Award-winning director Damon Gameau (That Sugar Film) embarks on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040, if we simply enbraced the best solutions already available to us to improve our planet and shift them rapidly into the mainstream. The film is structured as a visual letter to his 4-year old daughter.

This special screening of 2040 will be followed by a Q&A with director Damon Gameau and Kate Raworth, co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab. Hosted by Sophia Swithern, Trustee of BBC Media Action.

Damon Gameau is an Australian film director, producer, author and activist.

He wrote, directed and performed the vocals for Animal Beatbox, which won Tropfest in 2011 and has played at over 25 international film festivals. In 2015, he released his debut feature documentary That Sugar Film, which became the highest grossing Australian documentary of all time, has been released in over 25 territories and picked up a host of awards around the world. His accompanying campaign book, That Sugar Book, was a best seller in Australia, has been published in 20 countries and translated into 8 languages. That Sugar Guide, co-written with his wife Zoë Gameau, soon followed.

Damon’s latest documentary ‘2040’ has been a box office smash in Australia and is currently screening in cinemas across the UK and Germany. His accompanying book ‘2040: a handbook for the Regeneration’ is published by Pan Macmillan.

Kate Raworth is co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab which is now turing the ideas of Doughnut Economics into practice.

A renegade economist focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges, Kate Raworth is the brain behind the widely influential theory of Doughnut Economics and author of ‘Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist’. At the centre of her work is the creation of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries, which defines a safe and just space for humanity to exist. Kate is Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab which is now turing the ideas of Doughnut Economics into practice.

Sophia Swithern is an analyst and writer on global humanitarian challenges. She works with governments, global institutions and civil society organisations, helping to find ways to better address today’s crises and better prepare for tomorrow’s. Grounded in her experience in humanitarian responses, Sophia has written influential reports and guided policy and practice on issues including refugee protection, data responsibility, and people-centred approaches to disaster response. She’s currently working on research to rethink how the world pays for the costs of crises. Sophia is also a trustee of BBC Media Action, and a visiting lecturer on crisis financing.

This event is supported by the Global Health Film Festival.