Climate is HERE NOW
We all have a climate story. What’s yours?
The Here Now Project weaves together in-the-moment, self-shot footage from 2021—no narration, no talking heads—to create an unprecedented visual diary of the impact climate change is already having on ordinary people around the world. At once immersive, epic, intimate, and inspiring, the film is a wake-up call to the world from the world.
From the streets of Brooklyn to the forests of Siberia, a relentless barrage of fires, floods, and storms has made devastatingly clear that the extreme weather climate scientists have been predicting for half a century is here. Emmy-winning filmmakers Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs capture a year of climate extremes through the eyes of everyday people around the world.
Built out of thousands of hours of in-the-moment footage, The Here Now Project transforms the ordinary act of shooting a cell phone video into the radical act of bearing witness, capturing both the simultaneous, global nature of climate change itself and the deeply human resilience, resourcefulness, and courage needed to confront it.
“Riveting…there is something about the collected aspect of all these experiences that hammers home both the scale and the on-the-ground reality of the situation. It’s shaky, unpolished and mesmerizing, often mere steps from total disaster, and very much on thefrontlines.”
— Dorothy Woodend, The Tyee
“Last weekend, I attended the U.S. premiere of The Here Now Project at the inaugural Climate Film Festival—and was totally wowed. The movie’s power lies in echoes and patterns of human nature, from our curiosity to our horror to our powerful compassion and self-sacrifice.”
— Jeva Lange, Heatmap, 9/27/24
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TESTIMONIALS
“Highly recommended!”
– Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist, Nature Conservancy
“This film strips away the politics and numbers, leaving us with the only thing that matters—the human reality of climate change. This documentary doesn’t just educate—it compels you to act.”
—Francis Perrin, Chief Brand & Sustainability Officer, Rehlko
“An hour & fifteen minutes that will change your life. It’s a film that reminds us that climate change isn’t actually about climate at all…It’s about People.”
—John Long, CEO, Igloo Regeneration
Past SCREENINGS
• World Economic Forum (World Premiere)
• Hot Docs (Film Festival Premiere)
• CinemAmbiente (Turin, Italy)
• Blue Planet Future Festival (Busan, S. Korea)
• Climate Film Festival (U.S. Premiere)
• Windsor International Film Festival
• Braunschweig International Film Festival
• Chicago Council on Global Affairs
• Midwest Sustainability Summit
• DocPoint (Helsinki, Finland)
• Human International Documentary Film Festival (Oslo, Norway)
• Movies That Matter (The Hague, The Netherlands)
• Docville Film Festival (Leuven, Belgium)
• National Adaptation Forum
• San Francisco Climate Week
• Hope College
• Northwestern University
• Open Screen Luxembourg
• UK Green Film Festival (UK Premiere)
• European Climate Victims Commemoration Day
• Midwest Climate Resilience Conference
• Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light
• Northeastern Illinois University
• Varmere Våtere Villere (Bergen, Norway)