Bloomberg Green Docs | Enter Your Short Climate Film

Will N. Miller

Producer, The Territory & Co-founder, Documist

Will N. Miller is a documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Documist, a production company based in NYC and Toronto. His work mostly focuses on environmental conflict, migration, and human rights. Will produced The Territory, which won over 30 awards including two at Sundance 2022, and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. He edited and produced Nuisance Bear, which won over 25 awards including the Critics Choice Award and Cinema Eye Honors, was nominated for IDA and Canadian Screen Awards, and was shortlisted for the Academy Awards. He edited and story produced Unsafe Passage, which won an Emmy, NPPA Documentary of the Year, POYi Documentary Journalism Award, and others.

Will's work has been published by the New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, the Economist, the New Yorker, CNN, NBC, and the BBC. From 2017-2019 he worked at Human Rights Watch, where he produced over 100 videos reaching millions of viewers online and broadcast by dozens of news outlets around the world. Will has also worked on a range of participatory multimedia projects in the US, Canada, Kenya, Haiti, the Philippines, and Brazil; from art projects for kids, to evidentiary techniques for human rights defenders, to masterclasses for aspiring cinematographers.

Aaron Rutkoff

Executive Editor, Bloomberg Green

Aaron Rutkoff is the executive editor of Bloomberg Green, a digital editorial brand and biannual print magazine focused on climate news, features, analysis and solutions. He is an executive editor at Bloomberg News, overseeing climate coverage and managing a team of reporters and editors in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Since joining Bloomberg in 2013, he has been an editor at Bloomberg Businessweek and a deputy managing editor for digital news. He was founding editor in 2018 of Bloomberg Hyperdrive, a vertical focused on the future of transportation. He has covered topics ranging from the gun industry to electric vehicles, and projects he has led have been recognized with a Gerald Loeb Award in 2019 and National Magazine Award in 2016. He started his career at the Wall Street Journal.

Aaron is a graduate of Wesleyan University and lives in Brooklyn with his son and partner.

Jill Tidman

Executive Director, The Redford Center

Jill Tidman (she/her) is Executive Director of The Redford Center, an independent nonprofit organization founded in 2005 by Robert Redford and his son James Redford. Jill has worked with the organization since its founding and took the helm in 2012 to lead the vision, strategy, and operations in service of advancing environmental solutions through the power of stories that move people to act. She has produced three award-winning feature documentaries and impact campaigns, and draws on her experience as a writer, filmmaker, and activist, and her passion for sustainability and environmental justice, to create a new way forward for impactful environmental films. With over 25 years of experience as an activist and storyteller, Jill has raised millions of dollars for environmentally engaged artists and film projects that serve as powerful education, communication, and activation tools. Prior to The Redford Center, Jill led projects for Business for Social Responsibility, Social Venture Network, The Natural Step, and Global Footprint Network, and she serves on the board of the KindHumans Foundations. Jill was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her short fiction and resides with her family on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone tribe in the San Francisco Bay Area.

dream hampton

Filmmaker

dream hampton is an award-winning filmmaker and writer from Detroit. For three decades her essays and cultural criticism helped shape a generation. Her most recent works include the award winning short film “Freshwater” (NYT OpDocs/PBS, 2023) and “Ladies First” (Netflix, 2023). Selected works include “Treasure“ (Frameline, 2015), “Finding Justice” (BET, 2019), “It’s A Hard Truth Ain’t It” (HBO, 2019) and the Emmy nominated "Surviving R. Kelly" (Netflix, 2019), which broke ratings records and earned her a Peabody Award. In 2019, hampton was named one of TIME 100's most influential people in the world.

Eva Orner

Filmmaker

Eva Orner is an Australian, Academy and 2-time Emmy Award winning filmmaker based in Los Angeles.

Eva’s latest film BURNING, for Amazon Studios, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September 2021. It will be released globally in November 2021. BURNING is about the devastating fires that shook Australia in 2019/2020 told through the lens of climate change.
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Eva directed and produced the Netflix Original BIKRAM: Yogi, Guru, Predator which premiered at TIFF 2019.

Eva’s directing credits also include AACTA (Australian Academy Awards) award winning Chasing Asylum, which tackles Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers, Emmy award winning Out of Iraq which follows a gay Iraqi couple over a decade as they try to stay alive and together and seek asylum in the US and The Network, acquired by Netflix, set behind the scenes at the largest and most successful television network in Afghanistan. Eva is also currently in production on a 3-part series for Discovery Plus that she is directing and executive producing.
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Eva’s producing credits include the feature documentaries Taxi to The Dark Side for which she won an Academy and Emmy award, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson which premiered in competition at Sundance 2007, The Human Behavior Experiments for Sundance, and Herbie Hancock’s Possibilities for Magnolia.

Aaron Rutkoff

Executive Editor, Bloomberg Green

Aaron Rutkoff is the executive editor of Bloomberg Green, a digital editorial brand and quarterly print magazine focused on climate news, features, analysis and solutions. He is an executive editor at Bloomberg News, overseeing climate coverage and managing a team of reporters and editors in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Since joining Bloomberg in 2013, he has been an editor at Bloomberg Businessweek and a deputy managing editor for digital news. He was founding editor in 2018 of Bloomberg Hyperdrive, a vertical focused on the future of transportation. He has covered topics ranging from the gun industry to electric vehicles, and projects he has led have been recognized with a Gerald Loeb Award in 2019 and National Magazine Award in 2016. He started his career at the Wall Street Journal.

