Recognising film as a powerful medium to educate, a local outfit unearths talent to spread the green message at an upcoming film festival.

YOU might hate his lousy environment track record as US vice-president, but you still have to admit that Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth does shock us into awareness about the direction our environment is headed, and what would be left for our future generations if we are not careful. The 2006 film directed by Davis Guggenheim, in which Gore rings the alarm bells on global warming, went on to win two Oscars €“ best documentary feature and best original song (for I Need to Wake Up by Melissa Etheridge).