Film and video · GIZ
Talanoa: stories from Brazil for COP24, for GIZ
A two-minute video in English showing at COP24 how Brazil lived the Talanoa Dialogue: six rounds and more than 130 stories from people taking climate action.
Film still · Forest Criações
- Client
- GIZ
- Year
- 2018
- Territory
- Brazil, for the country's pavilion at COP24, in Poland
- Format
- Institutional video in English, about 2 minutes
- Funding
- GIZ, with the Ministry of the Environment, Itamaraty, the NDC Partnership and the World Bank
The challenge
Talanoa is a Fijian word for an inclusive, participatory and transparent dialogue. Since COP23, Brazil had run its own Talanoa process and wanted to show at COP24, in Poland, what had happened in the country. The audience would be climate experts, with scattered attention in an environment packed with content. The video had to be short, in English, and not explain a concept the audience already knew.
The film
What we delivered
- Script in English
- Video with and without subtitles
- Animated map of Brazil with the dialogue rounds
- Forest Comics illustration on the origin of Talanoa
What we did
We started from the raw footage of the rounds and a text summarizing the process. The script is organized around the three Talanoa questions, where are we, where do we want to go and how do we get there, and around stories told by participants, such as teacher Elizabeth Marques Duarte Pereira's on solar energy in low-income communities and Fábio Feldman's on vehicle rotation in São Paulo.
Motion graphics show the number of rounds and stories and a map of Brazil made of cutouts from the meetings. The video includes remarks by the Ministry of the Environment's Secretary for Climate Change and Forests and closes with the partners.
Everything was done in about three weeks, from counter-brief to subtitling, to make it in time for the conference.
Illustration: Forest Comics.
