It doesn’t happen very often, but recently, the Vision Group for Sidmouth received an email from a documentary maker – the Film and Digital Producer – Paul Maple:
We wanted to share our new climate crisis film with you. It is called “System Update – Rebooting Our Future”, and features leading academics, experts, and change‑makers from across the UK. Our film calls for a reboot of outdated systems that have have failed to appropriately respond to climate change. It’s free to watch and completely non-profit. Please feel free to share it. Here is the link to the film System Update | Rebooting Our Future (2025) – YouTube.
Best wishes, Paul: Paul Maple Producer / Director www.climate.film
Paul sent a huge thank you to UK Film Review for their thoughtful review:
They described it as “an experience that will most likely have a big impact on the viewer and encourage them to seriously consider climate change.” We’re so grateful for their feedback and thrilled to see the film sparking important conversations about the future of our planet. If you haven’t seen it yet, System Update is live now. Watch it today and be part of the movement for change!
There are lots of films out there which look at the issues around climate change – but what we really need are media which ‘sparks conversations’ – and this seems to be it.
Here’s more from a ‘System Update – Rebooting Our Future’ Film Screening:
In an era of accelerating climate change and cascading impacts, System Update offers a vital look at how transformative shifts in politics, economics, and society can protect people from climate catastrophe. The film calls for a reboot of outdated systems that have failed to respond to the climate crisis.
Producers Paul Maple and Professor James Dyke from the Global Systems Institute, University of Exeter, bring together world-leading experts and change-makers to explain why these systemic changes are critical, and how they can be achieved. The film is more than an informative piece; it’s a rallying cry for a better future – one in which the majority of people are united in calling for the changes needed to avert disaster.
“We are on course for utterly catastrophic climate disaster within the lifetimes of younger generations,” warns Professor Jason Hickel, who argues for a radical departure from today’s economic thinking in the film. This is contrasted with political leaders betting on untested technologies to reverse carbon emissions at some point in the future. System Update presents the reality: the time for action is now.
The film explores how past social movements, such as the suffragettes and the civil rights movement, have paved the way for monumental change, and shows how the same spirit can drive climate action today.
International climate lawyer Farhana Yamin joins the film to explain how people’s movements bring about social change, while climate campaigner Manda Brookman reminds viewers that “governments have to do what people want.” Max Wakefield, of climate action charity Possible, emphasises that change is possible at all levels – personal, social, and political.
Changing ‘The System’ is daunting, but it is what we must do now. System Update offers insights into how this can be achieved, making complex issues understandable and accessible to all. Three years in the making, this film is completely non-profit and free to watch. The solutions exist. For this to become reality it’s vital everyone join in this movement for change.
Have a watch: it’s less than an hour long:
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System Update | Rebooting Our Future (2025) – YouTube
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