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Hollywood Climate Summit, Jackson Wild Set Finalists For New Climate Story Awards

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August 18, 2026

Hollywood Climate Summit and Jackson Wild have set finalists for their first joint awards ceremony Nov. 10 in Los Angeles spanning narrative film & TV from Train Dreams and Hacks, to unscripted and documentary This is a Gardening Show and Nuisance Bear.

Selected from over 500 global submissions, finalists represent “the most impactful, innovative, and inspiring storytelling,” the groups said.

Projects span the past two years. The joint awards will likely run every other year to ensure sufficient environmental narrative content.

HCS is the host of an increasingly popular annual summit in LA and provides a year-round community connecting entertainment professionals with climate experts. Jackson Wild, based in Jackson, Wyoming, has been a global leader in nature and conservation media for over 30 years and hosted its own annual awards. The organizations joined forces on the awards earlier this year, expanding Jackson Wild’s mostly documentary and social content to narrative features and television, podcasts, games, digital media and comedy.

“In this time of increasing environmental urgency, we must amplify and support the creatives finding new depths in climate and nature storytelling, and expand our thinking as an industry on what that storytelling can look like. This partnership expands that genre-bending creative spectrum, connects the communities making it happen, and puts a shared vision of a better world at the center,” said Heather Fipps, Executive Director of Hollywood Climate Summit.

“This year’s finalists invite audiences into the natural world through film, games, podcasts, and so much more, each one a testament to the extraordinary quality of storytelling happening right now,” said Christie Quinn, Executive Director of Jackson Wild. “Reaching people across genres and formats has never been more vital to the future of our planet, and celebrating the best of today’s storytelling is how we inspire what comes next.”

Finalists

NARRATIVE FEATURE

Bugonia —Element Pictures / Square Peg / CJ Enm Production in association with Pith and Fruit Tree Enterprises, Focus Features

Remarkably Bright Creatures — Night Owl Stories, Netflix

The Wild Robot — DreamWorks Animation, Universal Pictures

Train Dreams — Black Bear Pictures, Kamala Films, Netflix

Twisters — Amblin Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures

NARRATIVE SHORT

Heat Me — ABCinema, in co-production with Orama Productions.

MotherEarth Inc. — Co-directed by Heather Mingo and Isabel Siragusa

Two Breaths — A film by Kateryna Kurganska

Wowsabout — The Jim Henson Company, in association with PBS

TV SERIES – SCRIPTED DRAMA

Families Like Ours — Netflix (Denmark)

Lead Children — Netflix (Poland)

Radioactive Emergency — Netflix

The Last of Us — HBO Max

TV SERIES – SCRIPTED COMEDY

Four Seasons — Universal Television, Netflix

Hacks — Universal Television in association with Paulilu, First Thought Productions, Fremulon Productions, 3 Arts Entertainment

North of North — Netflix

Rage — Producciones Mandarina for HBO Max

TV SERIES – UNSCRIPTED

Building Outside the Lines — Painless TV, Magnolia Network

Réabhlóid Ar Chul An Tí / F* the Lawn— New Decade Films, Pier to Pier Media, SEETREE GmbH

The Wild Ones — Offspring Films, AppleTV+

This is a Gardening Show — Radical Media, Netflix

VIDEO GAME

Flock Around — Secret Plan Games

The Guardian of Nature — Inlusio Interactive

Planet Pigeon — Cracked Cubes and Thirteen Productions LLC, Minecraft EDU

Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) — Unreliable Narrators

COMEDY SPECIAL

Climate Science Translated — Houseband, Beyond The Deck, Utopia Bureau, Climate Science Breakthrough

Funeral for a Glacier — Day Two Productions, Green Olive Creative

Green Goddesses Take New York — UnchainedTV, CaveLight Films

Slick Burn — Petty Victories

DIGITAL SERIES

Climate Town — Climate Town Productions

Do You Even Care? — Yellow Dot Studios

Slick — Carmack Productions

Study Hall Sustainability — Complexly, Arizona State University

The Firepit — United By Nature (powered by Nature Is Nonpartisan), Shelton Films

PODCAST

The Climate Denier’s Playbook — 400 Parts Per Million LLC

Sabotage — Good Luck Media, Yellow Dot Studios

The Last City — Wondery

Threshold — Aurice Productions

JACKSON WILD FINALISTS BY CATEGORY

FEATURE

Checkpoint Zoo — Ghost Robot, Appian Way, Noah Media Group, After Hours, Abramorama

Derek vs Derek — The Slate Works and Damer Films

Nuisance Bear — MUBI, A24

We, The Hated — A Firebreak Films production in association with Passion Planet, BFI/Doc Society, Bertha Foundation, Distributed by Propagate

LIMITED SERIES

Animal Oddballs — National Geographic, Wildstar Films, and Maximum Effort

Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — BBC Studios in association with Apple

Secrets of the Bees — National Geographic and Silverback Films

Wild Side of the Moon — Produced by Humble Bee Films for Sky and Love Nature

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

Between Breaths — A Film by Florian Ledoux and Jozef Kaut

Chuuraa — A film by Evgenia Arbugaeva. Supported by National Geographic Society.

