An Inconvenient Truth 2

An Inconvenient Truth 2 is a 3-episode TV series.
Release
It was first transmitted on the Community Channel in the UK on December 7, 14 and 21, 2011 (3 x 22min episodes). In March 2012 a 71-minute version was distributed digitally on Amazon under the name 'A Green Truth',. In September 2012 a 53-minute version was screened in two UK cinemas, The Bacon Theatre in Cheltenham UK (presented by Sir Jonathon Porritt CBE) and York Picturehouse Citiscreen in York UK.
A screening of the 71-minute version was held at the filmmaker's local independent cinema, the Sherborne Cinema in Gloucester on March 12, 2017 followed by a Q&A session with the director.
Background
Inspired by An Inconvenient Truth, An Inconvenient Truth 2 is a film about solutions to climate change. The presenter Jack Guest with a film crew in 2006 went to Sweden, a country aiming to breaking its dependence on oil by 2020. Whilst there they interviewed a range of people, from politicians, corporate organisations, scientists, families and entrepreneurs.
A theatrical screening of An Inconvenient Truth 2 was held at both The Bacon Theatre, Cheltenham in September 2012, and then the York Cityscreen cinema in York.
Credits
* Narrator: Andrew Greenough
* Presenter: Jack Guest
* Associate Producers: Mark Rotherham, Benjamin Everingham
* Executive Producers: Alan Smith, Marcus Hemsley, Grace Kite, Helen Dines, Alastair Wolfe, Stephen O'Neill, Suzie Mumme, Fiorello Belperio.
* Advice & Support: Kate Forester, Jessica Storr, Diensen Palbarn, Adam Bennet, Chris Walker, Natasha Bondi, Rupert Read, Paul Nasse, Doug Lyon, Tom Tapper.
* Opening title sequence: Alex Wright
* Closing title sequence: Margot Buff
* Voiceover Recording: Robert Moorman and Thom Paisley.
Critical reception
Overall the UK Community Channel broadcast (episode 1 of 3 TV episodes) received 3 stars out of 5 in Time Out.
The Time Out reviewer David Jenkins added about the film:
"One suspects that the legal team on Al Gore's original 2006 Powerpoint extravaganza may have their own 'Inconvenient truth' to lay on the makers of this coat-tail clinging series, which takes a glance at some of the methods being used to tackle climate change. Fledgling director Jack Guest hops on a variety of eco vehicles to yomp from his hometown of Cheltenham to Sweden so he can speak to some of the country's industrial innovators about the steps they're taking to prevent the planet from becoming and apocalyptic cess-pool. It's very ragged around the edges and has no real sustained argument, though it piles in enough factoids to justify the enticingly slim runtime. Though the wannabe raffish narration is an unnecessary distraction."
A screening in York was reviewed in the independent media outlet and student run University of York website The Yorker. "Another thing which I love is how quintessentially British this film is - production started in 2006, just after Al Gore released his film. It's as if Jack said, 'Hang on - it's not all doom and gloom!' This was developed more in the question and answer session shown afterward the screening. He explained how his aim was to show that environmental changes are achievable in our lifetime to motivate a younger audience, but also that the change starts now, not with the next generation - a core message for the green movement."
A Convenient Prequel
In January 2020 ‘A Convenient Prequel’, was released in the UK certified 12A by the BBFC and with a feature-length duration. A Convenient Prequel was presented in Cheltenham at the Bacon Theatre by veteran environmentalist Sir Jonathon Porritt CBE and released to the general public in March 2020. The film’s synopsis reads, ‘A CONVENIENT PREQUEL is a travelogue in which a man takes a low-carbon trip to Canada to propose marriage.’

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