Date: 2021 · Country: Cambodia, Thailand · DP: Thomas Cristofoletti, Nicolas Axelrod · Producer: Marta Kasztelan, Ryn Jirenuwat · Translator: Simouy Seng & Tra · Client: YouTube Originals / Silverbacks Film
“Seat at the Table” aims to paint a truly global picture of the climate emergency facing our world.
Jack Harries, 28, filmmaker and activist, has talked with farmers and firefighters, inventors and activists. People whose voices need to be heard at the COP26’s global climate conference.
In Cambodia, we shot the story of Chhum Shim (min 5.00 above), a Cambodian rice farmer impacted by weather patterns altered by climate change. To pay back the loan she took out for her farm, she and her family left their home in the countryside to work in a brick kiln in the capital. She, like many others, is a climate migrant.
In Bangkok, we filmed with Kotchakorn Voraakhom (min 7.00 below), a Thai landscape architect working to design environmentally friendly green space in Thailand.