Film Competition

Stories of Climate Change

As part of 2040 Now, NYU, in partnership with the Green Film School Alliance (GFSA), and with additional support from Paramount Pictures and New York WILD Film Festival, hosted an inaugural film competition to encourage filmmakers to use film and ingenuity to create stories that combat climate despair by inspiring us to take action.

1st Place Winner

Rich For Free

4th Place Winner

Repugnance

2nd Place Winner

Rice to Meet You

5th Place Winner

Rise

3rd Place Winner

Time Out

All Filmmakers & Their Films

The Persistence of Nature - Revath Angajan
Climate Emergency Trailer - Robert Menefee
Extinction - Queralt Antú Serrano Porredon
Fishing in the Pool - Devin Deng
Natural Capital - Sarah Aslam
never - Carsten Nahum & Lauren Koo
re.azioni - Dominic Sambucco
Repugnace - Benjamin Romero
Rice To Meet You - Papang Ruckpanich
Rich for Free - Lucy Walkowiak & Bennita Baily
Rise - Matthew Tan
The Bystander Effect - Global Warming Short - Ryan Russo
The Edge of the Sea - Rizkia Nurfaiza Kamal
The Wasters - Alexandra Ollé, Christian Leššo, Hannah Kapustina, Lajka Belošovičová, Martin Klačanský, Teodor Šotník, Vivien Viktória Jarábeková
TIME OUT - Michael, Maxwell, & Emmett Dorfman
YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW - Chia-Hung Kao

The Competition

NYU and the Green Film School Alliance asked filmmakers to develop a short film no longer than 5-minutes - describing the impacts of climate change on our lives - inspired by one of the following prompts:

THE FUNNY THING ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE – How you can use humor, satire, irony, and positivity to combat climate despair
RISING WATERS – How climate change and environmental injustices have generated challenges we face in our daily lives and communities
LOVE IN THE ANTHROPOCENE – How climate change impacts our relationships with each other and nature
WILD SPIRIT – Hometown heroes on the frontlines of climate change
WE MADE IT – Imagine what living in a climate neutral world looks like

All films strived to adhere to the Green Production Guide, PEACHy checklist, to ensure sustainable film production practices. PEACHy, modeled after the Green Production Guide’s industry-standard Production Environmental Actions Checklist (PEACH), aims to help filmmakers reduce the environmental impact of content production.