Thanks a million for selecting The World’s 3 Wishes for a gold cup win! Your festival is top class.
I was thrilled to be part of it.
Let me explain why the movie exists.
Climate communication ranks 20th in all climate solutions currently deployed. 20th!
People know more about solar panels (which ranks first) than the crisis itself.
To help redress this, I've created something unique in climate communication.
The World’s 3 Wishes offers a brand new solution which would reverse the crisis if implemented.
I used to be a crime novelist, published in multiple languages. I would write characters into a corner which readers would see as impossible to get out of.
So I wrote them a way out.
Our planet is in a corner which seems impossible to get out of.
So I wrote it a way out.
I did this because if movies can be seen as offering brand new solutions (I'm not talking about
driving less, flying less or heating less or any of the things we already know about - which aren't working) then people will watch them. If I can write new solutions, so can other writers.
My movie never mentions the climate crisis on purpose. It’s allegorical, rather like Animal Farm is allegorical even though it’s about the Soviet Union, which it never mentions.
The film industry won't support climate crisis movies, unless they're post-apocalyptic.
Post-apocalyptic's no good. We need solutions which tell us how to prevent us from getting post-apocalyptic.
We need solutions which enable us to remain pre-apocalyptic.
So I created Silvergirl, probably the world's first climate superhero, with her own universe, her own
superpowers and her own alien background.
I wrote the script, the music, the lyrics, the songs and made the entire film myself without any previous experience or institutional funding. I hadn't a clue how to do it when I started last November. I made it in 5 months, at 95 minutes long.
You yourself may not be tuned into the climate crisis, but there are those who are, and my journey may prove of particular interest to them.
If writers can see that brand new solutions will gain traction, they will write them. That's my ambition.
Please have a look this example of using the entertainment world to help in the communication battle to spread greater awareness. We need to get it to shoot up from 20th place to 1st. That's why it's so important you're supporting this!
youtu.be/BX-8a_Nh0nk
