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. Evangelists in Brazil, where the message is clear: God has put people on earth to take care of His creation, so protecting the environment and biodiversity is a good Christian deed.
2. Business managers in the port city of Santos. Santos has South America's largest port, which is the largest source of income and employer in the municipality. The film reminds business leaders that a strong nature and environment is a good and sustainable business model.
3. School teachers who plant seeds with the next generations every day and thus shape their worldview.
4. Activists who are reminded that they are not alone in the fight for our common future.
Watch the campaign films here:
Rumo Ao Futuro
Imagine O Futuro
União
O Poder De Micélio
"My greatest hope is that tomorrow the world's rulers will set aside their differences and adopt a global all-encompassing climate law. "
What can you learn from each other through three weeks of film production when you come from opposite sides of the globe?
In this interview, you can read about what six students from Denmark and Brazil think about the challenges and opportunities of the future, and what a collaboration across the globe provides in terms of insight for climate change and climate action.
