EuroPAWS Environment
in TV
and New Media Festival 2008
3 and 4 November, 2008
The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London
W1
Screenings of TV programmes
and New Media Productions from across Europe, and
Panel-led discussion |
(Click here or see end of this page for full details on all programmes
at end of this page)
International Judging Panel
Simonetta Tunesi
Simonetta Tunesi is an Italian Environmental Chemist. Her main research interests focus on soil chemistry, in particular on the relationship between soil, groundwater and pollutants. She is currently Research Fellow at the Environment Institute of University College London, where she is conducting research on the climate change effect of waste management urban policies.
Simonetta started and directed the Office for Clean-up of contaminated sites for the Italian Environmental Agency. She is a member of Scientific Committee of Legambiente one of the main Italian environmental NGO.
The daughter of a poet mother, she believes she could not appreciate the beauty of scientific investigation if she had not be exposed to the complexity of a poem line.
Paul Appleby
Paul Appleby is a BAFTA award-winning producer with 25 years of experience making programmes for BBC's prestigious Natural History Unit. He has produced TV and interactive programmes from 2 minutes to 90 minutes duration, focussing on the relationship between people, animals, and the environment.
Paul's most recent project, 'Saving Planet Earth' was a season of 36 programmes
plus website, video downloads, and public events. It also created the BBC Wildlife
Fund, which raised £2m for conservation projects in the UK and around the world.
Neil Calder
Neil Calder is Head of Communication for ITER, the International Fusion Energy organisation based in Cadarache, France. He has held some of the most important posts in Science Communication worldwide. For fifteen years, he ran the communication office at CERN in Geneva, breaking new ground with Web applications for science communication. In 2001, he moved to Stanford University in California where he was Director Communications at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. During this period Neil established global collaborations between communications offices in the major science laboratories around the world.
Neil has produced and worked on many TV documentaries and several full length
movies. He used to be principally interested in media and education but now he
is focused on how to guarantee funding for Science.
Diarmaid Mac Mathuna
Diarmaid MacMathuna is Head of Production at Agtel, a long established media company based in Dublin which specializes in television, video, and web production. He has a wealth of proven experience in video production, and his deep understanding of science communication, television and on-line video is complemented by his Masters Degree by Research in Physics. Diarmaid has produced a series of four educational DVDs for the European Space Agency's education programme, and he has also produced and directed numerous videos that help communicate scientific research.
His portfolio of clients includes the Irish government's awareness-raising initiative Discover Science and Engineering as well as the country's largest scientific research organisation Teagasc These projects have made significant use of the web as a video distribution channel along with DVD and television. One of the television documentaries that Diarmaid was involved with is the BBC Northern Ireland documentary 'Northern Star' which tells the story of physicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the discovery of Pulsars . It has recently been short listed in the Best Science Documentary category of the Grierson Awards.
Claire Mouchet
Claire was born in France in 1971, where she attended the
University Claude Bernard Lyon I and obtained a degree in physiology before going
to the University of Laval, Quebec, Canada with the exchange programme CREPUQ
(Conference des Recteurs et Professeurs des Universités du Quebec) for her Masters in Animal Physiology. She did the first year of a four-year PhD at the University of Aix-Marseille II and then moved to the UK where she obtained her PhD in 2001 from the University of Manchester: Following her PhD, she went to King's College London for a two-year postdoctoral position before moving in 2003 to the positiion of Scientific Attaché at
the Science and Technology Department of the French Embassy in the UK, where
she is in charge of Life Sciences.
Bettina Brinkman
Bettina Brinkmann is Head of Formats & Special Events Unit, European Broadcasting Union, Geneva.
She studied Film, TV and Psychology at Ruhr-University Bochum and Media Science at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. In 1998 she completed her academic training with a PhD. She worked as assistant of the CEO, CCC-Film, Berlin ("Die weisse Rose", "Hanussen"),
as Manager, Film acquisition and planning, VOX, Cologne, and as a consultant
and producer for several international media companies. Further positions were
manager for childrens programmes and international co-productions, ZDF-Enterprises,
Mainz, project-manager (New media solutions for Bertelsmann Valley, Hamburg),
and Head of Development, ZDF, Mainz.
