Category: WEAll
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The First Official ‘Purpose’ Trailer
Yesterday, we published the first trailer for our film ‘Purpose‘ on YouTube. Very excited. If you want to watch a making-of, you can find it here.
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A First-Time Filmmaker’s Rollercoaster Ride
When I decided to go to Iceland for the premiere of my first feature-length film, I realised that I had to document that journey. Today, I am very glad I did — because that journey was as much a rollercoaster as the production of the film had been. Here is a little ten-minute video that…
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Feedback for our Film ‘Purpose’ in Iceland
I’ve been back from Iceland for over a week now, and I’m still terribly excited about the great feedback we received at the premiere of our film “Purpose”. Just check out the above quote from Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Co-President of the Club of Rome. There are a couple more on our website: https://purpose.film We’ll be organising…
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Rou Reynolds: Rockstar and Systems Change Advocate
It was a particular pleasure to interview Rou Reynolds — lead singer, keyboardist and chief song writer in the band “Enter Shikari” — for our podcast “Express Change”. I had the chance to meet Rou already during our work on the documentary “Purpose”, so I knew already what a compelling combination of humble, insightful, entertaining,…
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Uploading my first film to a server in Iceland
Today is a big day. I uploaded a 33 GB file to an online space that’s managed by the people at Harpa venue in Iceland. Because that is where my documentary feature film “Purpose” will have its premiere on June 11th. The file (a 1080 HD mp4) is my finished film. It will be shown…
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Two Amazing Women On The Express Change Podcast
I’ve been so busy with the post production of the documentary feature film I am currently working on — I didn’t even find the time to write about two inspiring conversations we posted on Express Change! Katja Iversen — “Step It Up” and Katherine Trebeck — “The Clusterfuck Monologues”. Katja is the CEO of the…
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What If Our Political Debates Began With Music-Making?
For episode three of our podcast ‘Express Change’, we spoke with Mapumba Cilombo, a musician originally from Kolwezi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, who lives and works in South Africa. The conversation was very warm and uplifting, Mapumba came across as someone I’d like to have as a friend: a shiny, open, kind person…
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Learning from Tim Jackson — Episode 2 of Express Change
In 2017, Tim Jackson was the starting point. With him, I began my ‘rethinking journey’ on everything I thought I knew about economic growth. Let’s not forget: For 17 years, between 1999 and 2016, I was an advertising man, an ambassador of economic growth. When we developed the first version of our show ‘vollehalle‘ in…
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Do We Like Our Art And Our Economy Top-Down, or Bottom-Up?
Today, we are launching our first full-length ‘Express Change’-podcast episode — a conversation with Shirley Rodriguez, a New-York-based photographer and filmmaker. There is one idea that Shirley speaks about which reverberates through our entire podcast series: What is the approach to the subject matter? Is it collaborative and open, or is it top-down and closed?…
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New Podcast: ‘Express Change’
Our new podcast “Express Change” (it’s my first!) is going live today, with a short 6-minute teaser episode. You can play it right here: On this page, you’ll find links to all the platforms where the podcast is available — including Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music. Marina Gattàs at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll)…
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A Podcast Born From A YouTube Failure
The origin story of ‘Express Change’ — the podcast which I am currently working on and which will launch in early spring of 2024 — began with a failed attempt at creating a YouTube channel. For quite some time, I had wanted to build a media project of my own that I could run without…