Burning (2021 film)
Burning is a 2021 Australian documentary film by Eva Orner and Jonathan Schaerf, which documents the massive fires of the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season.
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| Directed by | Eva Orner |
| Produced by | Jonathan Schaerf Ben Silverman Howard Owens Jason Byrne Forrest Borie |
| Starring | Greg Mullins Mike Cannon-Brookes Daisy Jeffrey Scott Morrison |
| Music by | Pascal Babare Thomas Rouch |
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| Country | Australia |
The film discusses previous bushfire seasons in Australia and compares those to the 2019–2020 fires from the perspective of firefighters, residents and the Australian people. Burning notes that the 2019 Amazon rainforest wildfires burned 2.2 million acres, the 2020 California wildfires burned 4.4 million acres, while the Australian Black Summer fires of 2019–2020 burned 59 million acres.[1] It features interviews with environmentalist Tim Flannery and author Bruce Pascoe.[2]
Politically, Burning focuses on the Youth Climate Movement during this time period and the inaction of prime minister Scott Morrison.[3]
Reception
Burning has been compared to An Inconvenient Truth for its precision and fact-based presentation of the issues by showing the perspective of firefighters, residents, young people, tech entrepreneurs, and politicians.[2] The film has a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[4]
References
- "Burning, a new documentary screening on Amazon about the 2020 bushfires, acts as an urgent call to action". 23 November 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- Mattes, Ari (8 November 2021). "Burning is the slickest film about climate change since An Inconvenient Truth – and that's its problem". The Conversation. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
- "Burning: Australia's Black Summer bushfire documentary lays out who the villains and heroes are". Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- "Burning (2021), Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
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