A documentary film to inspire a unified movement for peace and climate justice.
A feature documentary, in production
Directed by award-winning filmmaker, Kasha Sequoia Slavner, 1.5 Degrees of Peace is a character-driven feature documentary, following four young activists in regions impacted by the interconnected forces driving climate change: militarization, conflicts, and systemic violence. The film spotlights their pursuit of justice, rooted in the revolutionary love, community, and radical imagination needed to heal the systems which threaten humanity and the planet’s survival.”
This intimate portrayal of young people documents their journeys to address the most urgent existential crises of our times, and calls attention to how we can break down silos to unify movements for peace, climate justice, and collective liberation.
Peace and climate justice are more connected than we realize.
We’re on a mission to show how.
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Many films focus narrowly on the climate crisis, or conflicts, or militarization separately. However, 1.5 Degrees of Peace’s approach is to showcase the intricate links between these issues.
Peace is not just the absence of war; creating peace, also looks like having respect for our planet, and protecting it.
We can’t solve the climate crisis in an equitable way, without framing our solutions through a lens of reducing potential conflict and addressing the impact of militarization.
By elevating the stories of youth around the world at the forefront of leading sustainable solutions, we can highlight what is possible when we invest in climate justice over extraction, when we invest in peace, over war, and when we invest in our planet over profit.