‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ Producers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin Follow the Money in Climate Profiteering Doc ‘Sink or $wim’
variety.comChristopher Vourlias “Fahrenheit 11/9” producers and Academy Award nominees Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (“Trouble the Water”) are developing a documentary that explores the world of climate profiteering and how the planet’s wealthiest are planning to weather the uncertain century ahead.The duo will be pitching their project during CPH:FORUM, the international financing and co-production event held during the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX), which runs March 21-April 3.“Sink or $wim” is inspired by journalist McKenzie Funk’s bestseller “Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming,” which details how a growing legion of corporations, high-stakes gamblers and entrepreneurs are cashing in on the climate crisis. “We’ve all seen a lot of movies about climate change.
And there are a lot of movies that offer solutions,” Deal tells Variety. “We think it’s time to tell a new kind of climate story, to take an audience on a rollicking journey into a side of the story they may not know is happening – to follow the money into the dystopian future that is happening now.”He adds: “The climate is changing, we’re causing it, and some people are making a killing on it.”Currently in development, “Sink or $wim” will follow a colorful cast of climate prospectors, profiteers and their ultra-rich clientele, whose interrelated storylines will shed light on how the privileged few will survive and prosper at the expense of those without economic or political power, so long as the free market continues to dictate the world’s response to the global climate crisis.It’s far from a portrait of earnest green energy advocates installing solar panels or erecting windmills to wean the world off fossil fuels, says Lessin..
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