SYNOPSIS - Disruption: Climate. Change.

SYNOPSISDISRUPTION tells the story of the greatest crisis mankind has ever faced and the movement rising to fight it byweaving together commentary from the most recognized voices analyzing climate, politics and society today withbehind-the-scenes footage of the efforts to organize The People’s Climate March - the largest climate rally in history.Featuring James Hansen, Naomi Oreskes, Van Jones, Bill McKibben, Chris Hayes, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse,Naomi Klein, Rajendra Pachauri, Justin Gillis, among others - DISRUPTION makes plain the urgency of the presentby laying bare the science behind the terrifying tipping points we are threatening to trigger, the failure of our political process to prevent these catastrophes and the need for a popular movement to challenge these realities.Drawing on insights into the power of popular movements to change the character of society from veteran organizers responsible for the most significant political demonstrations of the last half century, DISRUPTION documentsthe first steps of the fateful battle to bend the course of history.Disruption - WatchDisruption.com /// Press Kit ///pg2

DIRECTORS STATEMENTWe could not imagine a more important story than the climate crisis and the movement fighting to meet it.Disruption - WatchDisruption.com /// Press Kit ///pg3

CAST AND CREWA PF PICTURES PRODUCTION“DISRUPTION”A FILM BY KELLY NYKS AND JARED P. SCOTTPRODUCED AND DIRECTED BYKelly Nyks & Jared P. ScottFEATURINGVan JonesNaomi OreskesRicken PatelChris HayesKeya ChatterjeeSenator Sheldon WhitehouseDenis HayesGeorge MarshallJames HansenHeidi CullenBill McKibbenNaomi KleinSenator Barbara BoxerJustin GillisLeslie CaganRajendra PachauriEDITINGART DIRECTION & ANIMATIONDIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHYORIGINAL MUSICNatalia LyudinEve WeinbergTad FettigMalcolm FrancisPRODUCTION COORDINATORADDITIONAL EDITING &POST-PRODUCTION MANAGEMENTHypatia PorterKayci RothweilerADDITIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHYASSOCIATE PRODUCERMike McSweeneyZoe CouacaudAUDIO MIXCOLORASSISTANT EDITINGADDITIONAL ANIMATIONRESEARCH COORDINATORIan StynesJordan BramlettShaheen NazeraliHala Alhomoud and Madeline QuinnAndy DeLoachAdditional Footage “HOME” by Yann Arthus-Bertrand 2009 MY PLANET    ELZEVIR FILMSAdditional Footage courtesy of GreenPeace InternationalCourtesy of Yann Arthus-BertrandAdditional Footage courtesy of Dahlman Cook 2013Disruption - WatchDisruption.com /// Press Kit ///pg4

THE MOVIE & THE MOVEMENTTHE FILMADVOCACY COALITIONSeeding The Film In The AL JUSTICEFAITHINT’L/LOCAL POLICY CHANGESEPTEMBER 7THTHE PREMIEREVIEWERSHIP EWERSHIP VIRALITYSEPTEMBER 21STTHE MARCHDisruption - WatchDisruption.com /// Press Kit ///pg5

