Seven

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A group of seven-year-olds talk about their future birthdays. (With subtitles .mov, 15/03)

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Director: Lesley Manning
Producer: Annalise Davis
Writer: Abigail Burdess

Director of Photography: Molly Manning Walker
Editor: Mdhamiri a Nkemi
Composer: Homay Schmitz
Sound Recordist: Gus Puczyniec
Boom Operator: Griff Miles
Associate Producer: James Bowsher
Production Manager: Amy Vearncombe
1st AC: Catharina Scarpellini
2nd AC: Max Gubbay

Sound Post Production: Boom Post Production
Re-recording Mixer: John Richards
FX Editor: Joe Beal
Dialogue Editor: Matt Mewett
Studio Manager: Nicky Poulton
Original Music Performed by: Homay Schmitz
Subtitles: Andy Walker
DCP: Steve Holdsworth

Starring:
Isra Ahmed
Safia Ahmed
Grace Campbell
Annabel Cross
James Dowling
Carla Fernandez
Harry Langton
Ellenor Markenstam
Darsh Patel

With special thanks to:
Lee Mackey at Panavision (UK)
Jon Wardle, Venetia Hawkes, Zlata Hume, Simon Mallin, Chris Auty, Duncan Bruce
Everyone at Jigsaw Arts, especially Emily and Kelly
Jocelyn Bernard and Ava’s grandmother.
Ben Lyle, Sarah Gabriel, Ross Clarke, Andy Paterson, Christian Henson, haun Emery, Kate Haigh, Katie Carruthers, Lily Drywa.
And of course, the parents of our wonderful kids:
Saira, Milsa, Stella, Foong-yee, Selma, Roberto, Danielle, Jesper, and Hireni

Made as part of the Bridges to Industry programme with the support of the National Film and Television School

© Wilder Films 2019

Measuring Londoner’ Daily Exposure to Air Pollution

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The Mayor of London, Environmental Defense Fund, C40 (an international consortium of 90 cities tackling climate change), and a host of partners launched Breathe London, an ambitious project that will measure and map Londoners’ daily exposure to air pollution using a network of advanced air pollution sensors deployed across the city. Breathe London will shine a spotlight on air pollution at a hyper-local level and provide data that lets us not only see the problem, but take action to solve it.

NASA Studies an Unusual Arctic Warming Event

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Winter temperatures are soaring in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row. The heat, accompanied by moist air, is entering the Arctic not only through the sector of the North Atlantic Ocean that lies between Greenland and Europe, as it has done in previous years, but is also coming from the North Pacific through the Bering Strait.

“We have seen winter warming events before, but they’re becoming more frequent and more intense,” said Alek Petty, a sea ice researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Scientists are waiting to see how much this heat wave will impact the wintertime sea ice maximum extent, which has been shrinking in the past decades and has hit record lows each of the past three years. The sea ice levels are already at record lows or near-record lows in several areas of the Arctic. Another exceptional event this winter is the opening up of the sea ice cover north of Greenland, releasing heat from the ocean to the atmosphere and making the sea ice more vulnerable to further melting.

“This is a region where we have the thickest multi-year sea ice and expect it to not be mobile, to be resilient,” Petty said. “But now this ice is moving pretty quickly, pushed by strong southerly winds and probably affected by the warm temperatures, too.”

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center