YOUTH V GOV - Urbanworld

Youth v Gov

Best Environmental  YOUTH V GOV

Directed by Christi Cooper

Summary

YOUTH v GOV is the story of America’s youth taking on the world’s most powerful government. Armed with a wealth of evidence, twenty-one courageous leaders file a ground-breaking lawsuit against the U.S. government, asserting it has willfully acted over six decades to create the climate crisis, thus endangering their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property. If these young people are successful, they will not only make history, they will change the future.

 

Director Bio

Christi Cooper is a scientist, documentary filmmaker, and Emmy-award winning cinematographer. Christi communicates complex issues through storytelling and visual narrative to create impact around the most pressing issues of our time. She is the inaugural SFFILM/Vulcan Productions Environmental Film Fellow, the first Focus on Nature Artist-in-Resident at the Jacob Burns Film Center, and was recently awarded The ReelWomenDirect Award for Excellence in Directing.

Details

Year: 2020
Runtime: 110:00
Country: United States
Note: Press Contact/Sales Agent: Christi Cooper, Barrelmaker Productions, christi@barrelmakerproductions.com



 




Director: Christi Cooper
Screenwriter: Christi Cooper, Lyman Smith
Producer: Olivia Ahnemann, Christi Cooper
Executive Producer: Jody Allen, Rocky Collins, Ruth Johnston, Jannat Gargi, Linda A. Cornfield, David J. Cornfield, Heather Smith, Tiffany Schauer
Co-Producer: Liz Smith, Dennis Aig
Cast: Lead Attorney: Julia Olson; Attorney: Phillip Gregory; Plaintiffs: Kelsey Juliana, Vic Barrett, Jayden Foytlin, Levi Draheim, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Jacob Lebel
Cinematographer: Christi Cooper, Korey Kaczmarek, Danny Schmidt, Emily Fraser, Stephani Gordon, Andy Adkins
Editor: Lyman Smith, Tony Hale
Animator: Ben Radatz
Composer: John Jennings Boyd
Sound Design: Matthew Polis
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