DAY 1, Monday 3 November
09.00 |
"Vu
du Ciel" (Earth from Above), Episode 1: Bio-diversity
Societe Europeenne de Production, France 2 |
10.30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
10.45 |
"How can we really save the Climate", from "Quarks
and Co" (Magazine Series), WDR, Germany |
11.35 |
"CO2 Heliotrop" from "Galileo" (Magazine series), Prosieben, Germany |
11.45 |
"Batir Ecologique" (Building ecologically) from "Chronique d'en haut" (Magazine series), France 3 |
12.20 |
"Une Vague d'Energie" (A
Wave of Energy), Video from CNRS Images, France |
12.35 |
"CO2NTRA Promotional
Video", Prosieben, Germany |
12.55 |
LUNCH BREAK |
14.00 |
"Carbon Capture", Video
from the European Commission |
14.15 |
"Destination Antarctica", from
Greentravelguides.tv, UK |
14.20 |
"Futurescope", Video from
the UK Environment Agency |
14.30 |
"BBC Climate Change Game", a Red Redemption Production |
14.45 |
"Burn Up", Episode
1 of two part drama, BBC |
16.15 |
TEA BREAK |
16.35 |
PANEL-LED DISCUSSION (for
more information, see below)
"Images Matter - The Changing Role of TV and other Media in Communicating Modern Science" |
17.50 |
DINNER BREAK |
19.00 |
"Playing God with the Weather" from the documentary series "The Science of Superstorms", BBC |
19.35 |
"Children of the Flood", ZDF,
Germany |
20.25 |
"Waste Equals Food", VPRO,
Netherlands |
21.25 |
"Iedereen Eco" Carbon Footprints,
VRT, Belgium |
21.50pm |
CLOSE |
|
DAY 2, Tuesday 4 November
09.00am |
"ECO-CRIMES" (Episode
on CFCs), ARTE (from WDR), Germany/France |
09.55 |
"Fata Morgana" (Engaging the
Public), VRT, Belgium |
11.00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
11.15 |
"O2H - From Oil to
Hydrogen", Video from Enrico Marchese and Raffaello
Pavesi, Italy |
12.15 |
"Offshore Wind Power", item from "Countryfile", BBC
1 |
12.25 |
"Logo - The World's Climate" (Youth),
ZDF, Germany |
12.45 |
"Newsnight - On Patrol
in the Arctic" +WEB, BBC 2 |
13.00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
14.00 |
"Global WarNing", A programme
in the T4 youth strand from AT IT Production Company for
Channel 4, UK |
14.50 |
"Pur+ - Nothing but
Rubbish", ZDF, Germany |
15.20 |
"Two Poles One Planet", Video
from the International Polar Foundation |
15.40 |
TEA BREAK |
15.55 |
"In the Climatic Depths", Video
from CNRS Images, France |
16.25 |
"Europe's Climate Challenge", Video
from SMOS/European Space Agency |
16.40 |
"Consequences of Climate
Change", ZDF Interactive, Germany |
16.50 |
"The One Show - Floods", BBC1 |
16.55 |
"Cover Story - Spanish Scientists
in the Arctic", Channel 2, TVE, Spain |
17.40 |
CLOSE |
|
Special jury viewing: "Global WarNing" by Pioneer Productions (UK)
for US History Channel.
Programmes from 9.00 to 12.55 on Day 1, November 3, are planned to be in the original language with simultaneous translation available. All other programmes will be in English or with English subtitles.
Images Matter
- The Changing Role of TV and other Media in Communicating
Modern Science
4.30pm, Monday 3 November, 2008
The Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London
W1 |
A panel-led discussion at the "Environment
in TV and New Media Festival", looking at the repercussions for
communicating science and technology from a rapidly changing world.
