… the world’s got me!

This coming Saturday at 10am on TV2 the doco that I edited and shot additional photography on is being broadcast! Please watch it if your interested in young people being creative with film for promoting sustainability:

Olly Coddington fronts an I AM TV special on TV2 for World Environment Day. The programme celebrates winners of The Outlook for Someday sustainability film challenge for young people.

The programme offers an entertaining take on the subject of taking care of our planet. The aim is to provoke thought and to have fun on the way.

Olly shows us excerpts from the winning films and puts some of the young film-makers through new sustainability challenges. In this he is joined by five high-profile New Zealanders:

• League legend Tawera Nikau
• Jack Tame, ONE News Reporter and TV Guide’s Rising Star award winner for 2009
• Green politician and organic famer Jeanette Fitzsimons
• Fran Kora, musician from the reggae / dub / rock band Kora
• Actor Taungaroa Emile

The featured winning films range from a comedy about bike pooling to an animation about the impact of cities on our mental health; from documentaries about growing your own food, the effects of plastic bags and the power of street protest to a mockumentary about the environmental effects of farming.

Our entry to last years 48hour film challenge:

Last Thursday young winning film-makers from all around the country converged at TVNZ in Auckland for The Outlook for Someday awards ceremony. Keisha Castle-Hughes was there to give out awards and so was the new Minister of Youth Affairs Paula Bennet. The whole evening went really well and now the Winning Films are being broadcast on TVNZ6 and are online here.

Now the team here at Connected Media are moving on to pre production of the second The Outlook for Someday documentary.