Aaron is a graduate of Wesleyan University and lives in Brooklyn with his son and partner.

Jill Tidman

Executive Director, The Redford Center

Jill Tidman is Executive Director of The Redford Center, an independent nonprofit organization that advances environmental solutions through the power of stories that move. Since 2012, Jill has led the organization’s vision, strategy, and operations, including the production of three feature films and impact campaigns in partnership with Redford Center co-founder, James Redford. Jill draws on her experience as a writer, filmmaker, and activist, as well as her passion for sustainability and environmental justice, to create a new way forward for impactful storytelling by frontline communities. Prior to The Redford Center, Jill consulted and led projects for Business for Social Responsibility, the Social Venture Network, the Natural Step, and the Ecological Design Network, and she serves on the board of the KindHumans Foundations. Jill was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2011 for her short fiction. She lives in San Francisco with her husband Wil and her two children.

Lindsay Firestone

Film & Special Content Projects Lead, Bloomberg Philanthropies

Lindsay Firestone manages film and special content projects for Bloomberg Philanthropies, leading film grants, co-productions and entertainment partnerships aligned with the foundation’s core focus areas. Additionally, she serves as a consultant with Bloomberg Associates where she works with cities to engage their local creative industries to enhance equitable economic development and workforce opportunities.

Firestone helped incubate Good Energy, a nonprofit creative consultancy working to inspire, support, and accelerate entertaining climate stories in scripted television and film (so the content reflects the world we live in now) and currently serves on the organization’s board. She has served as an advisor to a growing portfolio of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ supported films, as well as co-produced the 2017 feature From the Ashes which explores opportunities in renewable energy and just transition efforts, and the 2018 feature Paris to Pittsburgh which examines what climate leadership really means. Both films are available on Disney +. A Tampa, Florida native, she lives in New York.

Anna Jane Joyner

Founder and Director
Good Energy

Anna Jane Joyner has 15 years of experience in climate communications and is passionate about crafting stories and strategies that inspire new and non-traditional audiences to take action on climate.

An enthusiast for audience analysis, compelling creative, and storytelling, Anna Jane has inspired evangelicals, Catholics, progressive faith communities, millennial ex-evangelicals, yogis, musicians, rural communities in the Deep South, NASCAR fans, and most recently, Hollywood writers and producers, to act on climate.
Her work has been featured by Rolling Stone, Grist, Glamour, MTV, The Associated Press, The New York Times, and more. Anna Jane's efforts to engage evangelicals on climate - including her own father (a prominent pastor) - was featured in Years of Living Dangerously, an Emmy-award winning Showtime documentary series. She has organized key audiences to take action on everything from moving Beyond Coal, ending mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia, water pollution, federal climate policy, voting rights, GOTV, protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and more.
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These days, she's also the founder and director of Good Energy - an initiative that supports screenwriters to tell climate stories in scripted television and film.

Contest

What is the compelling story you most want to tell?

The Bloomberg Green Docs competition is open to all eligible filmmakers who would like to compete to win a $25,000 grand prize for a short climate documentary.

We want to explore our climate future with documentaries that reveal the world we are making today. Ecosystems are being restored and tomorrow’s zero-carbon communities are being formed. At the same time, extremes in our habitats warn of cascading climate consequences.

Call for Entries

Films addressing the urgency of climate change
Under 10 minutes, including credits
Submissions accepted through April 26, 2024
Jury will award a $25,000 grand prize
Winner will be announced at the Bloomberg Green Docs Film Festival in Seattle in on July 12, 2024
Top five documentaries will be shown at the festival

Jury

Lindsay Firestone
Film & Special Content Projects Lead,
Bloomberg Philanthropies

dream hampton
Filmmaker

Will N. Miller
Producer, The Territory & Co-founder, Documist

Aaron Rutkoff
Executive Editor, Bloomberg Green

Jill Tidman
Executive Director, The Redford Center

▶ On a Wing and a Prayer

By Nadia and Dominic Gill

▶ Forest Guardian

By Anthony Ochieng Onyango

▶ Land to Market

By Andrew Bydlon

▶ Plant Based Planet

By Whitney Beer-Kerr and Leona Lewis

▶ The Farm Under the City

By Jordan Carroll, Brett Chapman and Lewis Coates

2022 Film Festival

On October 26, 2022, Nadia and Dominic Gill were announced as the winners of the 2022 Bloomberg Green Docs Film Festival at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The evening featured screenings of the top five films and a Q&A panel with the judges.

The films explored topics ranging from regenerative agriculture to climate activism to food sustainability. Finalists were selected by a jury consisting of Bloomberg Green’s John Fraher and Aaron Rutkoff; actors Ed Begley Jr. and Sam Heughan; filmmakers Eva Orner and Oliver English; climate scientist Deanna Hence; Anna Jane Joyner, founder and director of Good Energy; and Jill Tidman, executive director of the Redford Center.

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Past Finalists