Leapfrog

The world has seen dramatic changes in recent decades:

The exponential increase of knowledge and technological innovations project hope, but Global Warming and persistent human deprivations generate fear and despair in a rapidly globalizing world.

Can the hopes be realized and the fears be erased? Would the changes open up new development trajectories, different than any seen in the past for the prospects of the "least developed" segments of humanity? Or would the changes impose new sets of constraints?

We present "Leapfrog".



Leapfrog - Opening Nine Minutes in HIGH DEFINITION from shoaib niko andrew igor on Vimeo.

....the first rectangle above is the opening nine minutes of the film. Once you hit play, click on the HD button in the right hand corner of the rectangle, and you will be asked if you want to watch the film in High-Definition. If Yes, you will be taken to another screen, where you can turn on the HD feature. The second rectangle below (with the Afghan girls on the cover of the video) is the final nine minutes and exciting conclusion of the film. It is also in HD. The last portion (the private box below) is the entire film (66 minutes) played in standard resolution. Now LEAPFROG!


Untitled from Shoaib Igor Andrew Niko on Vimeo.


Entire film below (email leapfrog.themovie@gmail.com for access)


Untitled from Shoaib Igor Andrew Niko on Vimeo.

**Leapfrog is a work in progress, and will be fine-tuned over the summer and fall '09 semester. Screenings coming soon! Email Niko Cunningham at thenerdproject (at) gmail (dot) com to learn more!

Credits and Collaboration:

Interviews from:

Mike Gravel, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Former US Senator


Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University Professor of Economics


Sir Partha S. Dasgupta, Cambridge University Professor of Economics


Sanjay G. Reddy, Columbia University – Barnard College, Professor of
Economics


Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute, Quetelet
Professor of Sustainable Development, Health Policy and Management


Peter Eisenberger, Columbia University Professor of Earth & Climate
Sciences, Co-chair of the Senior Advisory Board of Next Generation
Science Center


Elliott Sclar, Columbia University Professor Graduate School of
Architecture Planning &Preservation


Peter deMenocal, Columbia University Professor of Earth &
Environmental Sciences


Arthur Lerner-Lam, Doherty Senior Research Scientist in the
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Associate Director -


Graciela Chichilnisky, United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO); Professor of Information and
Resources; Director Program on Information and Resources


Nicholas Moore Eisenberger , Managing Principal GreenOrder Inc.


Dr. Barnett Rubin, Director of Studies and Senior Fellow Center on
International Cooperation at the New York University


Ashok Nigam, UNICEF, Policy Adviser, Division of Evaluation, Policy
& Planning


Cassidy Ann Johnson, Columbia University Postdoctoral Research
Fellow of Earth Institute


Klaus S. Lackner, Columbia University, Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar
Worzel Professor of Geophysics, Earth & Environmental Engineering


Glenn-Marie Lange, Columbia University Adjunct Research Scholar of
Earth Institute


Fang He, Columbia University, PhD Candidate


Niko Cunningham, GS Student Body President, Columbia University


Marc A. Levy, Columbia University, Deputy Director of Center for
International Earth Science Information Network


Richard Dent, Co-Director of 11th Hour Action


Stephan McGuire, Associate Producer of 11th Hour



Dr. Stuart Gaffin, Associate Research Scientist Center for Climate
Systems Research (NASA)


Jeronim Capaldo, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", PhD
Candidate


Akbar Noman, World Bank


Archived Interview Footage from:

(all courtesy of TED.com)

Ashraf Ghani, Former Finance Minister of
Afghanistan

John Doerr, Partner at KPCB

Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org

Al Gore, Former VP of United States


Music by:

Shoaib Harris
U2
Radiohead
Coldplay
Sigur Ros
Mogwai
Clint Mansell


Opening Green Line Sequence by:

K&TKW Ghent Ad Agency
Kult Production Company


Opening Speech by:

President Lyndon Baines Johnson "The Great Society"

Outro Photos by:

youtube user "sunflowersunshowers"