One of the impacts of Global Warming - or the predictions of it - is
to heighten awareness of the central role of science and technology
in understanding and tackling environmental issues. But a scan of news stories today underlines how the public engagement with science and technology has a much wider significance.
This session will be driven by TV and other media professionals, who will recount
how their own roles are changing as a result of scientific and engineering developments
and where they see further change on the way. Fresh formats, new ways to reach
different audiences, and innovative ways of conveying messages in existing formats
will all feature. The three goals of science communication - preparing a wide
public to make informed decisions, jobs, and science and technology as part of
modern culture - will be addressed.
Panellists
John Lynch
Head of Science, BBC
John joined the BBC in 1976 as the researcher for James
Burke's classic television series, Connections. As a producer and director he
made several television series and 14 films for Horizon, ranging from the eruption
of Mount St Helens to the Nobel prize-winning discovery of buckminsterfullerene
and the dinosaur-hunting expeditions in the Gobi Desert. John also produced the
story of Fermat's Last Theorem, which won a BAFTA. In 1994 he was appointed Editor
of Horizon, and saw it go on to win a BAFTA for best documentary series. He also
executive produced the BBC's landmark science series The Planet, and the international
hit Walking With Dinosaurs - netting another BAFTA and an Emmy in the process.
John was made head of the BBC Science Unit in 2000, responsible for all major
BBC science documentary programmes, and oversaw the science push into factual
dramatisations, such as Seven Wonders Of The Industrial
World, Pompeii: The Last Day, and Supervolcano. He was appointed Head of BBC Science & History in 2006
and following the creation of BBC London Factual in January 2008, his role is
now dedicated to leading science.
He has also written the books Wild Weather, Walking With
Cavemen and Earth: The Power Of The Planet, which accompanied their respective BBC television series.
Lizzie Mickery
Lizzie Mickery was originally an actress before starting her career on the ITV police show The Bill. She has adapted several novels for the BBC including the Beggar
Bride and the Ice House. She launched the Inspector
Lynley Mysteries from the novels by Elizabeth George. Other work includes the first three films of the Messiah franchise. Single films include Love
or Money, Everytime You Look at Me and the award winning Sinners.
Lizzie was co-writer with Daniel Percival on Dirty War, a co-production
with HBO and BBC Films. They collaborated again on the six part conspiracy thriller, The
State Within, a co-production with the BBC and BBC America. She was both
writer and executive producer on Instinct, a two part thriller. She
has adapted The
39 Steps to be shown at Christmas on BBC1 and is presently working on an
original drama Paradox and a series loosely based on Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea for the BBC, as well as a series Merrick
and MacBride for ITV.
Jack Kennedy
Producer, BBC Factual Entertainment
Jack Kennedy is Development Producer, Factual Entertainment Development responsible for developing Factual Entertainment ideas for in-house BBC. Recent commissions include To
The Ends of the Earth for BBC1 (to be aired next year.)
Before joining the BBC Jack worked in development for the independent film and television production company, Company Pictures and before working in TV he worked as an agent for a series of talent agencies, representing big names from the world of Television
Neil Calder
Head of Communications, ITER
Neil Calder is Head of Communication for ITER, the World's
Nuclear Fusion Project based in Cadarache, France.
He has held some of the most important posts in Science Communication worldwide. For fifteen years, he ran the communication office at CERN in Geneva, breaking new ground with Web applications for science communication. In 2001, he moved to Stanford University in California where he was Director Communications at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. During this period Neil established global collaborations between communications offices in the major science laboratories around the world.
Neil has produced and worked many TV documentaries and several full length movies. He used to be principally interested in media and education but now he is focused on how to guarantee funding for Science.