Styleguide- AEPCHANGEtemplateHISTORY OF CLIMATE401 PPM Sept 21, 2014Climate March401 PPM May 10, 2014Obama installs solar panels onWhite House roof.400CO2 PPM Passes 400 PPMMay 9, 2014390364 PPM December 11, 1997Kyoto protocol establishes legally bindingreductions in emissions of six “greenhousegases.” US is signatory to the treaty.380401 PPM May 2014West Antarctic icesheet collapse begins.353 PPM Nov 16th, 1990President George H. W.Bush signs Global ChangeResearch Act of 1990 intolaw requiring quadrennialNational Climate Assessment.CO2 PPM370360373 PPM April 5, 2001Bush withdraws from Kyoto protocol.US is no longer signatory to the treaty.346 PPM Aug 1986Reagan orders Solar panels off White House Roof.350May, 1986310 PPM Oct 28, 1956First article in NY Timesmentioning climate change.320315 PPM March 1958Charles Keeling beginsmeasuring CO2 at Manua Loa.31019551965353 PPM June 23, 1988James Hansen testifies to Congress– for the first time the signal onclimate change is now clearer thanthe noise.CO2 PPM Passes 350 PPMAccording to scientists, 350 PPM is the level of CO2for our planet “on which civilization developedand to which life on earth is adapted.”340330381 PPM Oct 12, 2007IPCC wins Nobel Prize for4th assessment.339 PPM June 20, 1979Carter puts solar panels on White House Roof.328 PPM April 22,1970First Earth Day – 20 million Americanstake to the streets.20mm 1 in 10 Americans203mm320 PPM Feb 08,1965LBJ gives message toCongress on ClimateChange and 014Disruption - WatchDisruption.com /// Press Kit ///pg6

CASTDenis Hayes served as nationalcoordinator for the first EarthDay in 1970 which saw over20 million citizens (1 in 10Americans) take to the streetsto demand a sustainableenvironment in the largestpolitical rally in American history.He directed the NationalRenewable Energy Laboratoryin the Carter Administration andserved as chair of the EnergyFoundation and the AmericanSolar Energy Society.Leslie Cagan’s renowned careerin activism began with the antiwar movement in the 1960sand has covered organizedcampaigns across a broad rangeof social issues including racialequality, gay rights, women’sliberation and abortion rights.She organized the 1982 NuclearFreeze Protest where one millionpeople demonstrated in NewYork City’s Central Park againstnuclear weapons. She is theformer national coordinator ofUnited for Peace and Justice andformer chair of Pacifica Radio.Naomi Klein, an award-winningjournalist and syndicated columnist,is author of the bestselling titlesThe Shock Doctrine: The Rise ofDisaster Capitalism and No Logo:Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. Amember of the board of directorsfor 350.org, her writing hasappeared in The New York Times,The Washington Post, Newsweek,The Los Angeles Times, TheGlobe and Mail, El Pais, L’Espresso,The New Statesman, and elsewhere.Senator Sheldon Whitehouse(RI-D), elected in 2006, is cochair and co-founder of both theBicameral Task Force on ClimateChange and the bipartisanSenate Oceans Caucus. His ‘Timeto Wake Up” speech is givenweekly to promote urgent actionin addressing the climate crisis.Van Jones, CNN’s Cross-Firehost, is a globally recognized,award-winning pioneer in humanrights and a clean energyeconomy. Author of The GreenCollar Economy and RebuildThe Dream, Jones servedas the green jobs advisor in theObama Administration. He isa distinguished visiting fellowin the Program in Science,Technology and EnvironmentalPolicy at Princeton.Naomi Oreskes, professor ofthe History of Science at HarvardUniversity, is an internationallyrenowned historian of science andauthor. Her opinion pieces haveappeared in The WashingtonPost, The Los Angeles Times, TheTimes (London), Nature,Science, The New Statesman,Frankfurter Allgemeine andelsewhere. She is the author ofnumerous titles including TheCollapse of Western Civilization:A View from the Future andMerchants of Doubt, How aHandful of Scientists Obscuredthe Truth on Issues from Tobaccoto Global Warming.Dr. Heidi Cullen serves as thechief climatologist for ClimateCentral - a non-profit journalismorganization. A member of theAmerican Geophysical Union, theAmerican Meteorological Society,the Society of EnvironmentalJournalists and the NOAAScience Advisory Board, she isa visiting lecturer at PrincetonUniversity and a senior researchfellow at Wharton. Dr. Cullenserved as The Weather Channel’sfirst on-air climate expert.Ricken Patel is co-founder andexecutive director of Avaaz.org, the largest global politicalweb movement in historywith nearly 40 million membersacross the globe. Ricken wasvoted “Ultimate Gamechangerin Politics” in 2009 by TheHuffington Post and was nameda Young Global Leader by theDavos World Economic Forum. Hehas worked for the InternationalCrisis Group, the RockefellerFoundation, the International Centerfor Transitional Justice and wasthe founding Executive Directorof ResPublica.Chris Hayes hosts “All In withChris Hayes” on MSNBC. Hisessays, articles and reviews haveappeared in The New York TimesMagazine, Time, The Nation, TheAmerican Prospect, The NewRepublic, The WashingtonMonthly, the Guardian, and TheChicago Reader. His firstbook, Twilight of the Elites:America After Meritocracy, waspublished in June 2012.Rajendra Pachauri serves aschairman of the IPCC, the panelon whose behalf he accepted theNobel Peace Prize in 2007, anddirector general of The Energyand Resources Institute. Dr. Pachauriwas the founding director ofthe Yale University Climate andEnergy Institute. He has beenawarded the “Padma Vibhushan,”India’s second-highest civilianhonor, for his services in the fieldof science and engineering.Disruption - WatchDisruption.com /// Press Kit ///pg7

