Film Screenings: Take One Action Film Festival's 'What The Cop?' film initiative

We launched our new cinema space in our Community Space with a series of film screenings for ‘What The Cop?’ an exciting film initiative by Take One Action Film Festival to help groups across Scotland explore climate issues in the lead-up to the UN Climate Conference being hosted in Glasgow in November. Throughout September and October, the initiative supported community groups of all shapes and sizes across Scotland to host screenings; explore key climate justice issues and find collective routes to action in November – and beyond.

With the help of Creative Scotland and its Screen Scotland Cinema Equipment fund, plus hard work from our committee members!

22/10/21 SCREENING: ‘THANK YOU FOR THE RAIN’ (2016) directed by Julia Dahr!
The film is a moving portrait of resilience as a Kenyan farmer uses his camera to capture the daily life of his family, his village, and the direct impacts of climate change.

Five years ago Kisilu, a Kenyan farmer, started to use his camera to capture the life of his family, his village and the damages of climate change. When a violent storm throws him and a Norwegian filmmaker together we see him transform from a father, to community leader to an activist on the global stage.

29/10/21 SCREENING: ‘NOT WITHOUT US’ directed by Mark Decena (2016)
A rousing documentary immersing viewers in the moving, personal journeys of seven grassroots campaigners from around the world as they attempt to harness the only force that can prevent catastrophic climate change: the will of the people.

From decreasing biodiversity to indigenous land rights abuses, Not Without Us connects the dots between growing economic inequality, fossil fuel driven economies and government inaction in the face of the greatest crisis engulfing our planet. Putting frontline communities’ perspectives at its centre, it powerfully conveys their call for deep, far-reaching system change.

06/11/21 SCREENING: ‘LIVING PROOF’ Directed by Emily Munro
In the year that Scotland hosts the UN’s climate change conference (COP26), Living Proof explores the country’s complex relationship to the global climate crisis through film and music. In this new feature-length documentary from Scotland’s Moving Image Archive, curated footage evocatively shows how our environment has been shaped by the demand for energy, industry and growth, soundtracked by Scottish musicians past and present.

Curator and director Emily Munro frames Scotland’s post-war history through the lens of the current debate, inviting audiences on a journey to revisit the promises of the past and consider how they relate to our future on this planet. Was climate change inevitable? Can we break free from a boom-and-bust mentality? Are we able to adapt to ensure a healthy and sustainable future for generations to come?

'Living Proof' is a partnership project between the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive and Film Hub Scotland.

What The Cop? Is supported by Film Hub Scotland , part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and National Lottery funding from the BFI.