Carmiel Banasky
Editor-in-Chief, Head Writer
Carmiel Banasky's career spans novels, television, film, and audio. Since staffing on the Amazon show UNDONE, she created a climate-centered sci-fi podcast for Wondery, THE LAST CITY, starring Rhea Seehorn, which reached #1 in fiction. She also co-wrote a short film starring Margaret Cho, which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival, and which she’s developing into a feature.
She was a Film Independent Fellow, and an Unreasonable Conversation Climate Storytelling Fellow. As Head Writer for the nonprofit Good Energy, she co-led the creation of the Playbook for Screenwriting in the Age of Climate Change, and now curates workshops to help screenwriters integrate climate across genres with joy and humor. Prior to LA, she spent time aboard a sailing vessel in the Arctic, studying and writing about climate change, and she once tried her damndest to open a Planned Parenthood in Mississippi. She is the author of the critically acclaimed novel, "The Suicide of Claire Bishop."
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Hot Topic: Thoughts on Animating the Climate Change Dilemma
A panel opening up the conversation to how we talk about climate change and more broadly sustainability in stories. Animation can deal with stories about sustainability as well, not just purview of live action. Does it scare people or can it be done in a way to entertain and possibly inform? Do we have to be experts to add elements in? Will anyone buy it? Join the discussion on these and other pressing questions - no promises to solve the last question but planet positive stories may be the future we need. Some might argue that if you don't at least have some thought to this issue then - your content will date itself.