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Time For Reel Action (T4RA) is a video compilation of
Asia-Pacific Climate Change stories that explores the impacts, the
action and the Climate solutions emerging from the region.
The T4RA program is developing strategic partnerships with groups focused on climate change issues to both integrate video into their online strategies and to further support the aims of their campaigns.
There are thousands of urgent
climate stories in the Asia-Pacific. T4RA harnesses
the potential of video and the web to amplify these stories and their
demands for action.
T4RA reveals deeply personal concerns amongst film-makers across the Asia-Pacific, from the people of Sungai Utik in Kalimantan, struggling to maintain their farms in the face of drastic decline in rainfall, to the impacts of climate change on the coastal communities of Somoa.
View / download the T4RA videos below, subscribe to the video podcast or download the entire compilation via bit-torrent (includes Indonesian sub-titles).
Purchase one of more copies of the T4RA DVD at AUD$15 (+GST for Australian orders) via PayPal (inclusive of postage and handling to anywhere). All monies received is allocated to our Climate Crisis program supporting strategic distribution workshops for climate activists in Asia-Pacific.
The T4RA DVD and online
compilation has been produced with the assistance of HiVOS, in
collaboration with Friends of the Earth, Glow Alliance and Javin.
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What Are We Doing Here? T4RA Workshop @ SEL 49
Posted: Aug 11, 2010
02:39
Short video of EngageMedia's T4RA Climate Workshop in SEL 49, Jakarta. Participants included representatives from Javin, Greenpeace, Jatam, Air Putih, ProFauna and Forum Lenteng. Read more…
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Wake Up Freak Out
Posted: Jun 03, 2010
11:34
It turns out that the way we have been calculating the future impacts of climate change up to now has been missing a really important piece of the picture. It seems we are now dangerously close to the tipping point in the world's climate system; this is the point of no return, after which truly catastrophic changes become inevitable. Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip is a short, animated film about climate change by Leo Murray. Read more…
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Posted: May 04, 2010
Green Gone Wrong
In this day and age, people in Indonesia, particularly Jakarta, are jumping on the "green" trends bandwagon in a quest to save the Earth from the effects of global warming. Unfortunately, many misunderstand the essentials of going green, and take the term too literally - by wearing shirts with environment messages, joining popular environment groups, and basically wearing all kinds of green accessories. And on a higher level, people start buying biofuel products made from palm oils for their vehicles. Whilst biofuel itself is indeed producing significantly less CO2 emissions, the industry continues to sacrifice hectares of forests daily, destroying the very essence of saving the planet. Read more…
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Dark Sun
Posted: Feb 26, 2010
03:25
Short film by David Nerlich 1998. From deification to demonisation, the changing icon of the life-giving sun in the age of ozone depletion marks a spiritual decay that follows in the wake of the physical decay of our natural atmospheric defences. The advent of an evil sun icon also represents a neurotic abnegation of blame onto the sun for what is really the result of destructive human activity. This 3D animation follows a dreaming monologue, with transient voices and imagery floating and exchanging meaning. Read more…
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Kereta Angin Sahabat Bumi (Bicycle is the Friend of the Earth)
Posted: Nov 16, 2009
12:33
The Bike-to-Work community is trying to bring back biking as a method of transport for workers in the city. They however have to fight the traffic as other vehicles keep pushing them aside. The B2W's goal is also to help stop pollution in the quest to help the planet. Read more…
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The Unreliable World
Posted: Nov 05, 2009
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People from Sungai Utik, a village in Kalimantan, Indonesia discuss their observations of recent changes in their natural environment. Changes in rainfall and weather patterns are impacting on their ability to farm and hunt, and altering rainforest life. Read more…
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Small Islands, Big Impact
Posted: Oct 26, 2009
05:55
Mohamed Nasheed, President of the Maldives, sees climate change as both a human rights issue and a security threat. On the eve of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, he makes an earnest appeal for the world to defend the frontline states, such as his. Read more…
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Tofiga O Pili Aau
Posted: Oct 07, 2009
11:36
Documenting the impacts of climate change on the coastal communities in Samoa, 'Tofiga O Pili Aau' was created by representatives from eight villages on Savai-i and Upolu islands. Read more…
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When It Flood It Was Never Like This Before
Posted: Sep 27, 2009
03:22
In 2006, the Philippine Government activated the long dead Mining Act to encourage multi-nationals in giving mining industry a big come back in the archipelago. Resulting to a numerous tragedy including landslides, flash floods and many other unimaginable calamities that killed thousands of people and devastated all livelihoods. Despite all this, nobody was held accountable to these horrible tragedies. Recently (September 26, 2009), a big typhoon struck Metro Manila and flooded the whole metropolis for the first time. And still nobody is accountable to this horrible tragedy. Read more…
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Dirty Old Coal
Posted: Aug 17, 2009
05:02
Dirty Old Coal is a short film made to emphasize how the coal industry is fed to consumers like brands of breakfast cereal. Like going to the supermarket to buy our breakfast cereal the option of renewables isn't on plain view and offer like coal is and sometimes it seems as though that is all we can get when reaching for the shelf. Read more…
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Climate Change Options
Posted: Jan 03, 2008
12:21
Now that the general public accepts climate change and wants to help (thanks, Al Gore) more information is needed. There are real solutions and there's "greenwashing" and wishful thinking. Read more…
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