Our Mission
Our world is changing. The cycles of our local weather, once familiar, are becoming unrecognizable. The changes are complex, and the ways people experience them can sometimes be devastating. TURNAROUND FILMS documents these changes, explores why they are happening, and introduces the people who are finding innovative ways to mitigate or adapt to them.
The weather's changing…
and it's changing quite quickly. And the infrastructure that was built decades ago is no longer viable for what we're getting in terms of extreme rainfall and much bigger heatwaves.
— Julie Wormser, Mystic River Watershed Assocation
TURNAROUND FILMS’ goal is to provide quality, accurate videos to educators, students, legislators, and activists who need to communicate with the public about climate change. These people are on the frontlines of addressing problems and organizing workable solutions. They often don’t have the means to create video content on these specific issues. Our films are designed to be used in presentations, in classrooms, in town and city meetings, or on websites and social media—anywhere that well-told stories might motivate an audience to pitch in with a shovel, some dollars, or a vote.
TURNAROUND FILMS presents each environmental problem as a film series. In the first episode of each series, we show a problem we are facing and how it will affect us. In the subsequent episodes, we tell the stories of the individuals and organizations that are working to find solutions or a new way of adapting our lives to live with this change. In this way, we can look deeply into issues like stormwater flooding, renewable energies, education, environmental justice, sea-level rise, and many more.
We intend to keep the TURNAROUND FILMS project fully subsidized through donations and grants so that our films can be distributed as inexpensively as possible and that the audiences are never restricted by financial means.