Documentaries

Picturing My Climate Future

Picturing My Climate Future is a documentary initiative by Seeing for Ourselves (SFO), a nonprofit organization that empowers marginalized communities to share their narratives through photography. Piloted in March 2023 in partnership with Cape Elizabeth High School in Maine, the project invites students to capture images reflecting their perspectives on climate change, using their smartphones to document their local environments. The initiatives seeks foremost to raise awareness about the urgent issues young people face regarding climate change.

After a successful proof-of-concept, SFO plans to expand the initiative into a full-scale program in the spring of 2025. The project aims to engage more students at a national level. Support from The Zain Jaffer Foundation has also been instrumental in developing the below work-in-progress preview version of the documentary, which will serve as a foundation for the final film.

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Through Picturing My Climate Future, SFO and The Zain Jaffer Foundation hope to amplify youth voices and promote intergenerational dialogue about climate action.