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Tomorrow (2015 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Tomorrow'Jordan Mintzer, [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/tomorrow-demain-film-review-848309 "'Tomorrow' ('Demain'): Film Review"], 'The Hollywood Reporter', 15 December 2015 (page visited on 31 August 2016). is a 2015 French documentary film directed by Cyril Dion and Mlanie Laurent. Faced with a future that scientists say is a great cause for concern,Anthony Barnosky, Elizabeth Hadly 'et al.', [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v486/n7401/full/nature11018.html "Approaching a state shift in Earths biosphere"], 'Nature', number 486, 7 Juin 2012, pages 52-58 (page visited on 31 August 2016). In addition to this article (mentioned in the film), Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly also wrote the book 'End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth?', 2015 . the film has the distinction of not giving in to catastrophism. Optimistically, it identifies initiatives that been proven themselves in ten countries as examples of solutions to environmental and social challenges of the twenty-first century in agriculture, energy, economy, education and governance.
'Tomorrow' exceeded a million entries in France. It won the 2016 Csar Award for Best Documentary Film and was distributed in 27 countries.[https://www.demain-lefilm.com/en Official website of 'Tomorrow'] (page visited on 8 September 2016).
Description
The film is organised in five chapters:
* Agriculture
* Energy
* Economy
* Democracy
* Education
Production
Funding
'Tomorrow's production team fell short in funding. On 27 May 2014, the team launched crowdfunding activities on the internet platform KissKissBankBank with the objective of gathering 200,000 Euro to finance the film and fund the rental of shooting equipment.Cyril Dion, 'Demain, un nouveau monde en marche', ditions Actes Sud, collection Domaine du possible , 2015, page 18 Two months later on 26 July the team had raised 444,390 Euro, more than a quarter of the budget of the film, with the help of 10,266 contributors.Contributors
Initiatives taking place in France (including Runion), Finland, Denmark, Belgium, India, the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, Sweden and Iceland are shown. People appearng in the film include:
Analysis
Unlike other documentary films that focus on the cause of global environmental imbalances and their negative consequences (such as 'Le syndrome du Titanic', 'The Eleventh Hour', 'An Inconvenient Truth', 'That Should Not Be: Our Children Will Accuse Us' and 'Home'See notably: Thierry Paquot, article "Cinma", in Dominique Bourg and Alain Papaux, 'Dictionnaire de la pense cologique' [Dictionary of Ecological Thinking], Presses universitaires de France, 2015 .), ' Tomorrow ' offers a constructive approach (similar to 'Solutions locales pour un dsordre global') putting forward solutions to environmental problems facing mankind. Antoine Duplan, [https://www.letemps.ch/culture/2015/12/18/demain-permet-croire-demain " Demain permet de croire demain"], 'Le temps', 18 December 2015 (page visited on 19 June 2016).
Accolades
Impact
The film was shown at COP 21, European Parliament, UN and at every school in Brussels by the Brussels Minister of the Environment. More than 700 projects related to the initiatives described in the film were launched in late 2016. The film has attracted a passion for alternative forms of consumption and participation in the society it presents. The co-director Cyril Dion has since been using the film's success to support the 'mouvement Colibris' (Hummingbird movement), a group looking forward to change modern lifestyle, e.g. during the French presidential campaign of 2017.
See also
* List of environmental films
References
Further reading
* Cyril Dion, 'Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist', Chelsea Green publishing and Actes Sud publishing, 2017 .
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