Episode 2. On Collaboration: Future Forward and The Climate Pledge with Hilary Sparrow & Senain Kheshgi

“When I came on The Climate Pledge team, I started to learn about all the many incredible efforts of innovation and technology and all of the incredibly smart people across the globe working to solve these [climate change] problems… this story is not being told. I wanted to tell stories of innovation and hope and inspiration.”
-Hilary Sparrow

Today, we’re talking about Future Forward, a character-driven documentary series featuring the people and businesses pioneering industry innovation on the front lines of climate change. The series is a collaboration between award-winning documentary filmmakers from Majority and The Climate Pledge, co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism.

The Climate pledge currently has 375+ signatories from diverse business sectors including transport, aviation, energy, real estate and software, all committed to be carbon net-zero by 2040. 

Our guests, Hilary Sparrow and Senain Kheshgi, are two of the women behind the six-film series, Future Forward. In our conversation, we explore collaboration as the solution to the climate crisis and visual storytelling as a way to share innovation and inspire hope.

About Our Guests: 

Senain Kheshgi is an award-winning, South Asian-American, Muslim filmmaker. She has directed several feature and short films. In 2018, she co-founded, MAJORITY, the auteur-driven production company that supports diverse women-identifying filmmakers to create innovative documentary, fiction, commercial and branded projects. 

Learn More | www.majorityfilm.com
Instagram: @wearemajority
Linkedin | @majorityfilm
Twitter | @MAJORITYFilm

Hilary Sparrow is the Head of Communications and Content for The Climate Pledge at Amazon where she leads the content and digital strategy designed to inspire other companies to set net-zero climate goals and join The Climate Pledge community. Sparrow’s projects have won numerous awards and nominations including an Oscar nomination, two News and Documentary Emmy’s, Telly’s, and Webby’s, among others.
Learn more about The Future Forward Film Series
Instagram | @theclimatepledge
Twitter | @climatepledge
LinkedIn | The Climate Pledge

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