The Zain Jaffer Foundation will concentrate its next round of funding on a mind-changing documentary: Deej Phillips’ ‘The Weight of Water: The Human Cost of Climate Crisis.’
The film makes a powerful impact by weaving between three emotional stories. Set in Nepal, viewers are introduced to communities that are already being impacted by out-of-season flooding and climate-change-related droughts. The ramifications of those natural disasters to the community are evident and made worse by the existing injustice; climate change and increasingly extreme weather events are compounding in their impact to prevent economic advancement and to reverse the advancement that already stood in place.
The feature-length documentary will offer viewers intimate and resonant access to communities of Nepali people and climate experts who tell a concise, impossible-to-forget story in their own words.
Seeing even one minute of the footage, it feels both imperative and urgent that those words are offered to a global audience—anything less could put us many years back in what might be the fight of our generation.
Deej Phillips is a talented British documentary filmmaker with more than eight years of image-making experience. He’s known for his unique tact in capturing moving cinematic footage in live-time, and telling important stories from the inside out—preserving the community’s understanding as it stands and compelling the global stage to take an interest, listen, and have their minds expanded in the process.
Phillips’ work aims to shine a light on environmental and humanitarian issues all over the world, and The Weight of Water furthers that aim. The film’s trailer has been screened at a virtual United National Development Programme (UNDP) event, and having been incredibly well received, the project is scheduled for a far-reaching release in late Q1 of 2022.
