’ instead of the current dystopian future we are so often presented.
Aimed at a broad audience that includes children and their parents, serious information is delivered
with irreverence and humour. Experts are shrunk into scenes to emphasise a point, animation makes
the invisible visible and visual effects show how scaling these solutions by 2040 will positively impact
our lives and our planet. This rich visual approach combined with the structure of an intimate letter
to a daughter from her father allows for lightness and cheekiness, ensuring the film is both
entertaining and educational, with the end goal being to inspire action and change
Many academics believe that people become inactive or paralysed on this topic because it all just
feels too overwhelming and alarming. 2040 is an aspirational film full of hope about the possibility to
make changes that will shift the course for humanity and the planet.
This is the narrative the next generation needs to see, to aspire to, and to believe is possible.
-Damon Gameau