Midas Awards Entries
Environmental science and technology in:
Category: European
TV Drama or Documentary
Science of Superstorms
Episode 2: Playing God with the
Weather, 2007
Linked to a drama serial on Superstorms was this series of documentaries exploring the science behind human attempts to alter the weather. In this programme the phenomenon of seeding clouds to cause rainfall is seen to have opened up some controversial applications. Uses in Mali to create much needed rain are counter-pointed with the strategic triggering of rainfall during the Vietnam war and a stunning use of seeding after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Producer and Director: Fiona Scott
Executive Producer: Michael Mosley
Series Producer: Ailsa Orr
A BBC/Discovery Channel/Prosieben production in association with M6 |
Burn Up
Episode 1, BBC
Drama, UK, 2008
This two part drama brings together the worlds of the oil industry, science and politics in a fast moving story from the production company behind "Spooks", the acclaimed series on the security services. Rooted in real scientific developments, and looking ahead to the Kyoto 2 conference in late 2009, the drama interweaves personal and professional conflicts with frightening realism.
Writer: Simon Beaufoy
Director: Omar Madha
Producer: Christopher Hall
Executive Producer: Stephen Garrett
Execuive Producer for the BBC: Lucy Richer
A KUDOS Seven 24 Production for the BBC in association with
aLCHEMY and Canwest |
Waste equals Food
Documentary from VPRO Television,
The Netherlands (from the series Backlight, 2006)
Recycling is now well recognized, but designing products for recycling is only recently gaining ground. Two gurus of this "waste equals food" philosophy, German Chemist Michael Braungart the American architect William McDonough, take us through some revealing industrial settings, from Nike with footwear designed for re-use after its normal life to the Ford motor company where a senior executive undergoes a major attitudinal change. The globalization of this "cradle to cradle design concept" is further illustrated with an example from China.
Writer: Rob van Hattum
Producers: Madeleine Somer and Karin Spiegel |
Ozone-Killers
Episode 1 of the series ECO-CRIMES,
ARTE (from WDR)
(to be broadcast 17 - 19 November 2008
So popular are crime series that ARTE and WDR (plus other co-producers) have seized the opportunity for a new angle opened up by modern environmental concerns. This docu-drama is the first of a three enquiries into different environmental transgressions. It looks at infringements in the use of CFCs (Chloro-fluoro Carbons), long banned for their harmful effect on the Ozone layer.
Writers: Thomas
Weidenbach and Heinz Greuling
Directors: Heinz Greuling and Thomas Weidenbach
Executive Producer: Thomas Weidenbach
Coproducers: Cedric Bonin and Pascaline Geoffroy
Commissioning Editors: Andrea Ernst (WDR/ARTE) and Daniele
Joerg (WDR)
A Laengengrad FilmProduktion in co-production with Seppia and WDR, in collaboration with ARTE |
Children of the Flood
ZDF, Germany
Set in the year 2032, the effects of flooding caused by global warming are depicted in a mix of documentary footage, drama presentation and analysis. The likely reactions of local inhabitants and emergency services in Cologne and Bangladesh are offered as part if this bold attempt to stage possible future scenarios, with some fairly dire predictions. Measurements of current ice melting fuel the calculations. But some constructive solutions are also raised.
Writers and Directors: Thomas
Hies and
Jens Monath
Scientific Advisers: Professor Mojib Latif and Professor Stefan Rahmsdorf
Line Producer, Kadam Films: Sachin Singh
Production Executive, ZDF: Steffen Bayer
Executive Producer, ZDF: Heiner Gatzemeier
Docuvista Film Production for ZDF with ZDF Enterprises and ARTE |
Climate Change II
Channel 2, TVE, Spain,
2008
A Spanish Research ship sets sail for the Arctic, the first Spanish scientific expedition there. A TV crew accompanies them and captures footage of their research into the ice and micro-organisms beneathe the surface that can give clues to climatic change. Interview clips with the scientists, a fair percentage of whom are women, reveal their thoughts on the scientific endeavour and some broader issues. This film also underlines how many countries take pride in their contribution to climate research.
