Roger Sorkin

Clean Economy Now was designed to influence public policy that sustains the momentum of the energy transition. The film shares the rationale behind a symbiotic relationship between energy and economic prosperity.

Farm Free or Die explores the economic, food security, and environmental hazards of American farming under mounting costs and a reliance on fossil-based fertilizers. Centering voices of American farmers, it was made to influence the Farm Bill by highlighting the impact of climate change on farm state constituents.

Current Revolution: A Film Series for the Energy Transition comprises two full-length films and one short targeting the public policy and investments necessary to modernize our electric grid. The series explores various aspects of energy transition, including how workers in the combustion engine industry can adapt to the future.

Tidewater explores regional efforts to adapt to rising waters and sinking land. This film was used to convene bipartisan members of the Armed Services Committees of the U.S. House and Senate to authorize defense legislation.

The Burden interrogates fossil fuel dependence as our greatest national security threat and the military’s leading role in the transition to clean energy. It was successfully used to achieve a number of successful defense policies and convene military leaders internationally on the importance of reducing fossil fuel dependence.

I collaborated with the sustainability and communications teams of a major U.S. airport, not only to tell the story of their sustainability and resilience successes, but to help them all become better communicators on the subjects.

Roger worked with a leading environmental nonprofit to design and produce a social media video series to defend the progress of the energy transition.