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Mission Impact is a new youth series on the UN Sustainability Goals with launch date 2. April. There are documentary film producers Differ Media og Hacienda Film og Development and Environment Forum (ForUM) behind the series. We get to know when Penelope (14) discovers maritime litter, Victoria (19) discovers arms exports and Kim (27) discovers tax havens.
Penelope is an environmental agent and activist. She meets senior politicians face to face and demands a national plan of action (Norway is now the only country in the Nordic region left without.) Victoria travels to Greece, meets Yemen refugees and engages with Youtube and blog, and Jackass-inspired Kim makes political stunts.
You can see a short clip from the series here:
May stop climate change
"We are the first generation to have the opportunity to eradicate extreme poverty, but we are also the last generation to stop climate change before it is too late. It gives us an enormous responsibility, but also an enormous opportunity to create a better world ", says outgoing leader of ForUM Borghild Tønnessen-Krokan. Ny Tid meets her together with director Bår Tyrmi and producer Johanne Kristensen Sandvik two months before launch.
A transformative agenda. «The 17 sustainability goals includes everything from clean energy, decent work, responsible consumption and production, to less inequality and protection of underwater life. The targets may therefore appear a little diffuse.
But unlike some other development goals, the sustainability goals have a transformative agenda where everyone must change within 2030. In a way, it makes all countries into developing countries, including Norway, ”says Tønnessen-Krokan.
ForUM (see box case) has been working with the environment and development for 30 years. The network has 50 member organizations, which together have expertise in all the 17 sustainability goals. "The mission of Mission Impacter is to make sustainability goals relevant to everyone," says Tønnessen-Krokan.
“Greenhouse gas emissions are increasing, consumption is increasing, there is still little financial transparency and a large tax capital flight. War and conflict are waged with weapons produced in Western countries. These are investments that are destroying our soil, ”says Tønnessen-Krokan.
Engagement
At the same time, there is a strong commitment to create a sustainable future: “It is important that we manage to grab that commitment so that it does not disappear or become apathy. Victoria uses her own blog, Kim does stunts and Penelope works politically through organizations. These capabilities are hugely valuable. If we are to achieve the goals we all need to be on the team, and we must inspire a wide range of tools for engagement and political influence, ”says Sandvik.
"The commitment exists, and it is our task as filmmakers to convey it further," says Tyrmi. Both Differ Media and Hacienda Film have distinguished themselves by telling stories about important problems in our time. In 2014, Hacienda Film was a success reality show Sweatshop. It was watched by over 800 000 Norwegians and won the Gold Route 2015 as the first online TV series ever. In 2017, Differ Media stood behind the award-winning climate documentary Thank You For The Rain, produced by Julia Dahr.
"We have chosen to talk about the challenges, but at the same time focus on the solutions"
A series of action
"We have chosen to talk about the challenges, but at the same time focus on the solutions," says Sandvik. "Changing the way we talk about things, whether at the movies or at home around the dinner table, is one of the most important things we do with Mission Impact", Says Sandvik. "It has been quite liberating to create a series without political bias," adds Tyrmi, "for one thing that is certain is that we will not reach sustainability goals if we dig into party politics and ideology."
Mission Impact will be the first series in Norway to be released with social media as the main channel: "For us as filmmakers it gives a lot of freedom," says Sandvik. “Now the series has to live its own life. The big changes usually come from below and up, and in social media every individual has the power to set the agenda. ”
Development and Environment Forum (ForUM) was created in 1993 by organizations active in the international The joint campaign for the earth's environment and development. The campaign was mostly created around the UN report Our common future, which was popularly known as the Brundtland Commission Report on Sustainable Development.
The joint campaign quickly embraced most environmental and solidarity organizations in Norway, and worked actively towards the UN Environment Summit in 1992 (Rio Conference). ForUM today consists of around 50 Norwegian organizations , and still has a wide international network. They make reports, send consultation input to the Storting and attend UN conferences.
Source: forum.no/om-forum/forums-historie
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