Scriptwriter: Angel Navarro
Producer: Ana Pastor
|
Tout est Vivant, Tout est Lie (Everything is alive, Everything is linked)
From the series Vu du Ciel (Earth from the Sky), France 2, 2006
Societe
Europeenne de Production for France 2
The key role of bio-diversity in the eco-system is the theme of this powerful film, which looks across the world at the effect of climate change on different species. It interweaves the wonder of the natural world with insights into environmental issues, issues which bind humankind into the fate of many local eco-systems. As the title of the series implies, there is much stunning aerial photography together with sensitive personal interventions as the problems of the natural world are linked by the common environmental challenge.
Writer/Presenter: Yves Arthus-Bertrand
Director: Pascal Plisson
Producer: Jean-Louis Remilleux
Producer Delegue: Renard Hetro
Executive France 2: Director of Documentaries and Magazines, Patricia Boutinard-Rouelle |
Category: European TV General Programming
Global Warning
An Eyeworks AT IT Production
for Channel 4, UK, 2007
A magazine style programme in the T4 series for youngsters taking a trendy tour through the impact of global warming. It includes a group visit to the arctic, a cameo on eco-friendly clothes, the seeding of rainfall in Africa and interviews with Al Gore and Director of the London Environment Institute Mark Maslin. The programme sets out to make the challenge of global warming fun as well as something "kids" ought to embrace.
Presenters: June
Sarpong and Rick Edwards
Producer: Fiona Scott
Director and "Filmed by": John Pereira
Executive Producers: Emily Hudd and Tamsin Summers
Co-Executive Producer: Kit Hawkins
|
On Patrol in the Arctic
One of a series of reports from 'Newsnight's
Arctic Adventure' + Web, BBC2, 2008
Science Editor Susan Watts sets sail with a team of scientist to bring first hand reports on the latest research into the state of Arctic ice and the organisms that give clues to climate change. Linked to the regular TV reports, such as this one on September 2 2008, are blogs from some of the scientists on board.
Reporter: Susan
Watts, Science Editor, Newsnight, BBC2
Producer: Ming Tsang
BBC 2 Executive: Jasmin Buttar
Newsnight Editor: Peter Barron
|
Offshore Wind Power
Item from Countryfile, BBC1,
2008
A major expansion in off shore windfarms is planned for the UK, putting Britain ahead of Denmark as Europe's leading provider of such energy. On the face of it this is a more efficient source of energy than land based windmills, but this rural affairs magazine programme takes a different look at the issue. The existing windfarm off Barrow highlights how the concrete structures both threaten current fishing practices, but also through the growth of organisms like mussels on the concrete support nourish the development of long term fish stocks.
Presenter: Miriam O'Reilly
Director: Bob Hockenhull
Series Producer: Teresa Bogan
Executive Editor: Andrew Thorman
|
Floods
Item from The One Show, BBC1,
2008
This primetime general magazine series prides itself on including science items often with an unusual twist. This report shows how a flooding of a piece of land can be used as a means of reducing a wider threat. With heavy rainfall and flooding appearing ever more common, this example highlights the ingenuity needed by the Environment Agency in minimising damage.
Producer: Helen Seaman
Executive Producer: Anne Laking
|
Batir Ecologique (Building Ecologically)
From the magazine programme "Chronique
d'en Haut"
France 3, Rhone Alpes Auvergne (Lyon), 2007
A complete episode of this magazine programme from the Rhone Alpes region of France 3 is devoted to a campaign across the department to provide solar powered heating for houses. With ample sunshine common, the reaction of various inhabitants who have experienced the change are laced with insights into the technology. The programme reflects the laid back style of the series, mixing scenic panoramas with human experiences and some original insights.
