The University of Roehampton is pleased to announce that Associate Professor Josh Appignanesi, Programme Convenor on the MA Filmmaking programme, will release his latest feature documentary, Colossal Wreck.
The film premieres tonight at Curzon Soho and will enter UK cinemas on Friday 7 November, coinciding with the lead-up to COP30 in Brazil.
Speaking about the release, Josh Appignanesi said: "I’m delighted to be releasing our film about COP in UK cinemas in the light of the upcoming COP30 climate conference in Brazil, and thanks ever so much to Roehampton's own Susanna Wesley Foundation, who were instrumental in backing the project and making it a reality."
The documentary was produced by Appignanesi and Devorah Baum, with music by Vik Sharma, and is distributed by Dartmouth Films. The project was partially funded by the Susanna Wesley Trust, associated with the Southlands Methodist Trust.
Tickets for tonight’s premiere at Curzon Soho are still available here
For further updates, follow Colossal Wreck on X and Instagram, and for more on Josh Appignanesi’s work, visit www.joshappignanesi.com.
Plot Synopsis
Colossal Wreck is a feature documentary taking us on an odyssey inside the COP28 climate conference in Dubai. Are these enormous gatherings all about empty promises that hinder change, or are they the only hope for world-saving unity?
With his innocuous selfie stick, filmmaker Josh Appignanesi moves unnoticed through Dubai's seductive slickness to reveal the talks, meetings and backroom parties behind the strange mixture of a global cry for help and political jostling that defines a COP.
Lost in translation, he comes face to face with the irony of an oil baron hosting this last-chance climate saloon in a techno-utopian leisure city that, er, happens to be built in a burning desert. But then the business-as-usual is ruptured by a searing encounter with indigenous voices from the frontline of climate injustice.
