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Part of the Action4Climate series of videos.

Description of this one from EcoWatch

The inspiring and beautifully animated film The Violin Player took top spot in the 14 -17 age group in the Action4Climate video competition.

This video won the Action4Climate documentary competition. The $15,000 top prize, in the 18 – 35 age category, went to the Portuguese filmmaker Gonçalo Tocha for his film The Trail of a Tale.

It’s really good, less than 4:00 minutes, and worth your time.

Description of the film, from an article about the competition and the film from EcoWatch (link here):

Description of the video from EcoWatch:

If current trends continue, by 2050 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to the Action4Climate video competition film Rotterdam—The Transition to Urban Resilience. Filmmaker Lieke ‘t Gilde says it’s time to recognize the city as a natural ecosystem in order to meet human needs now and in the future. Gilde says that “nature-based and innovative solutions are essential for a sustainable future for cities all over the planet.”

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The Most Important Drop Of Water

Another short video in the Action4Climate series, this one entitled, "The Trail of a Tale," produced in Portugal. Description of the video from EcoWatch:

Portugal filmmaker Gonçalo Tocha, as part of the Action4Climate video competition, produced the inspiring short film The Trail of a Tale, which is a monologue of a letter from the future written to our recent past, telling us that the world, “It turned out right.”

The nearly four-minute video is captivating as the narrator tells us, the stranger, how things went right. Society gathered with a fundamental belief that the “purpose of the economic system is to improve the well-being for all within the limits of what the planet can sustain … We had to deal with overconsumption first. The prices we paid for things had to reflect the social and environmental costs…”

Deciding to be “more self sufficient and produce more locally” and realizing the “false consumer promise of buying happiness,” people in the new world had more time for themselves and their friends and family.

The film reminds the stranger of what life use to be like when “the world was divided by great wealth and extreme poverty … the global economy was falling apart … we were accelerating toward the cliff edge of catastrophic climate change.”