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managing director of DartmouthFilms,who specialise in the production and distribution of  \ndocumentaries which aim to have an impact.One of Dartmouth's firstproductions-The End of the Line(2009)-pioneered this genre offilmmaking.Recent films have included Lorna Tucker's Someone'sDaughter,Someone's Son(2024)Josh Appignanesi's My Extinction(2023)and Edinburgh Film Festival selected Women Behind the Wheel(2022).This year he was one of the producers of Dan Edelstyn andHilary Powell's Sheffield DocFest selected Power Station.Heis aformer chair of the Sheffield DocFest,was the founding chair of Doc  \nSociety and served for sixyears as a trustee of the Grierson Trust.He is currently a trustee of theWincott Foundation and Picture People MSP.  \nEmma Lawrance  \nEmma Lawrance is the Director of the Climate Cares Centre at ImperialCollege London.She also leads the Wellcome-funded global initiativeConnecting Climate Minds and holds an AXA Climate and HealthFellowship on \"Building Youth Resilience by Understanding andIntervening on the Mental Health Impacts of Climate Awareness\",working with young people in Australia,Trinidad &Tobago and thePhilippines.Emma works to understand and act on the deep ways inwhich our minds and our environments are connected.This includesworking with people across many different backgrounds globally,  \nincluding the WHO and UNFCCC,BBC journalists and script writers,ministers,the World Bank andWorld Economic Forum.She has a background in chemistry,physics,science communication,neuroscience and mental health research,and loves being outside as much as possible,especially inher homelands of Kaurna Country in the Adelaide hills,Australia.  \nKelly Matheson  \nKelly has been working with Our Children's Trust since our inception,joining the staff in 2022 to deepen the impact of our global program.Akey goal of the global work is to ensure that courts around the world usethe best available science in making decisions about the future ofhumanity.This work is implemented numerous briefs with regional andinternational courts to advance the dual analysis of law and scienceincluding the European,Inter-American,and African Courts of HumanRights,the International Court of Justice,and the international Tribunal  \nGlobal Campusof Human Rights  \nfor the Law of the Sea.Kelly is currently supporting preparation for an 8-week trial in La Rose v.HisMajesty the King and collaborating with partners to develop atrio of cases in Latin America.She hascurated a5-part series for Open Global Rights,\"Overturning 1.5℃:Calling for the Science Turn inRights-Based Climate Litiqation”in collaboration with climate experts,litigators,scholars,and leadersaround the globe and co-authored an editorial,Verein KlimaSeniorinnen,Careme,and DuarteAgostinho:How Science Can Save Humanityin Strasbourg Observers.  \nPreviously,Kelly worked at WITNESS,an international human rights organization,where shedeveloped a strategic communication plan which included co-directing,producing,and distributing aseries of ten short films written by Our Children Trust's youth plaintiffs titled,Stories of TRUST:Callingfor Climate Recovery.  \nFollowing this campaign Kelly served on Our Children's Trust Board from 2015-2021.Some of herother publications include\"The Case for Climate Visuals in the Courtroom\"in Litigating the ClimateEmergency:How Human Rights,Courts,and Legal Mobilization Can Bolster Climate ActioninCambridge Press(2023)and\"The Role of Mobile Technologv in Documenting International Crimes:The Affaire Castro et Kizito in the Democratic Republic of Congo\"in the Journal of InternationalCriminal Justice(2021).She also authored two ground-breaking practical guides:the Video asEvidence Field Guide and Video as Evidence:Environmental Defense Guidefor WITNESS(2015 and2023).  \nKelly serves on the Advisory Board at the University of California Berkeley's Human 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