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Synopsis

“2040” is an inspiring film about initiatives that exist to tackle planetary health issues and the technology already at our disposal that we can all use to make a difference. The film was released in 2019 and won the Planetary Health Film Prize that year.

Award-winning director Damon Gameau embarks on journey to explore what the future would look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shifted them into the mainstream.

The film is structured as a visual letter to his 4-year-old daughter, in which Damon blends traditional documentary footage with dramatised sequences and high-end visual effects to create a vision board for his daughter and the planet.

“2040 is an optimistic guide to the workable “regenerative” community projects that can help combat climate change” -The Guardian

Links

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Film trailer

The Guardian review of ‘2040’ 

Panel Discussion

Moderated by Associate Professor Toral Gathani, includes:

  • A video introduction from the film director, Damon Gameau
  • Alistair Brown, Editor in Chief, Lancet Planetary Health
  • Keren Papier, Senior Nutritional Epidemiologist, Oxford Population Health

 The Festival of Global Health is led by Toral Gathani and Louise Phillips.

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