Al
Gore announces Sundance debut for follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth
Former
vice-president and climate change activist announces spiritual
successor to his Oscar-winning documentary, set to debut at film
festival’s new section
Guardian film
Saturday 10 December
2016 01.51 GMT
A follow-up to An
Inconvenient Truth, the Oscar-winning documentary about climate
change, will be among the opening night films at the forthcoming
Sundance film festival.
Like its
predecessor, the film will follow Al Gore as the former
vice-president continues to make his case around the world that the
world most wake up to the imminent threat of climate change.
“Now more than
ever we must rededicate ourselves to solving the climate crisis. But
we have reason to be hopeful; the solutions to the crisis are at
hand,” Gore said in a statement released on Friday.
Rumors of a
follow-up film have circulated since 2014, but on Friday it was
confirmed that the film will be part of the festival’s The New
Climate section, which features films that all have the climate or
the environment at their core. The spiritual sequel comes 10 years
after the original film debuted at Sundance and went on to win two
Oscars, including best documentary.
It’s expected the
film will be released in 2017 by Paramount. The company’s CEO Brad
Grey said: “Al’s tireless efforts to bring about change continues
to inspire all of us as we fight for the health of our world for
future generations.”
Gore recently met
with president-elect Donald Trump for a series of meetings, after
which the former vice-president said he was hopeful that Trump, who
has falsely claimed climate change was a Chinese hoax, would reverse
his position.
“My message would
be that despair is just another form of denial,” he said after the
meeting. “There is no time to despair. We don’t have time to lick
our wounds, to hope for a different election outcome.”
Gore also fronts the
Climate Reality Project advocacy group, which recently hosted its
sixth annual 24 Hours of Reality, a 24-hour live event which focused
on he 24 largest national emitters of carbon dioxide in the world.
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