Presenter: Laurent Guillaume
Directors: Frederic Deret, Marc de Langenhagen production France 3, Laurent Cistac production Mecanos production |
Pur+; Nothing but Rubbish
ZDF Children and Youth Department,
Germany, 2007
The re-cycling of waste and how we can optimize the process is the subject of this edition of the youth series Pur+. This humorous and fast moving story traces what happens to a bag of garbage thrown into a rubbish collection. It also gives a family the task of producing no waste for a week - with one or two caveats. Taking en everyday item, it shows the technology behind the recycling of drinks cartons, and how the resulting material can then be used for containers for cartons. It concludes with some fun sequences, cartoons and jokey encounters.
Writer: Rita Gerhardus-Faust
Executive Producer Pur+: Tim Engelmann
Head of News and Informational Programmes: Eva Radlicki |
LOGO Extra - The World's Climate
ZDF, Germany, 2007
German television seems to have developed an strong cutting edge when it comes to the threat of climate change, and not least in children's television.
This special edition of the daily Children's News series LOGO involves schoolchildren in the challenges of global warming, including an interview with the German Environment Minister and some constructive suggestions for change. Evidence is presented from the Alps of melting glaciers, and why growth in the use of cars, and factories,0 are considered among the main causes of increased carbon in the atmosphere. A jump to 2050 gives a clue as to what the future may hold.
Writer: Imke Meier
Producer: Andrea Liebhod
Executive Producer: Markus Moerchen
|
CO2 Heliotrop
From the Science Magazine Galileo
Prosieben, Germany, 2007
A futuristic house designed by an architect who became so entranced with it that he and his wife moved in. This item from Galileo shows how almost all aspects of house design we assume are fixed, like the direction the house faces, or its shape, can be challenged. This house rotates slowly on its axis to maximize benefits from the sun, either for energy creation or to get shade in summer. It is designed for energy efficiency without loss of amenities, for re-cycling of waste, and much of it from wood. At a cost of 1.2 million Euros, it has much to tempt an environmentally conscious buyer.
Editor Galileo: Karsten Luepke
Executive
Prosieben: Karl Koenig |
Iedereen Eco (Carbon Footprints)
VRT, Belgium, 2007
Five celebrities agree to have their carbon footprint examined, in other words how their various activities contribute to carbon emissions. Food and travel both produce some unexpected results, and the amazement of the participants provides some good entertainment as well as enlightenment about what causes the most pollution. A giant footprint in the sand sets the tone for this lively production.
Writer: Niels Janssen
Producer: Luc Gommers
|
Category: European New Media Productions
Green Travel Guide - Antarctica, 2008
For Greentravelguides.tv
This is a soft sell promotional video for holiday travel to the Antarctic. About 30,000 tourists visit Antarctica each year, and this productions points up the opportunities to witness the wildlife close up and the spectacular and threatened ice facades. The need to limit passenger numbers on its tourist vessels to preserve the local environment is part of the green prospectus for this innovative web presentation.
Written and Produced by Gill Williams
Filmed and Edited by Steve Hills
Wildside UK Production for WildsideProductions.Tv |
Une Vague d'Energie (A wave of energy)
A video from CNRS Images, France, 2006
What is often not appreciated in discussions of different energy sources and their environmental benefits is that the efficiency of such sources can depend hugely on advances in technology and design. This video presents research on a new design of wave power vessel from a CNRS laboratory in Nantes. It sets it in the context of the huge potential for wave energy from the seas around Europe, currently largely unexploited. From computer models to the final tests of the new device, the evolution of a research project is conveyed with clear explanations and compelling arguments.
Director: Marcel Dalaise
Director of Production CNRS Images: Catherine Balladur
Head of Project SEAREV: Alain Clement
Laboratoire de Mecanique des fluids (CNRS-UMR 6598)
Equipe Hydrodynamique et Genie Oceanique
Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France |
Two Poles; One Planet
A Video for the World Meteorological
Day, 2007
What happens in the polar regions is key to the world's climate. That is the message of this video which is timed to co-incide with the International Polar year, 2007/8. It illustrates how the global wind systems and melting ice ensure that changes in the polar ice caps affect us all. The latest satellite technology combined with more traditional radio sounding provide a picture of extensive research on wind speeds and ice characteristics. In the Antarctic, an Argentinian team measures important quantities of gases and ultraviolet radiation.
