James Shikada
Tokyo, Japan
<p>I’m James Shikada, a 31 year-old, British / Japanese Screenwriter and Climate Activist. In the last 12 years of my life in Tokyo, I have devoted a great deal of my time to writing screenplays with an environmental message, holding the belief that film is our finest tool to truly engage our societal majority. Since 2004, I have been researching climate change with an obsessive interest. I had learned the truth, and there was no going back. Seeing how the answers to climate change were the same as what is needed in solving our most dire issues, from famine to energy, I have long viewed climate change to be our greatest unifier, with the potential to unite our global causes into a powerful revolutionary force. </p> <p>But over the last decade, our mainstream media has made a tabloid mockery of climate science - which scientists claim has gone through the most rigorous peer review process in the history of science. In the world of 24 hour news, the perpetual argument between skeptic and expert was a ratings winner, and for that skeptics were given equal platform. For a few extra dollars in the media pocket, the essential realities of climate change were mired by fake controversy, never to be truly accepted beyond the question of “is it real?” </p> <p>After years of being sickened beyond tolerance, I made the conscious decision to devote myself fully to the cause. In 2008, I attended the UK’s Sheffield International Doc/Fest to gather professional support for <a href="http://www.returnproject.net">Return Project</a><strong>, </strong>an ambitious climate change film project filled with factual delivery strategy. But it was there I learned that our major factual TV networks had made a policy-based decision to no longer report on the alarming facts of climate change. With the failures of not only our mainstream media but our top factual TV broadcasters, the job of truth-telling was now solely in the hands of the independent. </p> <p>Since then I have surrendered every spare minute I have to bettering strategy in effective climate communication. Having gained the support of leading experts and scientists in the community, I attempted to deliver my work to the most powerful climate activist in Hollywood - Director James Cameron. But I will no longer hold my breath for a miracle. Using one of my many unique narratives designed to optimize climate education, I have decided to embark on an independent film production - ‘The Blueprint’</p>
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