THE YOUTH CLIMATE REPORT by Mark Terry | Canada, World (2024)
The Youth Climate Report is the first “Geo-Doc”, a new form of documentary film. It is a multilinear, interactive database documentary film project presented on a platform of a Geographic Information System map of the world incorporating more than 1,000 climate stories told by the global community of youth.
Director Statement
The Youth Climate Report was designed with the international policymakers of the United Nations to amplify the voice of youth and give them a direct opportunity to contribute to the global environmental policy creation process.
Bio
Mark Terry is an ecocinema filmmaker who focuses his lens on documentary films about climate change in the polar regions. His polar trilogy: The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning, The Polar Explorer, and The Changing Face of Iceland were all made following expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. Each film premiered at the United Nations annual climate summits where they were used as resources of visible evidence for the policymakers.
For this high-impact documentary work, he has been decorated by Queen Elizabeth II with her Diamond Jubilee Medal and by the Explorers Club with their Stefansson Medal. He was also recognized by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television with their seldom-presented Humanitarian Award. In 2019, He successfully defended his dissertation on a remediated form of the documentary film earning his PhD. One year later he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada, the country’s highest academy. He now teaches film at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo and York University in Toronto, both in Canada. The Youth Climate Report is Dr. Terry’s experimental “Geo-Doc”, a new, multilinear form of database documentary incorporating more than 1,000 climate stories told by the global community of youth in a single digital space.
Director, writer, producer: Mark Terry Music: open source
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
