Global audio network Squeak E. Clean Studios Creative Director Simon Lister has teamed up with the United Nations to launch the intergovernmental organization’s 75th Anniversary film. Written and directed by Lister, and edited by Andrew Holmes, the film spotlights priority global concerns uncovered by the world’s largest survey on the public opinion of climate change, which the UN launched in January 2020. Squeak E. Clean Studios also crafted the music and sound mix on the film.
Juxtaposed against photos and footage of the trials populations faced in 2020--globe-spanning fires, the coronavirus pandemic, riots, warfare, and more--the powerful film leads with the UN’s original survey question: “If you could choose one thing to say to the UN, to world leaders, about the future, what would that be?” Within boardrooms, classrooms and congressional halls, the film showcases a diverse range of audiences’ top answers and challenges, from fighting climate change and increasing global sanitation to decreasing conflict and violence, and many others, escalating into a crescendo of optimism and hope for society’s future worldwide.
Says Lister, “The great thing about this project is we could obtain content from those who go to the most polarised regions of the world to take these incredible photographs and footage. It was a humbling experience for us to find and feature the work of a whole community of international storytellers. Collaborating with these amazing artists to tell a global story, we hope the film elicits and provokes the urgent attention of our world leaders.
“Teaming up on this important project with film editor Andrew Holmes, my amazing composer Jessie Watt and producer Emma Hodge of Squeak E. Clean Studios, meant that we could put our creative skills to good use collaborating on a project with the potential to inspire meaningful change and hope for a better future.”
Credits:
UN75 Production Credit List
Creative Director: Simon Lister @scilsta
Editor: Andrew Holmes @andreweditor
Executive Producer: Emma Hodge @ Squeak E. Clean Studios
Music: Jesse Watt @ Squeak E. Clean Studios
Sound Mix: Simon Lister @ Squeak E. Clean Studios
Grade: Olivier Fontenay’s - Heckler HQ
Translation: Ethno Link
Voice Over: Angela Mahletjie - Moore Creative Partners
Photographs & Video Credit’s
Felipe Dana @felipedana
Michael Christopher Brown @michaelchristopherbrown
Andrew Guilty @andrewquilty
David Lazar @davidlazarphoto
Fabio Buccareli @fabiobuccareli
Mudslide Jan Egil Bakkeby via ViralHog
Ringo Chui @ringochui
Martine Perrett @martineperrett
Jimmy Nelson @jimmynelson
GMB Akash @gmbakash
Matthew Abbott @mattabbottphoto
NSW Fire & Rescue
Patrick Brown @patrickbrownphoto
Hayley Sadler @haileycsadler
Nikki Denholm @nikkidenholm
Ami Vatale @amivitale
Untitled Films @untitledfilmworks
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Film Supply
Amber Mountain Studios
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Simon Lister @scilsta
Tim Georgeson @timgeorgeson
The United Nations was founded in 1945 as the successor organization to the League of Nations in order to promote international cooperation and avoid conflicts after the Second World War. More than 190 states belong to it.
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