Infield Fly Productions Wins Homeland Earth Award for Innovative Approach to Doc on Climate Change

Curb Your Carbon narrated by Ryan Reynolds received the Homeland Earth Award at the prestigious Silbersalz Science and Media Awards in Germany with its unique approach to climate change.

If food waste was its own country it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gas in the world, after China and the US.

“Rather than the usual depressing story about the destruction caused by climate change,” says producer Dugald Maudsley, “we decided to use humour, amazing animations and unexpected stunts to reveal just how easy it is for us to cut billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide.”

Curb Your Carbon travels the world to uncover 10 things we can all do and brings them to life with a little help from a German racing driver who never hits the gas, a Canadian family of garbage stealing Ninjas, and a bug exterminator who eats crickets, grasshoppers and scorpions.

The jury had really some great remarks on the production,” said Irem Couchouron head of programs at the festival. “The whole idea is to promote creative science storytelling on all mediums, to incubate new ways of communicating science through art, through cinema and through ideas exchange as well as focusing on globally relevant topics.”

Infield Fly Productions joined an impressive list of winners from around the world including Nutopia from the U.K. and Austria’s Terra Mater Studios.

“Curb Your Carbon may be irreverent, but it also provides a clear blueprint for fighting climate change,” says director P.J. Naworynski. “Working together we have the power to cut C02 emissions, give our beautiful planet a break and save ourselves in the bargain.”