In a New Year’s Eve honour Curb Your Carbon, Infield Fly Productions’ genre-bending documentary on climate change narrated by actor Ryan Reynolds, cracked CBC Gem’s list of Top Ten documentaries in 2022. Up against films on the Rolling Stones, Lady Di and the 1972 Canada-Russia series, Curb Your Carbon was one of only two documentaries from the prestigious Nature of Things to make the top ten list.
“We’re thrilled,” says Infield Fly Creative Director Dugald Maudsley. “Curb Your Carbon has been honoured at film festivals and competitions around the world this year but this was a great way to end 2022.
Curb Your Carbon isn’t your usual climate change documentary. Rather than depress us with the usual litany of disaster, it uses humour, stunts and stunning animations to reveal how we can cut billions of tonnes of C02.
“Our goal with Curb Your Carbon was to inspire people to act,” says co-producer Gillian Main. “When we did our research, we realized that individuals could make a huge difference – the key was getting all of us to make a change.”
This summer Curb Your Carbon won the Homeland Earth Award at the Silbersalz Science and Media Festival, and was nominated for the Most Innovative Program/Project of the Year Award at the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers where it lost out to a documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
We loved making Curb Your Carbon,” says Maudsley. “And we plan to make many more documentaries about climate change in the hope that they’ll change the way people think about our world and what we’re leaving behind for our children.”
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