Colossal Wreck
Synopsis
With his innocuous selfie-stick, filmmaker Josh Appignanesi moves unnoticed through Dubai's seductive slickness to reveal the talks, meetings and backroom parties behind the strange mixture of global cry for help and political jostling that is a COP.
Lost in translation, he comes face to face with the irony of an oil baron hosting this last-chance climate saloon in a techno-utopian leisure city -- that, er, happens to be built in a burning desert. But then the business-as-usual is ruptured by a searing encounter with indigenous voices from the frontline of climate injustice…
Details
- Year
- 2025
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 89 min
- Format
- 4K Video
- Director
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Josh Appignanesi
- Producer
- Josh Appignanesi, Devorah Baum
- Executive Producer
- Christopher Hird
- Sound
- Thomas JR Moss, Joseph Field Eccles, Nicolas Smyth
- Composer
- Vik Sharma
- Other Lead Creative(s)
- Ellen Yu
Production Status
Production Company
Minotaur Film
Josh AppignanesiSales Company
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