Name: 2040 Film Screening
Start: 2024-11-19T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-19T20:30:00+00:00
Location: CoLab Dudley

What the future could look like by the year 2040 if we embraced the best solutions already available us to improve our planet.
About this Event

Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them rapidly into the mainstream. Structured as a visual letter to his 4-year-old daughter, Damon blends traditional documentary with dramatised sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board of how these solutions could regenerate the world for future generations.

This film opens a Winter Film Programme for Dudley People’s School for Climate Justice. The film programme has been co-curated by a small group of local people involve in climate action work. This film screening is also part of a programme of Urban Room Unbound activities which CoLab Dudley is curating.

WHAT TO EXPECT

We’re not a cinema! We’ll be watching the film on a large digital screen. We’ll get settled in with popcorn and wintery drinks (small donations welcome). Then we’ll watch the film, which is one and half hours long. After a short break we’ll have a discussion about the film, for around half an hour.

Lorna Prescott from the CoLab Dudley team will be hosting this screening. She said: “I chose this film for our Winter Film Programme because it shares so many examples of things that communities are already doing in different parts of the world. It leaves me asking: what if lots of things like these were all in one place, in Dudley?”

ACCESSIBILITY LIMITATIONS

Dudley Creates activities are hosted in numerous indoor and outdoor spaces across Dudley Borough. This activity is taking place in the CoLab Dudley space on Dudley High Street, which is a rented unit in the Trident Shopping Centre. While the main space is at street level and fully accessible, the toilet is on the first floor up steep stairs. Sadly, there has been no way to adapt the space for accessible toilets. Which means this particular activity isn’t fully accessible for people with mobility impairments. Please contact Lorna Prescott ([email protected]) if you would like us to repeat this activity in a fully accessible space on another date. We’d be very happy to.