Writer and Director: Olivier Malvoisin
Science Consultants (IPF): Nighat Johnson-Amin and Richard de Ferranti
Executive Producer: Michel de Wouters, MDW Productions
Produced for the World Meteorological Organisation by the International Polar Foundation |
Carbon Capture
A Mostra Production, Brussels,
for the European Commission
The possibility of capturing the carbon emissions from coal fired power stations to transform fossil fuels into an environmentally friendly source of energy is highly attractive. An experiment is being carried out at an existing power plant near Berlin to capture the carbon dioxide emissions and process them into a liquid form which is then buried underground in the space vacated by spent gas fields. A variant of this process has been carried out at a North Sea gas field where burnt gases have been re-injected back underground. This is deemed to have saved a million tons of CO2 emissions in a year. This video from the European Commission explains some of science and technology of the processes as well as progress in piloting this innovative technology. |
Consequences of Climate Change, 2008
ZDF Multi-media Application (Germany), Interactive Web linked to TV
This interactive Web production links to two ZDF television programmes exploring two different consequences of our changing climate, drought and floods. The web viewer is able to vary parameters and see predicted the effect on the climate at three levels, the World, the Arctic and Germany. Another facility is to see the science behind the predictions and how the model works. Two examples shown are from Australia and Germany. The production has been regularly updated since the TV broadcasts in 2007.
Editors: Malte
Borowiak and Dagmar
Reuber
Graphics support: Ingo Frommer and Heike Schmidt
Web Support: Rolf Zimmermann
Production: Till Stegermann
Design and Programming: Bungart Bessler
Sources of Simulations: Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, German High Performance Computing Centre for Climate and Earth Systems Research, Canadian Centre for Climate Centre and Modelling |
O2H From Oil to Hydrogen, 2006
A Video production from Enrico Marchesi and Raffaello Pavesi, Italy.
The case for moving from an oil-driven
economy to one based on hydrogen as a fuel is put persuasively
in this production. It argues that hydrogen offers potentially
cheap and clean fuel, and shows the example of Iceland where
a bus system runs on fuel cells supplied with hydrogen from
roadside pumps. The attraction of course is that hydrogen exists
in abundance in water. A vision is painted of a future Hydrogen
Society. |
BBC Climate Challenge Game, 2006
Red-Redemption, UK
The game spans the 21st century and allows the player to try out decisions which affect the environment. The player's role is that of President of Europe, and there is access to information on resources, policy, carbon emissions and popular opinion. The player can choose policies at different levels, for example at local level with wind farms, and can select what taxes can be levied. The aim is to stay in office.
Producer: Gobion Rowlands
Lead Designer: Ian Roberts
Oxford University Team Project Co-ordinator: Ian Curtis
|
CO2NTRA - A Campaign Showreel
From the GALILEO production team, Prosieben, Germany, 2008
Germany's popular TV science magazine GALILEO runs what an environmental campaign called CO2NTRA. This video brings together many items from its output covering a wide range of environmental issues, all focused on the need to find new products and processes to "save the climate". There are new ways of saving energy, quite radical alternative styles of house design, and gadgets designed to save CO2 in many household applications. There is even a plug from Al Gore. |
Fata Morgana
An Environment Challenge for a small town, VRT
Belgium, 2007
The Belgian Channel VRT picked the town of Bree and set up a number of environmental challenges to make it the greenest town in Flanders. The whole town becomes involved, from the enthusiasts to the sceptics, in tasks such as building a carousel from recycled items that runs on self-generated electricity, turning waste paper into writing paper, and created an exhibition of 100 environmentally friendly items. An aim is clearly to make environment challenges fun - and good television in the process.
