Director

Accelerate (2019)

55 minutes

Executive Producer: John Collee

Producer: Blair Palese

Voices of Australian talent, Mia Wasikowska, Rachel Ward, Jack Thompson, Sean Keenan and Simon Baker join Bill McKibben in Accelerate. In 2018, Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, travels around Australia demanding that we accelerate climate action by our government, businesses and communities. Bill is considered as one of the most acclaimed environmental activists in the US. During his time in Australia, he visited five states in just eight days, saw the devastation caused by ocean warming on our Great Barrier Reef, visited Newcastle to meet with union and government officials in the heart of the world’s biggest coal export port, and saw some of the low carbon solution projects underway in Adelaide. Throughout the tour, Bill had three key messages: we need to stop all new fossil fuel projects, switch to 100% renewable energy, and make sure not a dollar more goes toward dirty energy. Accelerate aims to share, inspire and motivate our country to get active before the next federal election to ensure climate change is the central issue nationally.