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If "An Inconvenient Sequel" is anywhere near as successful, hopefully we won’t need a trilogy in another 10 years. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, online movie service Vudu is making the Oscar-winning documentary available to own for. "An Inconvenient Truth" won two Academy Awards and helped earn Al Gore a Nobel Prize.
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"Amid escalating threats to our environment, independent perspectives are adding the depth and dimension needed for us to find common ground and real solutions.” “I believe that storytelling is the greatest platform for getting people to care and take action on some of the most pressing issues of our time," said longtime environmental activist and the film festival’s founder Robert Redford. READ MORE: 2016 Was the Hottest Year on RecordĪccording to Sundance’s website, the film will be part of a new section called, “New Climate, a program dedicated to conversations and films about environmental change and conservation.” In what is arguably part of the legacy of "An Inconvenient Truth," 13 other environmentally conscious documentaries will be screened. The film also premieres days after scientists declared 2016 the hottest year in recorded history. To make matters worse for environmentalists, former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson is set to become secretary of state and Scott Pruitt, another climate change skeptic, is waiting to be confirmed as head of the Environmental Protection Agency – an organization he has sued 14 times as attorney general of Oklahoma. In a battle of hearts and minds, the premiere comes one day before Donald Trump, a climate change denier, is sworn into office. Read More: This Alaska Town Is Falling Into the Ocean Thanks to Climate Change Like its predecessor, the film follows former Vice President Al Gore on his quest to highlight how dire climate change has become while simultaneously showing how close humanity is to solving the crisis. Davis Guggenheim, who directed "An Inconvenient Truth," served as executive producer. This is what we see in Truth to Power - less PowerPoint, more people. Since An Inconvenient Truth’s release, Gore has been flying around the world, trying to save it one air-mile at a time. The film is directed by Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk. An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is the equally thought provoking follow up from the documentary that won Gore the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. For her work, Alexandria has received the Earth Day Network Youth Leadership Award, The Rachel Carson Environmental Justice Award, the Common Good American Spirit Changemaker award and was included on Politico’s top 100 people influential in climate change policy list.Ten years after "An Inconvenient Truth" debuted and launched climate change into public consciousness and popular culture, and a day before President-Elect Donald Trump – who has called climate change a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese – is sworn into office, "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth and Power" is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Thursday. Alexandria serves on the advisory board for the national climate policy platform Evergreen Action, is a youth spokesperson and advisor for the American Lung Association, and she is the youngest Junior Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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She is a contributing author to All We Can Save, an anthology of women climate leaders, and a child petitioner for the ground-breaking international complaint to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, Children vs. She has addressed the Democratic National Convention, the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. The lorax ( talk) 19:07, 16 August 2009 (UTC) Thanks, The lorax ( talk) 19:07, 16 August 2009 (UTC) Brianboulton comments This. Ive listed this article for peer review because its really close to Good Article status and I want to get a good analysis to help push it over. Now, at the age of 16, Alexandria has become an internationally recognized environmental activist, public speaker, author and founder of several more initiatives, including the youth-led climate education focused non-profit, Earth Uprising International. This peer review discussion has been closed. Youth Climate Strike movement, part of the youth led international Fridays for Future movement. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows Al Gore on the lecture circuit, as the former presidential candidate campaigns to raise public awareness of the dangers of global warming and calls for immediate action to curb its destructive effects on the environment. It’s been 15 years since former vice president Al Gore sounded the climate change alarm bell with his Academy Award-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. With Al Gore, Billy West, George Bush, George W. At the age of 13, Alexandria Villaseñor co-founded the U.S. An Inconvenient Truth: Directed by Davis Guggenheim.