Plant Life — Speculative Films, Tangled Bank Studios, Catapult Film Fund, Berkeley Film Foundation

SILA — National Geographic Society, TENT Film

Wild East — Maia Wikler Productions, Sideyard Studios

INVESTIGATIVE

Rhapsody on the Outlaw Ocean — A Film by Ian Urbina and William Segal

Sentient — In Films Pty Ltd, Dogwoof, Madman Entertainment

The Last Place on Earth — Oceanic Preservation Society

PEOPLE & NATURE

Bucks Harbor — Two Wolves Films, National Geographic Society

The Tale of Silyan — National Geographic Documentary Films, Ciconia Film, Concordia Studio, The Corner Shop

To Hold a Mountain — Directed by Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić, Produced by Biljana Tutorov for Wake Up Films, In association with Points North Institute, Catapult Film Fund, Chicken & Egg Films. With the support of InMaat, IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund, Doc Society, Meadow Fund, Secret Sauce Media, Eurimages, Film Centre of Montenegro, Film Center Serbia, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, CNC, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur région, Slovenian Film Centre, Viba Film, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, UNIQA SEE Future Foundation

PLANET IN CRISIS

The Caldera — ITVS, Independent Lens, Grasso Films

The Plastic Detox — The Production credits should be: A Netflix Documentary | An OPS Productions, An L&T Productions, With Minderoo Pictures and Concordia Studio, In association with City Hill Arts, Bay Bridge Productions and Diamond Docs

Time and Water — National Geographic Documentary Films, Sandbox, Signpost Pictures, Ninmah Foundation, Compass Films

We, The Hated — A Firebreak Films production in association with Passion Planet, BFI/Doc Society, Bertha Foundation. Distributed by Propagate

CINEMATOGRAPHY

A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough — A Netflix Documentary | A Silverback Films Production
Cinematographers: Ben Cherry, Ewan Dryburgh, Benjamin Sadd and Toby Strong

Animal Oddballs: Daringly Different — National Geographic, Wildstar Films, and Maximum Effort
Cinematographers: Chris Watts, Simon De Glanville, Jeff Hester, Tom Rowland, Christian Marot, Andrew Studer, Olly Jelley, Hayes Baxley, Connor Gallagher

Muskox: Survival in the Arctic — Stay Wild Studio, Distributed by Off the Fence
Cinematographer: Chris Schmid

Secrets of the Bees: The Hive — National Geographic and Silverback Films
Cinematographers: John Brown, Alastair MacEwen

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‘Weight To Date’ Reality Series Set At Netflix From IPC

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August 18, 2026

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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is exploring the world of dating following extreme weight loss in its latest non-scripted order.

Deadline understands the streamer has greenlit Weight To Date from The Intellectual Property Corporation (IPC).

The deal came only a few weeks after Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman, who are now co-CEOs of the company, exited Sony Pictures Television, where they were President and Co-President of the studio’s nonfiction arm. It marks the pair’s first sale since going independent.

Weight To Date is a “dating format that follows singles during and after extreme weight loss as they navigate dating, identity, and the search for lasting love”.

The project is more in the soft format space, more akin to Indian Matchmaking, the IPC-produced series that ran for three seasons on Netflix, which followed Sima Taparia, a marriage consultant from Mumbai.

It is essentially a docu-format, which will follow around ten to twelve people, some of whom have lost an extraordinary amount of weight and after re-examining their own identity are looking for love and are back on the dating scene. In that regard, it has similarities to Love on the Spectrum, the Netflix series that has won seven Emmys, including the award for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Program, twice.

The topic is clearly in the zeitgeist and has been explored across a number of TikTok videos, particularly relevant since the growth of GLP1s.

Holzman and Saidman exec produce the series alongside Jeanne Begley.

It also marks the latest non-scripted series for Netflix, which has been on something on a buying spree lately. Deadline broke the news of The Leftovers, from Jersey Shore producer SallyAnn Salsano, which follows a group of friends from the Garden State, and Arizona Hot, from Banijay’s Brightspot Content, which follows friends from the Grand Canyon State.

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Woody Harrelson Pays Tribute to “Brilliant” Rob Reiner in Sarajevo

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August 18, 2026

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A soccer penalty shootout, an (impressive) Elvis Presley impersonation and a bottle of Bushmills Irish whiskey were all on the agenda at Woody Harrelson‘s Sarajevo masterclass on Tuesday afternoon.

The three-time Oscar nominee graced the stage at the Bosnian film festival for a conversation with film critic Neil Young, hours before Harrelson’s Honorary Heart of Sarajevo ceremony, set to celebrate his decades-spanning contributions to cinema.

At the top of the conversation, Young asked the Natural Born Killers (1994), No Country for Old Men (2007) and The Hunger Games (2012) star about playing 36th U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson in Rob Reiner‘s 2016 film LBJ. The screened clip showed Harrelson, in character, talking on the phone in the White House. He explains to the Haggar Clothing Co. representative on the line that he is “well-endowed” and needs his pants tailoring.

