Planetary Health Film Lab 2023 – Belize Edition
This year, the Planetary Health Film Lab worked with Indigenous youth from the Maya communities in Belize. The following six films were made in the native Maya languages of Q’eqchi’ and/or Mopan with English subtitles. The films have been added to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Youth Climate Report GIS database and will premiere at the UN’s climate summit, COP28, in Dubai in December of this year.
View the compliation video below.
Program Overview
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the program, participants will have learned:
- how documentary film is used as an influential communications tool to inform UN policymakers and for environmental activism;
- how to produce digital media projects and GIS maps;
- the value and process of collaborative filmmaking;
- how to conduct professional interviews with researchers and practitioners;
- how to deliver oral presentations; and
- how planetary health research can influence policy and practice
Stories
Participants create short documentary films about planetary health and the impacts of climate change on human health and wellbeing in their communities. General themes are planetary health, global health and humanitarianism, global health foresighting, and the Sustainable Development Goals. The films may tell a narrative and/or communicate research that touches on any of the following:
- the relationship between environmental and human health
- specific issues created or exacerbated by climate change, such as water safety, displacement, conflict, food shortages, changing patterns of infectious diseases, floods, and droughts
- how the humanitarian sector is responding to climate change;
- innovative or creative solutions to climate change
- innovative or creative health adaptations to climate change impacts;
- visions for a healthier future and how to get there
- how the participants’ communities are pursuing one or more of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals