Hollywood Climate Summit, Jackson Wild Unveil Finalists For Expanded Nature & Climate Storytelling Awards

Hollywood Climate Summit and Jackson Wild have set finalists for their first joint awards ceremony Nov. 10 in Los Angeles spanning narrative film & TV from Train Dreams and Hacks, to unscripted and documentary This is a Gardening Show and Nuisance Bear. Selected from over 500 global submissions, finalists represent “the most impactful, innovative, and inspiring storytelling,” the groups said. Projects span the past two years. The joint awards will likely run every other year to ensure sufficient environmental narrative content. HCS is the host of an increasingly popular annual summit in LA and provides a year-round community connecting entertainment professionals with climate experts. Jackson Wild, based in Jackson, Wyoming, has been a global leader in nature and conservation media for over 30 years and hosted its own annual awards. The organizations joined forces on the awards earlier this year, expanding Jackson Wild’s mostly documentary and social content to narrative features and television, podcasts, games, digital media and comedy. Watch on Deadline “In this time of increasing environmental urgency, we must amplify and support the creatives finding new depths in climate and nature storytelling, and expand our thinking as an industry on what that storytelling can look like. This partnership expands that genre-bending creative spectrum, connects the communities making it happen, and puts a shared vision of a better world at the center,” said Heather Fipps, Executive Director of Hollywood Climate Summit. “This year’s finalists invite audiences into the natural world through film, games, podcasts, and so much more, each one a testament to the extraordinary quality of storytelling happening right now,” said Christie Quinn, Executive Director of Jackson Wild. “Reaching people across genres and formats has never been more vital to the future of our planet, and celebrating the best of today’s storytelling is how we inspire what comes next.” Finalists NARRATIVE FEATURE Bugonia —Element Pictures / Square Peg / CJ Enm Production in association with Pith and Fruit Tree Enterprises, Focus Features Remarkably Bright Creatures — Night Owl Stories, Netflix The Wild Robot — DreamWorks Animation, Universal Pictures Train Dreams — Black Bear Pictures, Kamala Films, Netflix Twisters — Amblin Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures NARRATIVE SHORT Heat Me — ABCinema, in co-production with Orama Productions. MotherEarth Inc. — Co-directed by Heather Mingo and Isabel Siragusa Two Breaths — A film by Kateryna Kurganska Wowsabout — The Jim Henson Company, in association with PBS TV SERIES – SCRIPTED DRAMA Families Like Ours — Netflix (Denmark) Lead Children — Netflix (Poland) Radioactive Emergency — Netflix The Last of Us — HBO Max TV SERIES – SCRIPTED COMEDY Four Seasons — Universal Television, Netflix Hacks — Universal Television in association with Paulilu, First Thought Productions, Fremulon Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment North of North — Netflix Rage — Producciones Mandarina for HBO Max TV SERIES – UNSCRIPTED Building Outside the Lines — Painless TV, Magnolia Network Réabhlóid Ar Chul An Tí / F* the Lawn— New Decade Films, Pier to Pier Media, SEETREE GmbH The Wild Ones — Offspring Films, AppleTV+ This is a Gardening Show — Radical Media, Netflix VIDEO GAME Flock Around — Secret Plan Games The Guardian of Nature — Inlusio Interactive Planet Pigeon — Cracked Cubes and Thirteen Productions LLC, Minecraft EDU Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) — Unreliable Narrators COMEDY SPECIAL Climate Science Translated — Houseband, Beyond The Deck, Utopia Bureau, Climate Science Breakthrough Funeral for a Glacier — Day Two Productions, Green Olive Creative Green Goddesses Take New York — UnchainedTV, CaveLight Films Slick Burn — Petty Victories DIGITAL SERIES Climate Town — Climate Town Productions Do You Even Care? — Yellow Dot Studios Slick — Carmack Productions Study Hall Sustainability — Complexly, Arizona State University The Firepit — United By Nature (powered by Nature Is Nonpartisan), Shelton Films PODCAST The Climate Denier’s Playbook — 400 Parts Per Million LLC Sabotage — Good Luck Media, Yellow Dot Studios The Last City — Wondery Threshold — Aurice Productions JACKSON WILD FINALISTS BY CATEGORY FEATURE Checkpoint Zoo — Ghost Robot, Appian Way, Noah Media Group, After Hours, Abramorama Derek vs Derek — The Slate Works and Damer Films Nuisance Bear — MUBI, A24 We, The Hated — A Firebreak Films production in association with Passion Planet, BFI/Doc Society, Bertha Foundation, Distributed by Propagate LIMITED SERIES Animal Oddballs — National Geographic, Wildstar Films, and Maximum Effort Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — BBC Studios in association with Apple Secrets of the Bees — National Geographic and Silverback Films Wild Side of the Moon — Produced by Humble Bee Films for Sky and Love Nature DOCUMENTARY SHORT Between Breaths — A Film by Florian Ledoux and Jozef Kaut Chuuraa — A film by Evgenia Arbugaeva. Supported by National Geographic Society. Plant Life — Speculative Films, Tangled Bank Studios, Catapult Film Fund, Berkeley Film Foundation SILA — National Geographic Society, TENT Film Wild East — Maia Wikler Productions, Sideyard Studios INVESTIGATIVE Rhapsody on the Outlaw Ocean — A Film by Ian Urbina and William Segal Sentient — In Films Pty Ltd, Dogwoof, Madman Entertainment The Last Place on Earth — Oceanic Preservation Society PEOPLE & NATURE Bucks Harbor — Two Wolves Films, National Geographic Society The Tale of Silyan — National Geographic Documentary Films, Ciconia Film, Concordia Studio, The Corner Shop To Hold a Mountain — Directed by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić, Produced by Biljana Tutorov for Wake Up Films, In association with Points North Institute, Catapult Film Fund, Chicken & Egg Films. With the support of InMaat, IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund, Doc Society, Meadow Fund, Secret Sauce Media, Eurimages, Film Centre of Montenegro, Film Center Serbia, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, CNC, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur région, Slovenian Film Centre, Viba Film, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, UNIQA SEE Future Foundation PLANET IN CRISIS The Caldera — ITVS, Independent Lens, Grasso Films The Plastic Detox — The Production credits should be: A Netflix Documentary | An OPS Productions, An L&T Productions, With Minderoo Pictures and Concordia Studio, In association with City Hill Arts, Bay Bridge Productions and Diamond Docs Time and Water — National Geographic Documentary Films, Sandbox, Signpost Pictures, Ninmah Foundation, Compass Films We, The Hated — A Firebreak Films production in association with Passion Planet, BFI/Doc Society, Bertha Foundation. Distributed by Propagate CINEMATOGRAPHY A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough — A Netflix Documentary | A Silverback Films ProductionCinematographers: Ben Cherry, Ewan Dryburgh, Benjamin Sadd and Toby Strong Animal Oddballs: Daringly Different — National Geographic, Wildstar Films, and Maximum EffortCinematographers: Chris Watts, Simon De Glanville, Jeff Hester, Tom Rowland, Christian Marot, Andrew Studer, Olly Jelley, Hayes Baxley, Connor Gallagher Muskox: Survival in the Arctic — Stay Wild Studio, Distributed by Off the FenceCinematographer: Chris Schmid Secrets of the Bees: The Hive — National Geographic and Silverback FilmsCinematographers: John Brown, Alastair MacEwen