European Premiere of Hollywood Documentary “Legion 44” at Nuremberg’s CINEMAGNUM
Nuremberg’s CINEMAGNUM at Cinecittà rolled out the purple carpet for the premiere of Leila Conners’ cinema documentary “Legion 44” on Tuesday night, welcoming almost 500 invited visitors to the domed corridor with its gigantic display.
Following the movie screening, a Q&A session was held with producer and director Leila Conners and members of her workforce from Los Angeles and New York. A number of protagonists of the movie have been additionally current, together with Fürth entrepreneur Dirk Paessler (CEO of Carbon Drawdown Initiative), who participated as a co-producer and is featured within the movie as an entrepreneurial instance. Nuremberg-based IT service supplier Hemmersbach GmbH sponsored the night, with CEO Ralph Koczwara attending alongside quite a few staff. Many staff of Paessler AG have been additionally in attendance.
The occasion continued with a reception within the Marble Corridor of the Nuremberg Press Membership, that includes reside music and a festive ambiance. “What a night, what a screen, that was incredible!” wrote a beaming Leila Conners later that very same night time.
What’s Legion 44 and what’s the movie about?
“Legion 44 is more than a film; it’s a love letter to humanity and the third film on climate by Leila Conners.” It poses the query, “Will we initiate real action to stop climate change once and for all?” The movie’s message is optimistic, asserting that humanity can obtain this by pooling efforts and elevating the mandatory funds.
The movie showcases the results and damages brought on by local weather change. Nonetheless, it additionally gives detailed accounts of entrepreneurial actions all over the world aimed toward stopping local weather change. These entrepreneurs share a standard premise: To halt local weather change, CO2 emissions have to be additional lowered utilizing all accessible means. In the end, nevertheless, these efforts is not going to be sufficient to cease international warming. Present CO2 have to be faraway from the air and completely sequestered.
There are numerous strategies for reaching this, all based mostly on pure processes which have regulated greenhouse gasoline ranges within the ambiance for tens of millions of years. The movie tells the tales of the researchers and younger entrepreneurs who’re supporting and accelerating these processes to fight the local weather disaster.
Leila Conners and her workforce traveled the globe, interviewing entrepreneurs, scientists, and firms. They captured beautiful photos documenting the destruction and penalties of local weather change, in addition to the efforts of the aforementioned protagonists. They visited Tuvalu, an island nation within the Pacific threatened by local weather change; Mount Kenya; Sligo, Republic of Eire; Morocco; Canada; Hat Creek, Virginia/USA; North Carolina; Iceland; New York; Zurich; Munich; Freiburg; and final however not least, the Farrnbach Valley in Fürth. She met with the people taking motion, introducing them and giving them a voice.
The Legion contains all those that take part, making contributions of any variety to cease local weather change and take away CO₂ from the air. It’s supposed in its place for these whose supposed contribution consists of destroying artwork in museums or gluing themselves to highways. The quantity 44 refers back to the molecular weight of CO₂.
The movie powerfully conveys, with compelling arguments and emotional resonance, that local weather change is occurring globally, affecting everybody (albeit to various levels relying on wealth and area), and that each particular person is known as upon to do their half. Everybody has a task to play. All palms on deck!
Who’s Leila Conners?
Leila Conners (born 1967) is the director and producer of the documentary movie Legion 44. Conners has been following humanity’s wrestle with local weather change for over 20 years. Her cinematic work is acknowledged and famend. Her most well-known movie is “The 11th Hour” (director, 2007), partly because of the involvement of Leonardo DiCaprio (as producer, actor, and narrator) and Steven Hawkins (as a participant). She adopted this with “Ice on Fire”, additionally produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. Now, she brings us Legion 44 at an important second, elevating the query: Will we provoke actual motion to enhance local weather change as soon as and for all?
Who’s Dirk Paessler?
Dirk Paessler turned his concentrate on local weather after a profession in laptop software program. He’s the founding father of Paessler (head quartered in Nuremberg). In 2020, he formally based Carbon Drawdown Initiative GmbH, turning into a really early “member” of the Legion 44 motion (earlier than it might be known as that). The small firm based mostly in Fürth is targeted on selling analysis, public relations, and influence funding within the discipline of “negative emissions.” This entails eradicating carbon from the ambiance and subsequently storing it long-term: “To achieve the major goal of ‘Net Zero’ – and thus a reduction of emissions to net zero – this CO2 removal is essential, especially since unavoidable emissions will continue to occur in the future. In a next step, historical emissions should also be reversed in order to lower the current temperature again.” “If this does not happen, the too warm climate will persist for millennia” – that is Dirk Paessler’s conviction.
In the meantime, the Carbon Drawdown Initiative has additionally launched its personal Enhanced Weathering undertaking: “Project Carbdown” is being applied in cooperation with know-how corporations from the Nuremberg metropolitan area and famend scientists from numerous worldwide universities. These embody the Alfred Wegener Institute and the colleges of Erlangen, Hamburg, Mainz, Würzburg, Copenhagen, and Wageningen. Dirk Paessler and his CTO Ralf Steffens are featured in Legion 44 in each phrases and pictures.
Pictures © Nicolas Buitrago/Hemmersbach GmbH and H. Dormann
