Documentary on climate change wins award
A boy catches fish in a dried-up pond near the banks of the Ganges river Allahabad, India, June 4, 2015. PHOTO: REUTERS
Voices from the Roof of the World Season 2 – an international documentary on climate change – has won the 2023 John B Oakes Award.
The Oakes jury has said that the international documentary series presents an unusually clear and intimate look at the impact of climate change on the people and wildlife living in the Himalayas, one of the world's highest mountains.
The documentary series has been produced by nine independent filmmakers from Central and South Asia through Andrew Tkach.
The 10-episode season was aired on Express TV in Pakistan and is available on YouTube.
The series, based on science and illustrated with dramatic footages of melting landscapes, shows the people most affected by the rising global temperatures, and how the climate change has turned their hardships into perils.
The dangers faced by these people include catastrophic floods from glacial eruptions, deadly avalanches, water shortages, new epidemics and hunting of livestock by hungry snow leopards on a large scale.