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Watch ! Discuss ! Act !<\/h2>\n

“An informed citizenry is the basic requirement for our survival as free people”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thomas Jefferson<\/cite><\/p>\n

“There is only one Earth. Humans must do everything they can to conserve Earth\u2019s environment now. There is no Planet B.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mike Berners-Leigh<\/cite>
\n\u201cPolycrisis\u201d has become the defining word of our time. The climate crisis. The geopolitical crisis. The crisis of trust and legitimacy that is weakening our liberal democracies. All these crises are \u2018intersectional\u2019: all connected, all reinforce one another, all affect different groups in different ways, and all challenge our ability to understand and\u2014above all\u2014to act.<\/p>\n

Our Pop Up Wake Up festival and events want to help audiences to make sense of all these crises through the lens of the longest-term, most existential threat of all: that of a change in our climate that threatens the very survival of humanity.<\/p>\n

Geopolitics harms our ability to deal with it collectively as a planet; lack of trust hurts democracies\u2019 ability to sustain climate responses; the pandemic we have just lived through was evidence of our biological challenges but also of our difficulties in responding.<\/p>\n

At the heart of everything stands climate. It affects us all, yet also divides us.<\/p>\n

By harnessing the power of great documentaries and combining them with high level debates we want to help Europeans to understand what is going on and to motivate civil society to think, to discuss and to act. Together.<\/p>\n

What the Pop Up Wake UP festival is<\/h2>\n

The Pop Up Wake Up Europe Florence Film Festival is an innovative concept which combines great films, mostly unreleased in Italy, with high-level debates all in front of a diverse, international audiences.<\/p>\n

Everywhere, the showing of the movies is free of charge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The aim of the festival is to use the power of documentary film to pose questions about where we Europeans are going, how and why, helping to foster a European civic consciousness. The debates that accompany the showing of the films are an integral part of the project, creating opportunities for reflection and understanding.<\/p>\n

From Florence, a cultural laboratory and hub of European thought and innovation since the days of the Renaissance, the \u201cmother\u201d Festival aims to sound its wake-up call through Tuscany and Europe to all the cities who want to join in via independent events, internet streaming and the sharing of digital content on social media. It will bring together students and scholars from a wide range of top universities.<\/p>\n

In the minds of the founders of the Wake-Up Europe Festival\u2014Bill Emmott, former editor of The Economist and globally renowned author; Annalisa Piras, award-winning filmmaker and journalist, and their new partner John Hooper, Florence resident, author and Italy correspondent of The Economist\u2014high quality creative documentaries change perceptions, cultures, conversations and, potentially, the way we see the world.<\/p>\n

The first edition of the festival under the patronage of the Cinema Museum and the University of Turin in 2019 had an overwhelmingly enthusiastic reception and spread its message to 10 satellite festival events in:<\/p>\n