“This is very much targeted at the young people around the world being affected by climate change, bringing their voice into those climate negotiations and telling it in a way that brings the impacts of climate change around the world to life,” adds Butfield.
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“And the challenge with this series is to reach a very different audience to what would normally reach with the Earthshot production.” “One of the things that’s been really clear is that lots of people around the world, particularly those most affected by climate change, are the people that have the least voice at those kinds of big global events,” says Butfield. Studio Silverback, in collaboration with WWF and Brian Leith Productions, is also producing short-form films to be shown at Saturday’s Climate Ambition Summit, which kickstarts nations’ commitments on climate change ahead of the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference (COP26) at Glasgow next year.Īnother ambitious project for the new outfit is a 12-part series, with the Climate Change Conference as a backdrop, for an online partner who’s still under wraps for now. The relationship forged at Davos has spun off into one of Studio Silverback’s first commissions: a five-part BBC series leading up to The Earthshot Prize, a global award designed to incentivize change and help repair the planet over the next 10 years, launched by The Royal Foundation of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. “And we as filmmakers find that impossible to arrange.” “That made it a really big impact moment to bring environmental issues to some of the most important people in the world,” Scholey tells Variety. Butfield was instrumental in the Silverback team and Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, getting invited to Davos for the World Economic Forum 2019, where the Prince interviewed Sir David Attenborough. Scholey adds that Butfield’s WWF bona fides have the capacity to open all sorts of doors, and not only in the environmental space.
“The blend of the four of us together means we can cover off all the main areas we’d want to influence if we’re to achieve the mission, to tell this story to as many people as possible,” Butfield tells Variety.
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