The Cowspiracy Conference is in Berkeley, California on September 17. I encourage people to sign up and attend. (And if somehow you haven't yet seen Cowspiracy (website, trailer), by all means check out the compelling environmental documentary on Netflix, or the companion book, The Sustainability Secret (Amazon)!)
This brings up the issue that the role that film could play in promoting EA causes more generally. I'd love to have people's thoughts on any or all of the following issues, and/or similar issues:
- Existing plans to make films on EA or high-impact topics
- Existing EA or semi-EA films people should watch, screen, or promote
- EA-related films that should exist
- candidate topics
- candidate titles
- candidate pitches
- etc.
- Promotion & audience engagement
- Effectiveness issues
- cost
- cost-effectiveness
- expected impact
- room for funding
- tractability
- talent needs
IIRC in conversation at EA Global the maker of Speciesism said the total cost of that film was <$100,000 US. I believe he said he was in the process of making another animal advocacy documentary but I am not sure.
Probably also worh noting that:
There’s preliminary evidence (p.23-25) that documentaries could be one of the most effective diet change interventions.
I think Faunalytics is currently considering some type of evaluation of the effect of a documentary on diet.
There’s could already be an adequate supply of animal advocacy (excluding WAS) documentaries. It’s could be better to instead direct resources to promoting existing documentaries rather than funding additional documentaries.
Daniel Irving is currently making a documentary about EA. Little unsure of the specifics involved, but he has interviewed a number of EAs.