Climate Change Activists Interrupt Locarno Piazza Grande Screening Of Luc Jacquet’s South Pole Doc ‘Magnetic Continent’
deadline.comClimate change activists briefly halted the Locarno Film Festival’s honorary awards ceremony for environmentalist and documentarian Luc Jacquet on Monday evening.Jacquet, who won the Best Documentary Oscar in 2006 for The March Of The Penguins, was being feted with the Locarno Kids Award, followed by a screening of his new film Magnetic Continent in front of a 7,000-strong crowd on the festival’s landmark Piazza Grande.
He was about to say a few words on the documentary, inspired by his 30-year passion for Antarctica and concerns for its future, when two young protestors burst onto the stage and tried to unfurl a banner.
Security guards quickly apprehended the pair, but festival director Giona A. Nazzaro and president Marco Solari intervened to allow them to speak, with the former declaring: “We’re with you.
We’re worried about the same thing.” The activists, wearing t-shirts bearing the slogan “Act Now”, delivered a message highlighting the urgent need for more to be done to tackle the climate emergency.
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