EXCLUSIVE: Counterpoints Arts, the UK-based group behind occasions like Refugee Week and Platforma pageant, has teamed with advocacy group Local weather Spring to launch a growth fund for function movies and TV initiatives that discover how local weather change drives displacement and migration.
The fund will present early-stage growth money for manufacturing firms and creators, with a selected curiosity in partnerships between skilled producers and writing expertise from traditionally marginalised backgrounds. The 2 firms have mentioned the goal is to help tales that transcend testimonial narratives, presenting displaced and migrant folks with company and shifting the narrative away from victimhood and passive illustration.
The fund will prioritise scripted, genre-based storytelling, from romantic comedies to science fiction, thrillers, comedy, and fantasy. The fund may even help initiatives that discover the lived expertise of second-generation people, corresponding to the youngsters of refugees or migrants.
“Individuals who convey lived expertise of displacement to the desk don’t solely have ‘heart-breaking’ tales to inform,” Ornella Mutoni of Counterpoints Arts mentioned in a press release. “With this in thoughts, we wish to help the event of a spectrum of tales on the intersection of refugee and migrant experiences and local weather, reflecting the total complexities of recent life.”
Examples of pitches invited for the fund embrace tales that discover how environmental modifications are reshaping borders, communities, and futures, or tales that join geopolitical battle, useful resource extraction, and human motion.
Josh Cockcroft, Director of Impression and Analysis at Local weather Spring, added: “The local weather disaster is a narrative of human motion, resilience, and transformation. We’re excited to help initiatives that reject stereotypes and as a substitute elevate migrant views with daring, genre-driven narratives – tales which are humorous, thrilling, romantic or speculative, however at all times rooted in fact and company.”
Counterpoints Arts is the UK-based organisation behind Refugee Week, PopChange, and Platforma pageant. Local weather Spring is a worldwide organisation centered on altering how the local weather disaster is represented in movie, TV, mainstream leisure, and wider fashionable tradition. The corporate provides early-stage growth funding for scripted and unscripted content material; editorial consulting on the local weather parts of movie and TV initiatives for writers, commissioners, and producers; coaching and writers’ growth alternatives; and help in shifting a venture from concept to distribution. Local weather Spring is presently funding and co-financing growth, supporting and consulting on over 50 movie and TV initiatives.
