Manipulating Kids in Bulk Lots (part II)
POSTED ON 30 MAY 24
BY TONY THOMASIN UNCATEGORIZED
Nice people saving the planet from fossil fuels’ Armageddon seem happy to use kids aged 11 to 16 as shock troops. Case in point: celebrated actor-turned-producer Damon Gameau has a new film launching in Melbourne in August called Future Council(originally, “Future Field Trip”). It stars eight kids, “courageous and inspiring … already making waves to change the world for the better.”
Manipulating kids — Part One
Ambitious parents bashed Gameau’s door down to get their kid cast — I read somewhere that 600-700 applied. He took the kids on a road trip across Europe, and writes[1]
They travel in a biofueled “Bumble Bus”, seeking solutions to the [non-existent] climate crisis and, along the way, meet with some of the world’s largest companies to ask the big, hard-hitting questions.
This inspiring and rollicking journey, where ‘School of Rock’ meets ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, results in the children forming a ‘Future Council’ to advise and influence the world’s most powerful companies on their decisions that impact nature. We can’t wait to share the film with you and your class!
Gameau’s movies are always fun. In Future Councilhis movie kids confront the Dr Evils of the fossil-fuel business in their boardroom lairs, “standing up to the people who stand in the way!” His film moreover has “a rocking soundtrack and spectacular visual effects”. I can imagine a highlight:
https://cliscep.com/2024/05/30/manipulating-kids-in-bulk-lots-part-ii/
