In Future Council, eight children from various cultures tour Western Europe, discussing and exploring solutions to the world’s greatest environmental challenges. Source: Australian Catholics.
The children take a road trip through Western Europe in a vegetable-oil-powered school bus with the goal of better understanding climate change and to discuss various solutions to the problem.
The children are aware of the necessity to find understandable solutions, which could be further considered by influential companies responsible for large-scale pollution.
The film is written by Australian actor and filmmaker Damon Gameau and Jimmy James Wright.
The children on the trip resolve to form a Future Council (for children aged between 9 and 16), which can guide companies in the future about decisions they might make on climate change.
The film pointedly considers corporate responsibility and environmental activism as they relate to climate change seen from the special vantage point of young people.
The children are environmentally conscious, bright, perceptive and expressively vocal. On the road trip, they interact with political leaders who know that climate change is a global problem, but the children voice different views from polluters on how the problem might best be solved.
The film pays special tribute to the human spirit of the young, and asks viewers to imagine a brighter future for themselves and others.
Review by Peter W Sheehan, Jesuit Media
Future Council: Director Damon Gameau. Rated PG (Mild coarse language). 81 min.
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Future Council (Australian Catholics)
