Environment
Nile film live on Guardian site.
The 16 minute cut of our new film Death of the Nile? is now live on the Guardian website!
Follow this link to view:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2010/jan/15/climate-change-nile
Enjoy!
Follow this link to view:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2010/jan/15/climate-change-nile
Enjoy!
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Nile film distribution news...
15/12/09 11:34 Filed in:Film
We're very excited to announce that the short cut of our film Death of the Nile? has already been picked up for broadcast!
Thanks to our distribution deal with Journeyman Films
, the film has been picked up by NHK, Japan's national public broadcaster. This is a major coup and it means that the film will get exposure in one of the world's most significant TV markets.
The film is also slated to be screened in January 2010 on the environment pages of the Guardian's website.
We are still looking for a broadcast or funding partner interested in developing the project further to produce a 52 minute documentary. Journeyman are keen to get the final doc as soon as possible for distribution!
Thanks to our distribution deal with Journeyman Films
The film is also slated to be screened in January 2010 on the environment pages of the Guardian's website.
We are still looking for a broadcast or funding partner interested in developing the project further to produce a 52 minute documentary. Journeyman are keen to get the final doc as soon as possible for distribution!
Journeyman Pictures take DON cut!
07/12/09 17:57 Filed in:Film
We're pleased to announce that independent documentary film distributor Journeyman Pictures have accepted our short 15 minute cut of our new film project "Death of the Nile?"
We have been working with Journeyman for the past year and they have been a great help to us in developing the film project, so we are naturally really pleased that the film is now being distributed to their worldwide client base via their web site. So thanks to them.
Huge thanks also to Sally Ann Wilson at the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. The CBA-DFID Broadcast Media scheme has funded this project.
There are a couple of tweaks needs to the voice over and to subtitles, but the film is now ready to be picked up by UK and international broadcasters.
You can view the film here:
The film is also available through the Journeyman site here:
http://www.journeyman.tv/
Follow the links to "Death of the Nile?"
We have been working with Journeyman for the past year and they have been a great help to us in developing the film project, so we are naturally really pleased that the film is now being distributed to their worldwide client base via their web site. So thanks to them.
Huge thanks also to Sally Ann Wilson at the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association. The CBA-DFID Broadcast Media scheme has funded this project.
There are a couple of tweaks needs to the voice over and to subtitles, but the film is now ready to be picked up by UK and international broadcasters.
You can view the film here:
Death of the Nile? (15 min cut) from Andy Johnstone on Vimeo.
The film is also available through the Journeyman site here:
http://www.journeyman.tv/
Follow the links to "Death of the Nile?"
Coffee, Bugs & Rust
17/11/09 18:21 Filed in:Film
Well, we're back from Uganda after an excellent week's shoot.
One of the key stories that we were looking to cover was about coffee. We met famers on Mt Elgon near the border with Kenya whose crop has been badly affected by pests that have chomped their way through the Arabica coffee crop which the community depends on. The increasing annual temperatures in the region have also meant that coffee has become susceptible to 'leaf rust".
Are there any solutions for the Ugandan farmers? According to Dr Declan Conway from UEA, in an interview that we have just shot in London, it is poorer communities, who rely mostly on agriculture for their livelihoods that are least able to adapt to the threats posed by climate change. Meanwhile, developed countries that are less reliant on agriculture and have more varied economies are better placed to cope with climate change. It is easier to relocate your service industry to an office higher up the hill as the river floods than it is to acquire new land.
Ironically, poorer countries, who have contributed the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, are the most likely to pay the price for the damage done to the planet. Something tells me that that is not right...
One of the key stories that we were looking to cover was about coffee. We met famers on Mt Elgon near the border with Kenya whose crop has been badly affected by pests that have chomped their way through the Arabica coffee crop which the community depends on. The increasing annual temperatures in the region have also meant that coffee has become susceptible to 'leaf rust".
Are there any solutions for the Ugandan farmers? According to Dr Declan Conway from UEA, in an interview that we have just shot in London, it is poorer communities, who rely mostly on agriculture for their livelihoods that are least able to adapt to the threats posed by climate change. Meanwhile, developed countries that are less reliant on agriculture and have more varied economies are better placed to cope with climate change. It is easier to relocate your service industry to an office higher up the hill as the river floods than it is to acquire new land.
Ironically, poorer countries, who have contributed the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, are the most likely to pay the price for the damage done to the planet. Something tells me that that is not right...
Off and running...
21/10/09 18:12 Filed in:Film
Well, we are off and running on our new Nile film project!
Our first assignment was to go and interview Dr Henry Lamb at Aberystwyth University in Wales. Lamb has been leading a project to look into lake levels in Lake Tana, Ethiopia. Lamb's team have shown how Lake Tana, the main source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia dried up 16,000 years. Other research has shown that Lake Victoria and Lake Albert, key sources of the White Nile dried up at the same time.
This period of drought was a result of the collapse of the North American ice sheets which warmed the North Atlantic and caused the monsoon rains to fail. The net result was that the Nile ran dry. Lamb's team have calculated from the core samples drilled in Lake Tana, that the river did not start to flow properly again for 1,300 years.
Now, with global warming again causing the Arctic ice sheets to melt, the prospects for dramatic climate change is again threatening the Nile Basin.
Here's one clip from the interview we shot yesterday.
Our first assignment was to go and interview Dr Henry Lamb at Aberystwyth University in Wales. Lamb has been leading a project to look into lake levels in Lake Tana, Ethiopia. Lamb's team have shown how Lake Tana, the main source of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia dried up 16,000 years. Other research has shown that Lake Victoria and Lake Albert, key sources of the White Nile dried up at the same time.
This period of drought was a result of the collapse of the North American ice sheets which warmed the North Atlantic and caused the monsoon rains to fail. The net result was that the Nile ran dry. Lamb's team have calculated from the core samples drilled in Lake Tana, that the river did not start to flow properly again for 1,300 years.
Now, with global warming again causing the Arctic ice sheets to melt, the prospects for dramatic climate change is again threatening the Nile Basin.
Here's one clip from the interview we shot yesterday.
Nile Film from Andy Johnstone on Vimeo.