Co-presented with the Embassy of France Screening will feature a pre-recorded discussion featuring Cosima Dannoritzer (Director), Mélanie Rochoux (Research Scientist, CECI, CERFACS-CNRS), and Sarah McCaffrey (Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service).﻿ <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/a78aa1b220d9cd95e5182d730fc7286c.jpg" width="191">

In the US, the fire season now lasts up to two months longer than a generation ago, and the surface burnt annually has multiplied by three. This film sets out on a gripping journey of investigation from Europe to the US, Canada, Brazil and Indonesia to follow the work of a global team of dedicated firefighters, scientists and fire experts as they investigate why our forests are burning and make an unexpected discovery: if we want to save our forests, homes, health and our climate, we need to radically change our attitude towards fire and the way we fight wildfires.

Megafires: Investigating a Global Threat

Follows the work of a global team of dedicated firefighters, scientists and fire experts as they investigate why our forests are burning and make an unexpected discovery: if we want to save our forests, homes, health and our climate, we need to radically change the way we fight wildfires.

Pre-recorded discussion featuring Cosima Dannoritzer (Director), Mélanie Rochoux, Sarah McCaffrey (Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service), moderated by Lisa Ann Pinkerton (Founder and Chairwoman; Women In Cleantech &amp; Sustainability). Cosima Dannoritzer is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who has worked for some of the world’s leading broadcasters (ARTE, BBC, Channel 4, TVC, TVE). Her films have screened at international festivals and been broadcast in numerous territories, provoking public debate and influencing political decision-making. Filmography: The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010. 12 international festival awards), The E-Waste Tragedy (2014. Prix Italia 2015), Time Thieves (2018. Best International TV Production, Docsbarcelona 2019), Megafires (2019).&nbsp; Dr. Mélanie Rochoux is a senior Research Scientist at CERFACS, a French research institute developing advanced methods for the numerical simulation of large scientific problems of interest for research and industry. She holds a PhD degree in engineering sciences from Ecole Centrale Paris (France, 2014). Her work is dedicated to the development of new modelling approaches to improve our understanding of wildland fire behavior and of their interactions with the atmosphere. Her expertise includes fire and land surface modeling, computational fluid dynamics and statistical learning. She collaborates for many years with the University of Maryland (USA) and the French meteorological services. Sarah McCaffrey is a Research Forester for the USDA Forest Service. Her research focuses on the social aspects of fire management. This has included projects examining social acceptability of prescribed fire, homeowner mitigation decisions, and social issues that occur during and after fires such as evacuation decision making and agency-community interactions. More recent work has focused on internal fire management considerations including barriers to use of fire as a management tool. She received her PhD in Wildland Resource Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Lisa Ann Pinkerton has used her keen analytical skills to share technology stories with the world for over a decade. She is Founder and CEO of the award-winning Technica Communications, Founder and Chairwoman of the non-profit Women In Cleantech &amp; Sustainability, an international speaker and moderator and documentary filmmaker. She was named a PR Executive of the Year by the American Business Awards (2020), Female Entrepreneur of the Year for Advertising and Marketing by the Women in Business and the Professions World Awards (2020), and a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal (2017). At Technica Communications, Lisa Ann leads companies through the web of new and traditional media with targeted messaging that bolsters business goals. As a former award-winning journalist, Lisa Ann acutely understands what motivates many journalists, in particular how they think, and she is routinely able to turn those insights into top-tier coverage. The company has received numerous awards, including Agency of the Year in Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations by the One Planet Awards, an American Business Award for PR Campaign of the Year (2020), a PR Bulldog Award for Best Use of Influencers (2020).

Post-Screening Discussion: Megafires

Feat. Cosima Dannoritzer, Mélanie Rochoux, Sarah McCaffrey, & Lisa Ann Pinkerton

Megafires: Investigating a Global Threat 

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