Film studio from Oscar-winning director aims to stir up ‘populist anger’ over climate crisis

Yellow Dot Studios produces short-form videos to inform with genuine, righteous anger' and laugh-out-loud comedy'

The ad opens on a bucolic mountainscape, a lush, ascending piano run playing in the background. Gauzy clips from nostalgic midcentury auto ads fill the screen. See the USA in your Chevrolet," 1950s diva Dinah Shore sings.

But this isn't your average car advertisement. Soon, the title track from Singin' in the Rain begins to play, and scenes of cars burning amid wildfires and filling with water in floods start rolling. The once rollicking music becomes somber.