Films about four women seem to be all the rage this season. From sisters in New York fashion to sisters trying to save the planet. Environmentalists seem to be lining up for the latter. Oxfam’s new movie release, Sisters on the Planet, recently premiered at Prince Charles Cinema on Leicester Place, just around the corner from where the Sex and the City premiere took place not long before. More than 200 people lined up for Sisters on the Planet, which consists of four short films about climate change.
The films are unique in their own right yet they manage to mesh four human stories of climate change and the struggle of the poor who constantly struggle to cope with increasingly extreme weather. The films also explain how women in poor and underdeveloped countries remain at the greatest risk. If there are still people out there who argue that the planet’s climate is changing, this film should lay that argument to rest.
Each short film depicts the lives and efforts of four women, followed by a Q&A session by Guardian journalist Lucy Siegle, Oxfam GB’s Chief Executive Barbara Stocking, and Melissa Davies Oliveck, one of the women featured in the film. Lucy Siegle told the audience that the films clearly demonstrate why “it’s absolutely necessary for us all to become engaged with climate change”.
For those who didn’t manage to make it to the film’s premiere, oxfam.org.uk/sisters has made available the film in which Sahena Begum from Bangladesh tells her story.
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