As a part of the EU project “1Planet4All”, we – Sarah Sadeghi, Vanessa Böttcher, Marcus Walter and Merle Weber – travelled one summer by train all across Europe to film a documentary about the climate crisis, climate activism and visions of young people concerning a climate-related and socially just future.
Sarah Sadeghi
Sarah Sadeghi, climate and human rights activist from Graz. Wanders long-leggy and open-minded through life, has always been skeptical and often didn’t understand why norms change once we cross borders. Her family is from Iran, she grew up in Leoben in Styria. Sarah has studied pedagogy and global studies and likes being an annoying sand grain in a world system that urgently needs to be changed
Vanessa Böttcher
Vanessa Böttcher is a journalist and freelance film producer from Vienna. She grew up in Gosau in the Salzkammergut. After her studies in theatre, film and media studies, she worked as a guest editor of a daily newspaper in Namibia, did an internship at the ORF foreign office in Berlin and started 2013 as TV-journalist at the ORF for the shows “konkret”, “Thema” and “Weltjournal”. For her, showing what is, why it is and how it could be better is the best job ever in her eyes.
Marcus Walter
Marcus Walter is the cinematographer and film producer. Born in Germany, he already moved to Austria quite early to do an apprenticeship as a restaurant specialist. In Vienna, he ran an award-winning restaurant for 4 years and then switched to the film business. Today, he makes documentaries and reports for cinema and the ORF.
Merle Weber
Merle Weber is project manger of “1Planet4All” and educational consultant for Südwind in Graz. Born and raised at the North Sea, she now lives in Styria for almost 20 years. Climate protection and global justice have moved her already since her childhood, just like the wish to contribute effectively to a good life and a just future for all.
„1Planet4All“ is a pan-European project that aims to promote a critical understanding of the climate crisis, its consequences and possible solutions. The project addresses European teenagers and young adults as well as disseminators and opinion-makers that have a wide impact. Apart from sensitising with hard facts, the personal, active engagement should be encouraged and already active groups of young people fighting against the climate crisis in Europe should be supported.
The connection to people in the global south as well plays a central role in this project. They are the ones who feel the consequences of climate change the most, while the climate crisis slowly but still increasingly becomes an existential threat in wealthy countries as well.
The project wants to present hopeful examples of people combatting the climate crisis; it wants to support their visions, ideas and demands regarding an eco-social change, to show that this is not only necessary but also feasible. With this project, changes in politics, economy and social cooperation in the sense of a climate just world should be set in motion.
Thanks to all 1Planet4All project partners who supported us in planning, researching and translating the interviews. The video “Education is Future” from Zambia was kindly made available to us on 11/11/11.