Hope, the Pope, Greta and a better world
Andrew Andrea
Senior Advisor @ ISO | Sustainability Strategic Partnerships, Director @ Alliance4Impact, Founder, Director @ Impact17
Pope Francis and Greta Thunberg joined with some amazing people to fill the gaps left by politicians in the international arena even on the 75th anniversary of the United Nations. They are lobbying for the future we all want, but "you can play your part right now!"
While the US, China, France and Germany absent themselves from the World Health Organization's project to provide equal access to Covid-19 vaccines COVAX the United Nations appears to have been pushed further into the back seat of global leadership.
Others are pouring in to fill the gap in a positive sign of hope. "How do we lift each other up, and make it fair?"
The Pope, Greta and even the United Nations Secretary-General himself António Guterres, are trying new ways to partner for global good. They have been joined by new-age influencers such as the Hindu “hugging saint” Amma, Nobel Laureate Dr. Mario Molina, climate champion Christina Figueres, the footballers Paulo Dybala and Mathieu Flamini, F1 champion Nico Rosberg, All Blacks’ legend Dan Carter, model Arizona Muse, filmmaker Valarie Kaur, the actress Nina Sosanya, Imam Mohammed Mahmoud, Dhammananda Bhikkhuni, the activist Hindou Ibrahim, and the spiritual leaders Benki Piyãko and Radhanath Swami to produce the film #ImagineFor1Minute
You can DOWNLOAD your own copy of the film here, in lots of formats: for Instagram, Twitter, Vertical, Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and as an audio file. Warning - Contains Flashing Images:
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#ImagineFor1Minute is mesmerising and has a simple message - it’s time to talk about the future we want.
The film is independent and not linked to a campaign - it’s a fantastic tool that can be used to engage people with visualising a better future, whatever that means for them, and then to talk about it - to make us all feel part of something bigger and better.
Supporters
This film has been made possible by support from the Planetary EmergencyPartnership of which I am so proud to be a part of, WWF, Avaaz, Conservation International, FOLU, Global Commons Alliance, The Club of Rome, Nature4Climate, The Nature Conservancy, Climate & Sustainability, and Gower St. Additional individual donations from Noëlle Poncelet and Sandrine Dixson-Declève have helped to make this possible.
Gripping Films
Gripping Films specialises in making films to create change – they’ve won over 30 international awards for their films with David Attenborough and others and have been nominated for an Emmy with their films for the BBC, PBS and National Geographic screened to the UN and EU Parliaments. Last year their viral short film "Nature Now" featuring Greta Thunberg was seen 70 million times, won two Webbys—and most importantly was critical in helping push high-level global action in protecting nature to tackle climate change.
For more info contact the film’s directors:
Tom Mustill tom@grippingfilms.com
Alex Kiehl alexkiehl@gmail.com