An Amazon Night's Dream goes to COP30 Brazil
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Our EthnoKino Doc Impact Lab Mov(i)ement Fellow Diego Sarmiento's film An Amazon Night's Dream has been selected to be screened at the climate negotiations during COP30 in Belem Brazil.
Perry World House (PWH), the University of Pennsylvania’s home for global policy engagement, and UNFCCC’s Resilience Frontiers (RF) initiative are pleased to announce the winner of the inaugural “Global Lens: Visions of Resilience” film festival is Diego Sarmiento of Peru. Mr. Sarmiento’s film, An Amazon’s Night Dream.
“The film is a poetic intergenerational dialogue about caring for nature,” said filmmaker Diego Sarmiento. “However, the grandmother also represents the land itself. The film highlights the importance of turning our gaze back to spirituality and ancestral knowledge, and of reconnecting with the spirits of the land and the planet. Winning this award is an incentive to continue working for and on behalf of the environment, and it is dedicated to the defenders of the planet, many of whom, sadly, are killed in the Global South.”
Mr. Sarmiento’s film was chosen for its story, perspective, and how it highlighted the eight transformative pathways of Resilience Frontiers that offer a glimpse at an Earth-positive future. As part of the film’s win, it will be screened at an upcoming climate negotiation session hosted by the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), allowing Mr. Sarmiento’s inspiring message to reach a broad international audience.
“Diego’s film, An Amazon Night’s Dream, stood out for its creativity and touching storytelling,” said Youssef Nassef, director of UNFCCC’s Adaptation Division and founder of RF. “He was also able to clearly outline how each of us has a role to play in creating a resilient climate future—one of the key messages that Resilience Frontiers seeks to advance.”
“At Perry World House, we understand the seriousness of this crisis and have made climate change one of our four key pillars of work,” said PWH Deputy Director Michael Weisberg. “We are inspired by the way An Amazon’s Night Dream captures the human dimension of the climate crisis—a crisis that the world must work together to solve.”
Perry World House’s mission is to bring the academic knowledge of the University of Pennsylvania to bear on some of the world’s most pressing global policy challenges, and to foster international policy engagement within and beyond the Penn community. It draws on the expertise of Penn’s 12 schools and numerous globally-oriented research centers to educate the Penn community and prepare students to be well-informed, contributing global citizens. At the same time, Perry World House connects Penn with leading policy experts from around the world to develop and advance innovative policy proposals.
Resilience Frontiers is a unique UNFCCC-led initiative which lets us shake off the limitations of today’s systems to think and act in ways that create a resilient, thriving future for humanity and nature. The initiative shows how, by harnessing tools like frontier technologies, indigenous knowledge, and good environmental stewardship, it is possible to continuously enrich, rather than deplete, our future world.
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