THE FILMMAKERS Movie Pitch
July 2019 to April 2020
Me at the Sundance Film Festival 2020 Pitching my movie.
A sci-fi/climate change documentary feature film or mini series proposal by Steve Firkins
“Aliens to Earth: ‘Save yourselves from climate change!’”
Aliens contact reporters to film a news conference about the imminent threat of climate change and request the reporters make a documentary exploring the aliens’ solutions.
The opening scene: three reporters waiting in the desert in the dark of night. They’ve been chosen by aliens to witness and film a news conference. A spaceship arrives. Two aliens are beamed down, humanoids, a man and a woman. They state that if the earth continues to warm, massive volcanoes will erupt and humans will not survive. The Earth must immediately begin to cool. The aliens make several suggestions to reverse global warming.
The aliens ask the reporters to deliver the film footage to network headquarters for broadcast, and make a documentary advocating for their suggestions. The aliens then fly away.
The clock is ticking. The Earth is about to erupt. Can two aliens inspire three reporters to motivate 7 1/2 billion people to save themselves from climate change? It’s the human race against the clock!
Thus begins their 5 day road trip across mid-America documenting a wide range of climate change issues. Informal conversations are interspersed with official on-site news reports giving viewers a good understanding of our climate change crisis and the obstacles we face.
A subplot - all the solutions will cost a lot of money! Who’s got the money? Why do they have it? How do we access it? And how will we use it to create a green world? What is the right mix between capitalism and socialism?
We don’t have much time to figure this out. “The Filmmakers" is a call to collective action.
Spoiler alert - that alien news conference – a fabrication by the reporters!