CAST (CON’T)Dr. James Hansen, formerlydirector of the NASA GoddardInstitute for Space Studies, isadjunct professor at ColumbiaUniversity’s Earth Institute,where he directs a program inClimate Science, Awarenessand Solutions. Dr. Hansen isbest known for his testimonyon climate change in the 1980sthat helped raise awareness ofglobal warming. He is a memberof the U.S. National Academyof Sciences and has receivednumerous awards including theSophie and Blue Planet Prizes.George Marshall is one of theleading European experts inclimate change communications.The founder of the UK’s ClimateOutreach and InformationNetwork draws, he has over 25years in the environmentalmovement, including seniorpositions for Greenpeace USand the Rainforest Foundation.Senator Barbara Boxer (CA-D)is the first woman in US historyto chair the Senate Environmentand Public Works Committee.She also chairs the SenateCommittee on Ethics, makingher the only Senator topreside over two committeessimultaneously. She has receivednumerous awards for herenvironmental work.Keya Chatterjee is a seniordirector for Renewable Energyand Footprint Outreach atthe World Wildlife Fund. Hercommentary on climate changepolicy and sustainability issueshas been quoted in mediaoutlets nationwide, includingUSA Today, The New York Times,Fox News, The AssociatedPress, The Washington Post,and NBC Nightly News. Shehas also served as a climatechange specialist at the UnitedStates Agency for InternationalDevelopment (USAID) andworked at the NASA EarthScience Enterprise.Justin Gillis covers environmentalscience with a special focus onclimate change for The New YorkTimes. A former Knight ScienceJournalism fellow, he washonored with the John B. Oakesaward for DistinguishedEnvironmental Journalism for histen-part series titled “TemperatureRising,” which examined thefundamental tenets of manmadeclimate change.Yeb Saňo, climate changecommissioner for the Philippines,advocates for an urgentinternational response to saveisland states from the effects ofglobal warming. Prior to hisappointment as the climatechange commissioner, Sano wasthe head of the Climate andEnergy Program of the WorldWildlife Fund Philippines.Bill McKibben is an author andenvironmentalist. A founderof 350.org, his 1989 book TheEnd of Nature is regarded as thefirst book for a general audienceabout climate change and hasbeen published in 24 languages.The Schumann DistinguishedScholar in Environmental Studiesat Middlebury College and afellow of the American Academyof Arts and Sciences, he was the2013 winner of the Gandhi Prizeand the Thomas MertonPrize. Foreign Policy named himto their inaugural list of theworld’s 100 most importantglobal thinkers.John D. Sterman is the Jay W.Forrester Professor in ComputerScience and the Director of theSystem Dynamics Group at theMIT Sloan School of Management.He has pioneered the development of “management flightsimulators” of corporate andeconomic systems, which arenow used by corporations,universities and governmentsaround the world.Disruption - WatchDisruption.com /// Press Kit ///pg8