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Hot Poets makes the ‘Official Selection’ at the Better Cities Film Festival, Detroit
19 Sept 2024
🎬We have exciting news to share with you… Hot Poets ‘Super Sleuths of the Streets’ written and performed by Liv Torc has been selected to be screened at the 2024 Better Cities Film Festival in Detroit!
🌿‘Super Sleuths of the Streets’ tells the story of Urban ReLeaf from 10 years into the future and features all six pioneering cities and the citizens of Athens, Cascais, Dundee, Mannheim, Riga, and Utrecht.
⚡️The film was created, in collaboration with University of Dundee, as part of the UNFCCC Resilience Frontiers programme. It was directed by Chris Redmond and Liv Torc from Hot Poets. It was filmed by Daniel Dobbie and edited by Jon Hardy from Counterstate Films
🍿The film will be screened on Sat 21 September at 3pm (Detroit time) and throughout the year at the Better Cities satellite screening events.
🎥The Film Festival collects, curates, and presents the best films from around the world on the theme of making cities and towns better places to work, live and play, it presents these films at its annual four-day flagship festival in Detroit, Michigan, and in ‘Best of Fest’ screenings in towns across America.
🎉 “Congratulations to Hot Poets, for their fantastic achievement and overall inspiring and moving film.”
💚Thank you to Mel Woods and The Urban ReLeaf Team and the six cities for their help with providing key footage.
💫For more information please visit: https://www.bettercitiesfilmfestival.com
Look we got an Honourable Mention for one of our Haiku Futures Films at the Beyond Borders International Film Festival – this is super exciting!
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HOT POETS WORK WITH NEW ZEALAND CLIMATE WRITERS
AUCKLAND WRITERS FESTIVAL
14 – 19 MAY 2024
OUR CULTURE, OUR CLIMATE – VOICES FROM ACROSS THE PACIFIC
Our Culture, Our Climate – Voices from Across the Pacific is the culmination of a three-month collaboration between internationally renowned UK climate poetry collective, Hot Poets and dynamic Māori & Pacific poets based in Tāmaki Makaurau curated by Zech Soakai.
Together they’ve embarked on a journey of understanding of how art and activism intersect, and co-created powerful works that amplify the stories and voices of those from across the Moana who are disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis.
The writing that has come out of this experience will be showcased at the New Zealand, Aukland Writer’s Festival on Sat 18th May. Get your tickets here
The showcase captures personal, political, local and global narratives of the climate emergency’s effects through the lens of tangata whenua & tangata moana poets and storytellers.
Supported by The British Council Connections Through Culture Grant.
Advice from Hot Poets’ Chief Scientist
Dr. Michal Nachmany
Dr. Michal Nachmany is an international climate policy and governance expert with background in law, finance, and multinational project management. She is the founder and CEO of Climate Policy Radar, a not for profit climate startup, mapping global climate policy using AI. She spent a decade at the Grantham Research Institute at LSE, where she led the work on structured datasets and tools supporting national legislation and policy and low-carbon investment.
Michal also worked with the Transition Pathway Initiative and with Climate Action 100+, an investor coalition with over $55 trillion AUM; she’s a fellow of the UNFCCC Resilience Frontiers, a member of the Camda Community for credible climate action, and a Member of the Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability. She holds a PhD in climate policy from LSE, an MBA, an MA in energy management, and an LLB in law.
Take climate change action and feel agency!
Scientists and poets are both translators, mediators – making sense of things we see, feel, anticipate. Scientists and poets do it in different ways, in different languages – but all of us need and ask the same thing of you – be part of the collective that pushes back against climate change until we are back in the safe zone. We need you to feel the urgency, and to feel the agency.
What can you do? Talk about climate change, with your family, friends, colleagues. It’s uncomfortable to talk about it, but we won’t be able to move an inch by ignoring it. Don’t forget to listen. Good scientists and good poets do more listening than talking. Have brave conversations. Check your information sources. Don’t be fooled by those who wish to protect the status quo.
Be a citizen – whatever that means for you – of your community, of your country, of the world. Use your voice, your power, your vote, to influence decision making. Show up, speak up, bring others along. In your workplace, school, community, family – see what decisions you can make yourself and which bigger ones you can influence. Every bit matters. Every molecule of CO2 avoided is step in the right direction and a fraction less of suffering.
Expert/Scientist: Dr. Michal Nachmany
Matched with: All the Hot Poets, to give advice on the big picture of climate change action.
“Urgency and Agency. Rage and optimism. Science and poetry. Mix them up well and serve on a cooler planet.”
