Prizewinning climate mini-documentaries focus on Bangladesh
Winners were announced Friday Thursday in a contest organized by the World Bank for short-short films - two to five minutes long - documenting the social dimensions of climate change. The 'Vulnerability Exposed' contest put out an open call last autumn for films to be posted on YouTube, with a special plea for documentation of developing-world impacts.
And the winner for vulnerability exposure is... Bangladesh! The judges' top pick and the runner-up focus on unpredictable floods in the country and its salinization by the rising sea - some of the same issues Mason Inman wrote about in NRCC recently.
The first-prize film, "Flood Children of Holdibari" by Mary Matheson, looks at children working out an adaptation plan for floods on their river-island home.
Second prize went to Rosa Rogers for "Climate Change in Bangladesh: Who Will Pay?", a film on how salinization and other effects are changing agricultural patterns in the southern delta.
Anna Barnett
