United Nations: UN75 | Shaping Our Future Together

United Nations UN75: Shaping Our Future Together

Global audio network Squeak E. Clean Studios Creative Director Simon Lister has teamed up with the United Nations to launch the intergovernmental organization’s 75th Anniversary film. Written and directed by Lister, and edited by Andrew Holmes, the film spotlights priority global concerns uncovered by the world’s largest survey on the public opinion of climate change, which the UN launched in January 2020. Squeak E. Clean Studios also crafted the music and sound mix on the film.

Juxtaposed against photos and footage of the trials populations faced in 2020–globe-spanning fires, the coronavirus pandemic, riots, warfare, and more–the powerful film leads with the UN’s original survey question: “If you could choose one thing to say to the UN, to world leaders, about the future, what would that be?” Within boardrooms, classrooms and congressional halls, the film showcases a diverse range of audiences’ top answers and challenges, from fighting climate change and increasing global sanitation to decreasing conflict and violence, and many others, escalating into a crescendo of optimism and hope for society’s future worldwide.

UN75 Production Credits
Creative Director: Simon Lister @scilsta
Editor: Andrew Holmes @andreweditor
Executive Producer: Emma Hodge
Music: Jesse Watt
Sound Mix: Simon Lister
Grade: Olivier Fontenay’s – Heckler HQ
Translation: Ethno Link
Voice Over: Angela Mahletjie – Moore Creative Partners

Photographs & Video Credits
Felipe Dana
Michael Christopher Brown
Andrew Guilty
David Lazar
Fabio Buccareli
Mudslide Jan Egil Bakkeby via ViralHog
Ringo Chui
Martine Perrett
Jimmy Nelson
GMB Akash
Matthew Abbott
Patrick Brown
Hayley Sadler
Nikki Denholm
Ami Vatale
Untitled Films
Getty Images
Film Supply
Amber Mountain Studios
Tornado Troopers
Shutterstock
Simon Lister
Tim Georgeson