Progressive Film Hour - 09/23/14

Tuesday September 23, 3pm EDT :  This week's film is Disruption (http://vimeo.com/105412070), all about Climate Change, and is a countdown to the Climate March.   

Round Table guests are the filmmakers, Kelly Nyks & Jared P. Scott, plus Patrick Lovell and Adam Bronfman of Forward 13. 


Kelly Nyks is an award-winning writer and director of narrative and documentary films, Kelly has worked across Europe, Asia and America. He most recently directed and produced DISRUPTION - the story of the greatest crisis mankind has ever faced and the movement rising to fight it. He is a partner at PF Pictures.

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Jared P. Scott is an award-winning Filmmaker and Partner at PF Pictures. He most recently directed and produced DISRUPTION - the story of our unique moment in history - of crossing thresholds, of tipping points - as we're the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last that can do something about it. Weaving together the science, politics and the movement, the film also takes us behind-the-scenes of the lead-up to The People's Climate March - the largest climate rally in the history of the planet. He has produced & directed numerous philanthropic mini-docs for NGOs and advocacy groups in the Americas, Africa and Asia on issues from medical care to tsunami relief to climate adaptation. In broadcast television, Jared is a PROMAX award-nominated editor with hundreds of on-air promos to his credit. Jared is also a musician.

Patrick Lovell, who worked as a Senior Producer on the nationally syndicated television program, ‘Home Team', which lent a hand to aspiring first-time homeowners home ownership became his nightmare when the global financial market crashed in 2008, leaving him jobless and with a mortgage he could no longer afford. Armed with a camera, Lovell set out to discover why the American Dream failed him and millions of others in FORWARD 13: WAKING UP THE AMERICAN DREAM. 

Adam Bronfman, born in March 1963, is a businessman and philanthropist. Adam is the president of The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, and of the Adam R. Bronfman Family Foundation. Bronfman runs several businesses including Rickdiculous Racing, LLC, a motorcycle coaching service based in Tooele, Utah. Adam and his wife, Cindy, have four adult children and live in Park City, Utah. 

Through a relentless investigation of climate change, the film, Disruption takes an unflinching look at the devastating consequences of our both negative actions largely in energy production, and our overall inaction to date, in shifting more completely globally to a new, renewable energy paradigm, reviewing the cost to humanity, all species and the Earth Herself. 

The exploration lays bare the terrifying science, the shattered political process, the unrelenting industry special interests and the civic stasis that have brought us to this social, moral and ecological crossroads.The film also takes us behind-the-scenes of the efforts to organize the largest climate rally in the history of the planet during the UN world climate summit. 

This is the story of our unique moment in history. We are living through an age of tipping points and rapid social and planetary change. We're the first generation to feel the impacts of climate disruption, and the last generation that can do something about it. The film enlarges the issue beyond climate impacts and makes a compelling call for bold action that is strong enough to tip the balance to build a clean energy future. 

Join us in our new time slot on Progressive Radio Network, Tuesdays at 3pm EDT, featuring a film that is focused on Climate Change and the Countdown to today's landmark Climate March (see below).