| Young Voices for the Planet: Kids vs Global Warming (5 min) US |
Friday 10/17, 11:15 AM (Session 2)
UNAFF & KIDS PROGRAM (FREE ADMISSION)
Director/Producer: Lynne Cherry
Description:
Twelve-year-old Alec Loorz creates numerous campaigns to try to stop climate change in his lifetime.
Biography:
Lynne Cherry is the founder of the nonprofit organization Young Voices on Climate Change, producer/director of the Young Voices for the Planet (YVFP) film series, children’s book author and illustrator, and a lecturer on climate change messaging and environmental issues. Many of Lynne’s thirty award-winning children’s books, including the classics The Great Kapok Tree and A River Ran Wild, have been listed on the New York Times Best-Seller List, 40 Best Classic Nature Books of the Century and NSTA’s Outstanding Trade Books of the Year, and have been featured on the Reading Rainbow and Martha Stewart LIVE television shows. Lynne received a BA from Tyler School of Art, her teaching degree from Temple University and a masters in history from Yale. Lynne has held artist-in-residencies at Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institution, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Cornell University, and science-writing fellowships from the Marine Biological Lab and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Her many awards include the Metcalf Fellowship, the Brandwein Prize and Environmental Educator of the Year from the North American Association of Environmental Educators. Many environmental and educational institutions including National Geographic, PBS, the United Nations Foundation and National Wildlife Federation have licensed Lynne’s Young Voices for the Planet films.
Contact Information:
e: youngvoicesforplanet@gmail.com
w: www.youngvoicesonclimatechange.com
©2014 United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF)
