www.climatetalks.tv, which launched on Tuesday, 22 September 2009, will host video footage and other multimedia assets related to climate change from a variety of sources to support broadcast, print and online journalists' stories around the event.
Video footage will be available for download in broadcast quality from October through until the end of December 2009 and beyond into 2010. In addition to providing the latest stories on the debate, the site also incorporates RSS-feed functionality so journalists can sign-up to receive alerts when new content is added.
“We've developed and launched climatetalks.tv to support the communications activities of over 1000 organisations attending the Copenhagen event in December, as well as the hundreds of companies and government bodies who have a stake in the climate change debate,” stated World Television founder, Peter Sibley.
“Broadcast and online journalists will need news content from the widest range of sources to report authoritatively on what is probably the most pressing issue of the 21st century and climatetalks.tv will deliver it; 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”
Journalists wishing to participate in the global debate by making their content available on climatetalks.tv or needing help creating original video content can email .
More green comes to the local screen as Ster-Kinekor and Cinema Nouveau partners with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for the South African release of Earth at Cinema Nouveau from Wednesday 23 September .
The BBC Worldwide/Greenlight Media feature film follows three animal families as they migrate across the planet, with Star Trek's Patrick Stewart as narrator. It was five years in production, filmed in 200 locations featuring 26 countries in the final movie, including unseen parts of the Sahara desert in Africa. Forty specialist crews shot 1000s of hours of footage, including 250 days of aerial photographs.
“We at the WWF have been anxiously looking forward to the release of Earth in SA,” said Laurika du Bois, head of marketing & communications WWF South Africa.
“The film presents a great opportunity for us to also lend our voice to the messages the film conveys in an exciting new way, giving cinemagoers a wealth of information about our precious planet, without becoming too serious or technical, and presenting a visually spectacular, accessible film for kids and families to enjoy. We will also be linking our ‘Vote Earth' campaign to the WWF preview screenings of the film.”
For more, go to www.wwf.org.za amd www.sterkinekor.com.
