
To hope, or not to hope?
That was a question thrown up in a recent Zoom panel at the Sundance Film festival, organised by the National Resources Defence Council’s Rewrite the Future initiative and moderated by actress Zazie Beetz. And the answer given by Scott Z Burns, writer of Contagion and An Inconvenient Truth, seemed to be: 'Stuff hope.' Of course that’s not quite what he said… Resist the studio push for ‘hopeful stories’ What Scott Burns actually said was that he was trying to escape what is be