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ACTionism is a film about the art of finding your people to take collective action. About collectively moving from passive consumers to active citizens. A story centered around doing things with others, not to others.
WATCH THE TRAILER
COMMUNITY SCREENINGS
We’ve launched ACTionism through community screenings. We’re all about encouraging communities to take action. We hope this film will do just that by inspiring, and connecting people through community screenings and conversations.
INSPIRE
ACTionism the film follows Ellie Meredith on a journey from anxiety to action.
“School was a tricky time for me—as a neurospicy human, I hated being stuck in four walls all day. The mounting pressure of exams and anxiety became too much, and I crawled inside myself. Add to that cocktail a rising sense of climate anxiety, and it all felt completely overwhelming. I kept thinking about what I could do. The question itself was rooted in uncertainty about my own future—a future that felt like it was being mapped out for me. But what I really wanted was to get stuck in, to find my people. To feel less alone.”
“I found myself drawn to the work of Re-Action. At a time when most of the actions I was told to take to “save the planet” felt like joyless personal sacrifices—buying a reusable coffee cup—this kind of action felt different. It meant that there might be a way for me to take action alongside others, not as if I was on some solo mission to save the world.
And this film is the unravelling of where that led me next.”
CONNECT
After watching the film we’re encouraging community screenings to save space for conversations. To help, we’ve partnered with our friends 99p Films, the experts of social cinema, to create a guide titled ‘how to social cinema.’
This guide will include info on how to host a conversation, and how to create space for open and fair discussions.
ACT COLLECTIVELY
We want to be part of building communities of active citizens, not passive consumers. To accompany the film the Re-Action Collective have created a handbook of stories, focusing on the question “how did you start?”. The handbook will feature stories from across the globe of citizens connecting and acting in communities.
Sitting alongside this handbook are a set of guides from Party Kit Network founder Isabel Mack about practical, actionable ideas to help you build community connections, spread awareness, and inspire others to get involved. Plus info from Scott Johnson and the Counting Change community (a collective of accountants) about whether we need permission or structures to start taking action.
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ACTionism would not be possible without the generous support and expertise of our partners:
