The Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) promotes the expansion of this awarded production, which will present its novelties in Madrid and Barcelona during the month of June.
The Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) and The Science in Your World (LCATM), have announced the expansion of the documentary series ‘Stories of Global Change’. After the success of the first documentary dedicated to the Ebro Delta, which in 2024 obtained the first prize of scientific dissemination of the CSIC and several recognitions in film festivals, the project grows now with three new chapters focused on Doñana, the Aragonese Pyrenees and Menorca.
With the new premieres, the co-production, directed by Roberto Torres (LCATM), and which has the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), consolidates itself as a powerful tool to understand the global environmental crisis through concrete cases in Spain treated with an inclusive cinematographic narrative that fuses academic rigor and social commitment.
New territorial premieres
The deployment of these new documentaries will begin in Madrid the next 17th of June at 19:00 h, specifically in the National Museum of Natural Sciences. There will take place the official pre-premiere of the chapter dedicated to Doñana, an event framed in the V Conferences of Scientific Culture and Citizen Science of the CSIC. The session will include a conversation with the participation of the creative and scientific team, as well as some of the characters of the documentary, and will feature the intervention of Jordi Camp (ICM-CSIC), scientific supervisor of the series, as one of the main speakers of the meeting.
After the presentation in the capital, the activity will move to Barcelona, where the ICM has programmed two exclusive premieres free and open to the general public. On June 22nd the chapter focused on the Pyrenees will be screened, an episode that analyses the reintroduction of species and the management of the high mountain before global change.
One week later, on June 29th, it will be the turn of the documentary about Menorca, where the delicate balance between development models and sustainability in a Biosphere Reserve is explored. To attend these sessions in Barcelona, soon a system of previous registration will be enabled through the usual communication channels of the institute.
Voices of the project
Esther Garcés, responsible for the scientific content from the ICM-CSIC, highlights that:
“With these new chapters we not only seek to explain the science of global change, but to humanize it so that the spectator understands that local communities are an essential part of the ecosystems that are intended to be protected.”
In this same line, Jordi Camp underlines that: “The series poses an integrating look over territories in tension, providing scientific solidity to social and political debates where conservation models often clash with the ways of life rooted in the territory.”
For his part, the director Roberto Torres explains:
“We have consolidated the original narrative of the first chapter, where the choral protagonism of the different agents of the social and natural ecosystem generates a transversal dialogue that allows the public to empathize with related realities and live an immersive cinematographic experience, introducing the scientific evidence to human and mobilizing perspectives.”
Through the voice of the primary sector, scientific personnel and activists, ‘Stories of Global Change’ reaffirms the commitment of the ICM-CSIC with contemporary environmental communication. The series transcends conventional dissemination questioning our place within nature and proposing viable future models for territories as emblematic as vulnerable, inviting to a profound reflection about adaptation in a world in constant transformation.