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The Burning Season Principal Author: Cathy Henkel, Other Authors: Jeff Canin, Trish Lake, Roger Graef RM 2014006575 1902 CRICOS No. 00213J Queensland University of Technology Research Statement Research Background The Burning Season is a practice-led research project that emerged from my personal concern about climate change and the urge to explore solutions using the documentary form. The film aims to illustrate complex concepts, such as carbon trading through the use of Balinese shadow puppet motifs to situate the mechanism in the Indonesian political and environmental context and used animation to distil the complex process in an accessible form for international audiences of any age. I also developed Balinese-style animations to depict the impact of deforestation on climate change and the growth of global carbon markets. Research Contribution The film, study guide and website were the first publicly released documentary outputs to explore the impact of deforestation on climate change and to depict a carbon trading deal in action. The DVD is widely used in the education system to encourage young people to take their own action in response to deforestation and climate change. The film was translated into Bahasa and distributed in Indonesia. The documentary was recently purchased by Pivot TV, a new "disruptive TV" service in the USA focusing on social advocacy, and formed the basis of a subsequent deal with Microsoft Partners in Learning to make a follow-up film about young people and climate change, which resulted in Rise of the Eco-Warriors. CRICOS No. 00213J Queensland University of Technology Research Statement (Continued) Research Significance The documentary was widely distributed globally, including public television broadcasts in Australia, UK, USA and Canada. It won an IF award for Best Documentary and was selected for many prestigious festivals including Tribeca Festival, New York and One World Film Festival, Prague. It was nominated for the Gold Panda Award, Sichuan Festival, China, and an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary on a Business Topic. a university for the real world R CRICOS No. 00213J