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The Thailand-based festival is accepting climate-focused shorts until 31 January 2027, with separate routes for Asian productions and filmmakers worldwide. Changing Climate, Changing Lives (CCCL) Film Festival has opened submissions for its 2027 edition. The call began on 5 October, giving filmmakers almost four months to enter work exploring the impacts of climate change. Presented […]

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Dayna Reggero of The Climate Listening Project, Rita Frost of Dogwood Alliance and Rev. Leo Woodberry of the Justice First Tour, discuss forest conservation and how to protect our connection to nature. Forests are life-sustaining. Forests provide us with the very air we breathe and clean our drinking water supply. They are our connection to nature and can help us cope with stress, fatigue and anxiety. For over 20 years, Dogwood Alliance has worked with diverse communities, partner organizations and decision-makers to protect Southern forests across 14 states.The Justice First Tour calls for a strong network of grassroots and frontline organizations working together to advance climate justice and forest protection, with a focus on 100% clean energy for 100% of the people.

All images courtesy of Zack Grant # A Short Film Sheds Light on the Garfield Phones Washing Up on a French Beach Since the ’80s August 6, 2026 ClimateFilm Kate Mothes * Share * Pin * Email * Copy * __Bookmark Amid the rugged, wave-churned shoreline of France’s Breton coast, a surprising tidbit of pop culture has kept beachcombers returning for more than 40 years. The short film “Silly Little Plastic Cat” transports us to this slice of Brittany, where local residents grew up collecting parts of a 1984 Garfield-themed plastic telephone on the beach—and still do. Photographer and director Zack Grant, founder the production studio 2020 Land, was intrigued by the story, which made news a few years back after the source of the dispersed merchandise was finally discovered. The part of Brittany where the phones wash up is situated along a busy shipping thoroughfare. At some point during their transit in the mid-1980s, the shipping container carrying thousands of the units fell into the sea, and over the years, its spilled contents have continued to arrive in distinctively orange, tangled jumbles. As quirky as it is, the phenomenon also shines a light on the less humorous side: the vast quantity of garbage that washes ashore. To put the scale of pollution into perspective, nearly 1,500 shipping containers were lost in 2025 alone. Less than 10 percent of those were recovered; the rest are still missing. It’s a small fraction of the hundreds of millions of containers transported annually, yet a single 40-foot container could hold the contents of an entire three- or four-bedroom house or around 400 mattresses. Multiply that by several hundred and consider everything we ship—clothing, medical supplies, car parts, you name it—and we can start to scratch the surface of the oceans’ staggering garbage patches. “Silly Little Plastic Cat” illuminates the reality of pollution and also highlights how locals are motivated to help. Residents have adopted Garfield as something of a de facto mascot for cleanup projects. “We are 100 percent responsible for the current climate situation and current pollution,” says a local conservationist who aids in beach cleanups via Surfrider Foundation. “We are also actors in the solutions.” Another initiative invites people to work together to regenerate older or damaged items, making them usable once again while reducing consumption. See more on Grant’s work on Vimeo. **Do stories and artists like this matter to you?** Become a Colossal Member now, and support independent arts publishing. * Hide advertising * Save your favorite articles * Get 15% off in the Colossal Shop * Receive members-only newsletter * Give 1% for art supplies in K-12 classrooms ### Join us today! $7/month $75/year Explore membership options Next article