Producer: Ann Marain
Writer: Ann marain
A VRT and Sultan Sushi Production for VRT, Belgium |
Dans Les Profondeurs du Climat (In the Climatic Depths)
A CNRS Co-Production with the
CNES, France and Eur-Oceans, 2006
One of the most influential areas on the world's climate is the ocean water which circulates around the Artarctic. This video production follows a major research expedition led by French oceanographer Christine Provost to measure this circum-polar current. It shows how a team of 40 scientists, with EU as well as French support, set out to measure the speed and temperature of the currents at different depths, using a variety of techniques. They also relate variations in wild life to climatic effects. Cameos of the scientists illustrate the commitment and camaraderie on such a research trip.
Director and Photography: Claude
Delahaye and Luc Ronat
CNRS Images Director of Production: Catherine Balladur
CNES Director of Communication, Education and Public Affairs: Danielle
Staerke and Philip Collot |
Futurescope
A video presentation from the Horizon Scanning Team
The Environment Agency 2008
The FutureScope series illustrates emerging issues in science and technology that may change the environment that the Environment Agency works to protect. Horizon scanning identifies emerging issues through a systematic gathering of evidence that gradually builds a story of how our world is evolving. These three videos from "Horizon Scanning" - Monitoring 2.0, Life 2.0 and Manufacturing 2.0 - take us to the second incarnation of some very familiar aspects of our lives.
- Monitoring becomes personal through sensors on your own mobile phone - how will your data compare with government data?
- Life based on man-made DNA will be designed to do what we want it to do - will we help or hinder the environment?
- Manufacturing comes home through a revolution in desktop printers - who regulates home factories?
The Environment Agency explores these questions in captivating high tech style for our own staff and visitors to exhibitions and other events.
Writers and Science Advisors:
Sarah
Bardsley, Jennifer De Lurio, Peter Simpson and Sarah Webb
Producers:
Christopher Vass, Rob Baggott, Simon Brown, Kiss My Pixel Production Company
Executive: Malcolm Gorton
|
SMOS - Another Step in Europe's Climate Change Challenge
A video from the European Space Agency (ESA), 2008
The SMOS satellite is designed to monitor the salinity and temperature of the oceans, key factors in determining the evolution of the Earth's climate. SMOS stands for soil, moisture and ocean salinity, and its data from scanning large swathes of the Earth's surface will help predict hurricanes.
Vivid computer images interplay with shots of the melting ice caps to underline the vital role played by Europe's Space agency ESA - much less heralded than its American counterpart NASA - in ascertaining the extent of climate change and some specific implications.
Producer: Ingrid
Van de Vyver (World Wide Pictures) for ESA
Europe by Satellite EbS |
Wie Retten wir das Klima Wirklich? (How can we really save the climate?)
From the science magazine Quarks and Co, WDR, Germany, 2007
This series, linked from the studio by Ranga Yogeshwar, presents science at a popular level. It has a thematic strand on what is likely to happen in the future, and this programme looks at a paradox in addressing climate change: why we are using so little of our knowledge in addressing what we now recognize is a huge challenge. The programme shows what the man in the street can do to help save the climate. They ask if biofuels offer a good alternative and how much CO2 is involved in transporting an apple from New Zealand. Two families are followed to measure the CO2 imprint of their diet.
Writers:
Jacob
Kneser, Claudia Ruby, Birgit Thater, Silvio Wenzel and Lars Westermann
Producers: Thomas Kamp and Lorentz Beckhardt
Executive Producer: Thomas Hallet
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Global WarNing?
Pioneer Productions (UK), 1 hr 22 mins
This major documentary for History Channels on both sides of the Atlantic charts the evolution of our climate over the ages and the implications for the world today. Fossilised plants from 25 millions years ago give clues as to the levels of CO2. Evidence from as long as 650 million years ago is cited to account for the rise and fall of global temperatures, interwoven with explanations as to why cooling and heating chain reactions occur. This exposition offers a powerful blend of animation, current research and historical visualization.
Writer and Director: Alex Hearie
Executive Producer Pioneer Productions: Stephen Marsh
Executive Producer The History Channel: Susan Werbe
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