“By the way, that was verbatim,” said Harrelson as the clip finished. “The call was recorded, so that’s exactly what he said.” When Young probed him on why he opted for an LBJ biopic, the actor replied: “I wanted to do it because Rob Reiner asked me to do it, and I really wanted to work with Rob. I just love working with Rob Reiner. I think he was absolutely brilliant, and I think he made a wonderful film.”

As Young took Harrelson — and a feverish audience — through the defining features of his early career, including White Men Can’t Jump (1992) and The People vs Larry Flynt (1996), the pair entertained by coaxing Harrelson into his famed Elvis Presley impersonation, the same bit that prompted the star’s High School crush to persuade him into trying out for the school play. “So yeah, I tried out for a play because Robin Rogers wanted me to.”

Harrelson even regaled attendees with the story of how he landed the role of Woody Boyd on NBC’s Cheers in the 1980s. He had been set for a starring role in the Broadway production of Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues, but he suddenly found himself in the audition room in front of Cheers co-creators Glen and Les Charles and the “possibly the greatest sitcom director in history,” Jimmy Burrows. “Just as she’s opening the door, I blow my nose. I walk in the room, ‘Honk!’ and the entire room burst out laughing. Jimmy Burrows told me later, ‘I knew you had it right then,’” he said.

“I asked everybody,” Harrelson continued about weighing up Broadway and TV. “‘Should I stay true and go back and do Broadway, or should I kind of sell out and do television?’ They said, ‘Do the television show. Do Cheers.’ And my whole life changed because of that.”

After a small sports break showcasing Harrelson’s expert penalty kick in the 2010 SoccerAid match, Harrelson spoke about knowing some of the most prolific actors in the world, including Bill Murray, his Zombieland co-star — “in between the takes he would be sitting there and he’d be writing and thinking, he was constantly working” — and Leonardo DiCaprio: “Leo DiCaprio is such a hard worker, and all of these guys — they’re not just relying on their good looks and charm.”

When Young told Harrelson that he had even managed to win over the hard-to-impress Lauren Bacall, who called the Texan native “a really nice guy,” Harrelson was visibly surprised. “I never heard that before,” he said.

Later, as Young asked Harrelson about receiving his first Oscar nomination for The People vs Larry Flynt, they talked a little about Jerry Maguire — a film Harrelson passed on. “That was a big fuck up,” he admitted to a giggling audience. “They didn’t wanna show me the money! No, I don’t know what the reason was,” he joked. “I fucked up because I read the script, Jim [James] Brooks produced it and I called him and said, ‘Jim, I don’t think anybody’s going to care about this agent.’ He goes, ‘I think you’re wrong, buddy. I think you’re wrong.’ And then about four days later, suddenly Tom Cruise is going to do this part,” said Harrelson. “And I realized, ‘Oh, I think I was wrong.’” Cruise would go on to earn an Oscar nomination for Jerry Maguire, alongside Harrelson that year.

The men opened a bottle of Irish whiskey early in the conversation, in honor of Harrelson’s 1997 war drama Welcome to Sarajevo, which is screening ahead of his Honorary Heart ceremony. “For 10 years old, it’s quite good!” said the actor. “It’s grown a lot [since] back then,” Harrelson continued about coming back to the Bosnian capital. Michael Winterbottom’s film was shot only a year after the city’s siege ended. “We had a curfew and it was very sparse, comparatively. It’s alive and bustling 1787068467, and it’s incredible, the metamorphosis.”

The 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival runs Aug. 14-21. Read our conversation with Harrelson’s fellow Honorary Heart recipient, Asghar Farhadi, here.

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Nicolas Altmayer & Dior Executive Mathilde Favier Die In Car Accident

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August 18, 2026

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French film producer Nicolas Altmayer and Dior PR executive Mathilde Favier have died in a car accident in France, local authorities announced this afternoon.

French media reports state the couple was killed around 4 pm on Monday on a road in the northern part of the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. The couple’s car “collided with a heavy goods vehicle traveling in the opposite direction, while they were overtaking another vehicle,” the local police chief told AFP. Local authorities have opened an investigation into involuntary manslaughter by a driver to determine the circumstances of the crash.

Favier, 57, was the public relations director for the Dior brand, and Altmayer, 61, was one of France’s most prolific indie producers. He headed the company Mandarin & Compagnie with his brother Éric. Their credits include François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful, Summer of 85, and The New Girlfriend. Altmayer was also behind popular titles like Michel Hazanavicius’ OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies. And, more recently, Julia Ducournau’s Alpha. In 2017, Nicolas and Éric Altmayer received the honorary Daniel Toscan du Plantier César Award, which honors French producers.

In a statement on X, Ozon wrote: “Shock and sadness. Nicolas Altmayer was a great producer. A supporter and a friend.”

Dior CEO Delphine Arnault described Favier as “an exceptional woman whose infectious joy, talent and loyalty were exemplary” in a post on Instagram.

“She embodied the Dior woman so perfectly. During these tragic times, my thoughts are with her family, her children, Héloïse and Carlo, her mother, her sisters Victoire and Pauline, her uncle, her many friends, and the team she loved so dearly. Her energy, her smile, and her elegance will be sorely missed,” the post ended.