The Here Now Project

Climate change is affecting more and more human lives. In this film, we see global natural disasters, captured by ordinary people, reflecting the dramatic events of 2021. In a production of unprecedented scale, Emmy-winning filmmakers Greg Jacobs and Jon Siskel chronicle that crucial year through the eyes of ordinary people around the world.

From the streets of Brooklyn to the forests of Siberia, a relentless barrage of fires, floods, and storms made devastatingly clear that the extreme weather climate scientists had been predicting for half a century had arrived.

Built out of thousands of hours of in-the-moment footage — no narration, no talking heads — The Here Now Project transforms the ordinary act of shooting a cell phone video into the radical act of bearing witness, capturing both the simultaneous, global nature of climate change itself and the deeply human resilience, resourcefulness, and courage needed to confront it. At once intimate, epic, immersive, and inspiring, the film is a wake-up call to the world from the world. The message: we’re all in this, together.