Today I will explain how climate storytelling is being embedded into TV and theatre thanks to the work of a well-funded “global organisation” called Climate Spring, whose partners include ITV, Channel 4 and The Cannes Film Festival.
This is in addition to the Government’s own efforts to embed messaging on the climate (and otherwise) into soap operas and entertainment shows, as exposed last year by Lewis Brackpool. We are being targeted from every angle!
Climate Spring – whose funders are mostly private (more on them later) but also receives funding from the Wellcome Trust, which received £105,998,100 from taxpayers between 2020-24 – says it “champions the power of storytelling to transform our cultural response to the climate crisis” and works “with the screen industries to tell compelling stories that resonate, inspire and reach global audiences.”
Its full list of partners are:
Quay Street Productions
Hat Trick
TOD Productions
Yellow Dot Studios
Last Conker
Mammoth Screen
All3Media
ITV
Channel 4
Film London
BFI (British Film Institute)
Festival de Cannes
Women in Film & Television (WFTV)
Pulse Films
Objective Media Group
Brooklyn
Climate Spring works on everything from script development to “editorial consulting on the climate elements of film and TV content” to “world-building workshops”:
What does this look like in practice?
