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Leila Conners. Director: The 11th Hour. Leila Conners is known for The 11th Hour (2007), Ice on Fire (2019) and The Arrow of Time (2017).
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LEILA CONNERS PETERSEN: An Inconvenient Truth is a brilliant movie that helped to raise awareness and activism on a global scale, but it was specifically about global warming. In our film, we spend about 7 minutes on global warming. The 11th Hour is a story about how humans face an extinction crisis if we continue on the path of business as ...
- Kelp (and other plants) In Ice on Fire, Conners interviews oyster farmer Bren Smith, who explains that kelp, a fast-growing type of seaweed, “soaks up five times more carbon than land-based plants,” and can be used for animal feed, fertilizer, and food for humans.
- Direct air capture. Direct air capture, or DAC, is a method of carbon capture and storage from the air, using machines. Though still in its early stages, Ice on Fire highlights one of the direct capture projects underway via a company called Climeworks, which opened a small-scale CO2 air-capture commercial plant in Zurich, Switzerland, as well as one in Hellisheidi, Iceland.
- Tidal power and wave energy. One of the last innovations Ice on Fire leaves us with is two similar forms of renewable energy being harvested in Orkney, Scotland: tidal power and wave energy.
- Solar and wind power. You’ve likely heard of those ones before, and it may not be a new innovation, but Conners wants to remind viewers of her film that solar and wind energy, thanks to better technology, is more efficient and cheaper to capture than ever.
Leila Conners. Director: The 11th Hour. Leila Conners is known for The 11th Hour (2007), Ice on Fire (2019) and The Arrow of Time (2017).
Leila Conners, Los Angeles. As a film director, writer and the founder of Tree Media, Leila Conners’ environmentally astute documentary collaborations with actor Leonardo DiCaprio – including, most recently, 2019’s ‘Ice On Fire’ – have earned her movies the status of household names. She believes that storytelling is an effective ...
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Jun 11, 2019 · Leila Conners’ follow-up to “The 11th Hour” continues to spread the alarm about climate change but this time offers concrete solutions. Plus Icon Click to expand the Mega Menu.
Leila Conners : Profile. Leila Conners founded Tree Media Group in August of 1996. With a background in international politics, Leila set out to build a production company that creates media to support and sustain civil society by telling inspiring stories. Currently, Leila is writing and directing her next feature film, Into Eden, about how we ...
