WIP sees green with ’11th Hour’

Two weeks before its grand premiere at Cannes, Warner Independent Pictures has picked up the domestic rights (world rights go to the international division) to Leonardo DiCaprio's environmentally minded docu. 

Directed and written by Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen, the 11th Hour explores what it will take for humans to make a difference ecologically before it is too late. The 11th Hour interviewed 71 people to create a narrative about the state of the world and how human beings impact our only home, planet earth – from thinkers and leaders including Stephen Hawking, former CIA topper James Woolsey and former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. 
 

I was one of the few who wasn’t enamored by Al Gore’s doc – while the glorified power point presentation did a great job at showing the chart results it also came across as old news and it didn’t dare point the finger to big business culprits and our terrible consumerist habits. Perhaps with the number of talking heads in this doc (quite the selection) there will be more discussion than fact listings. Expect a release from WIP  in the fall, and an early review this summer from IONCINEMA.com.