Welcome to Animated Engagement - Track 2
Animated Documentaries
In September 2024, 18 students from The Animation Workshop went to Brazil to create films with 20 Brazilian film students. Through three weeks of insightful visits and intense collaboration, the students have produced documentaries and campaign films with a focus on climate change and climate action.
Voices from the Mangrove: Young Brazilians and Danes present new illustrated climate documentary
The Animated Engagement project shows how creative collaboration across continents can strengthen the fight against climate change. Over three weeks of intense co-creation, young Brazilians and Danes explored new intercultural climate narratives. With the illustrated documentary Voices from the Mangrove, young people weave art, activism and hope together into a powerful and relevant film narrative.
In the film, we meet four Brazilian activists whose climate struggle impacts the international climate scene. With roots in marginalized communities, they share powerful first-hand accounts and demonstrate an unwavering dedication to their cause. The documentary is one of the results coming out of of the project Animated Engagement, which in September 2024 brought together 18 Danish students in animation and drawing from The Animation Workshop and Visual HF in Viborg with 20 Brazilian film students from the film school Instituto Querô in Santos (Brazil).
The film will premiere in Denmark at VAF 2025.
Image gallery: portraits and concept art
Creative and cross-cultural climate campaign: Young filmmakers from Brazil and Denmark focus on the planet's biodiversity
How do you talk about biodiversity and climate so that you reach those who can actually make an active difference?
This is the question that young filmmakers from Brazil and Denmark have asked themselves in the project Animated Engagement. The answer has been four powerful campaign films, created in collaboration with the Brazilian civil society organization Procomum. The films are aimed at four very different target groups — but what they all have in common is that they all have a strong platform and thus the opportunity to change both actions and attitudes:
1. Evangelister i Brasilien, hvor budskabet er klart: Gud har sat mennesker på jorden til at passe på hans skaberværk, så at beskytte miljø og biodiversitet er en god kristen gerning.
2. Virksomhedsledere i havnebyen Santos. Santos har Sydamerikas største havn, som er den største indtægtskilde og arbejdsgiver i kommunen. Filmen minder virksomhedslederne om at en stærk natur og miljø er en god og bæredygtig forretningsmodel.
3. Skolelærere, som hver dag planter frø hos de næste generationer og dermed præger deres verdenssyn.
4. Aktivister, der bliver mindet om, at de ikke står alene i kampen for vores fælles fremtid.
Se kampagnefilmene her:
Evangelico
Imagine O Futuro
Emprisarius
Aktivista
"Mit største håb er, at verdens magthavere i morgen vil tilsidesætte deres forskelle og vedtage en global altomfattende klimalov. "
Hvad lærer man af hinanden gennem tre ugers filmproduktion, når man kommer fra hver sin side af kloden?
I dette interview kan du læse om, hvad seks studerende fra Danmark og Brasilien tænker om fremtidens udfordringer og muligheder, og hvad et samarbejde på tværs af kloden giver af indsigt for klimaforandringer og klimahandling.
