YOUTH v GOV is Sponsored by Karnopp Petersen LLP
The Environmental/Outdoor Feature Competition is Sponsored by NewSun Energy
YOUTH v GOV is the story of America’s youth taking on the world’s most powerful government, filing a ground-breaking lawsuit against the U.S. government. They assert it has willfully acted over six decades to create the climate crisis, thus endangering their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property. The Juliana plaintiffs represent the diversity of America’s youth impacted by the climate crisis. Hailing from across the country, they encompass cultural, economic racial, and geographic diversity, with many from marginalized communities, and their stories are universal. Their diversity speaks not only to the impacts of climate change, but to the inclusion required if we are to build a better, more just future together. If these young people are successful, they will not only make history, they will change the future.
About the Director:
Producer/Director Christi Cooper is a PhD scientist, documentary filmmaker, and Emmy-award-winning cinematographer. Christi focuses her storytelling and visual narratives on issues of justice and impact by creating human connections to the most pressing issues of our time. She left a successful academic and research career in Europe to obtain an MFA in Science & Natural History Filmmaking (graduate thesis: Contemporary Advocacy Filmmaking: Campaigns for Change). In 2011, Christi co-created Stories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery, a 10-part documentary series featuring youth plaintiffs suing their state governments over climate change. Christi is the inaugural SFFilm/Vulcan Productions Environmental Film Fellow and the first Jacob Burns Film Center Focus on Nature Artist-in-Resident.
Film Contact:
Christi@barrelmakerproductions.com
Www.youthvgovfilm.com
@youthvgovfilm
- Runtime110 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUSA
- PremiereCentral Oregon Premiere (South of Portland and east of the Cascades)
- DirectorChristi Cooper
YOUTH v GOV is Sponsored by Karnopp Petersen LLP
The Environmental/Outdoor Feature Competition is Sponsored by NewSun Energy
YOUTH v GOV is the story of America’s youth taking on the world’s most powerful government, filing a ground-breaking lawsuit against the U.S. government. They assert it has willfully acted over six decades to create the climate crisis, thus endangering their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property. The Juliana plaintiffs represent the diversity of America’s youth impacted by the climate crisis. Hailing from across the country, they encompass cultural, economic racial, and geographic diversity, with many from marginalized communities, and their stories are universal. Their diversity speaks not only to the impacts of climate change, but to the inclusion required if we are to build a better, more just future together. If these young people are successful, they will not only make history, they will change the future.
About the Director:
Producer/Director Christi Cooper is a PhD scientist, documentary filmmaker, and Emmy-award-winning cinematographer. Christi focuses her storytelling and visual narratives on issues of justice and impact by creating human connections to the most pressing issues of our time. She left a successful academic and research career in Europe to obtain an MFA in Science & Natural History Filmmaking (graduate thesis: Contemporary Advocacy Filmmaking: Campaigns for Change). In 2011, Christi co-created Stories of TRUST: Calling for Climate Recovery, a 10-part documentary series featuring youth plaintiffs suing their state governments over climate change. Christi is the inaugural SFFilm/Vulcan Productions Environmental Film Fellow and the first Jacob Burns Film Center Focus on Nature Artist-in-Resident.
Film Contact:
Christi@barrelmakerproductions.com
Www.youthvgovfilm.com
@youthvgovfilm
- Runtime110 minutes
- LanguageEnglish
- CountryUSA
- PremiereCentral Oregon Premiere (South of Portland and east of the Cascades)
- DirectorChristi Cooper
