Our Climate Media
So what makes a difference?
Stories that move people—and stay with them long after they're told.
Climate change is no longer a distant threat—it is reshaping the world around us every day. Its impacts are being felt by individuals and communities across the globe, making the need for meaningful action more urgent than ever.
But data alone rarely moves people to act. Research consistently shows that simply presenting scientific facts or raising awareness is not enough to inspire individuals or communities to change.
And this is the driving force defining our Climate Media. Civic Studios is bringing climate into the stories people already watch, share, and love in cinemas, on their social media feeds, or in classrooms.
We do this across three interconnected pillars: Entertainment, Education, and Advocacy – each reaching a different target audience, together making climate action feel relatable, possible, and collective.
Mass audiences
Climate, woven into the content people already choose to watch.
Children
Building climate-aware values in children through empowering climate stories.
Decision-makers
Creative storytelling that helps shape policy and public action.
Together: climate action that feels relatable, possible, and collective.
Climate, woven into the content people already choose to watch.
The largest audiences in India are watching films, bingeing OTT shows, and scrolling social media. By weaving climate naturally into compelling, mainstream stories, we ensure the message travels through entertainment—reaching people where they already are, in ways that resonate, inspire, and spark conversation.
A INR 10 crore Climate Film Fund that backs producers and studios to build climate narratives into films, OTT, and TV. Think product placement — but for climate messaging: a theme in the plot, a choice a character makes, a reality that shapes the world on screen. Done well, audiences absorb it without ever feeling lectured.
Short, bingeable climate-focused series on Civic Studios and affiliate social media accounts, built for people to watch on their phones. They take climate themes and wrap them in relatable characters and drama people want to follow.
India's first climate fund dedicated to content creators.
We work with creators who already have the trust and attention of engaged communities. Through small grants and plug-and-play messaging toolkits, we make it easy for Instagram and YouTube content creators to incorporate climate action into the content they already produce.
It's climate communication that arrives from a familiar voice, not a brand.
Building climate-aware values in children, before habits harden through empowering climate stories.
Values formed early tend to last. The years when children are forming their sense of the world are the most powerful window to nurture climate care — not as a subject to memorise, but as a way of living. We reach kids through the stories, characters, and play helping them feel a sense of agency rather than anxiety.
Animated and live-action short films paired with plug-and-play activity kits teachers can use in classrooms. The goal isn't just to explain climate change, but to help children feel care and agency, and motivated to act.
Playful, story-led e-books, short videos, and character-driven content woven directly into the EdTech apps millions of children already use. By building climate values into everyday learning and not adding them as a separate lesson — we engage kids through high-quality content.
Creative storytelling that helps shape policy and public action
This pillar is built to engage with decision-makers, business leaders, and entrepreneurs – who have the potential to influence climate action from a systemic lens.
Supporting short films alongside strategic impact campaigns that mobilise citizens, civil society, and decision-makers around pressing climate issues. The film starts the conversation; the campaign transforms awareness into meaningful action.
Working with civil society partners, we translate evidence-based policy recommendations into compelling, short-form storytelling distributed via platforms like WhatsApp to inform decision-makers and support practical, on-the-ground implementation for public good.
For project submissions for consideration on the Civic Studios slate, please write to us at hasri.hemnani@civicstudios.com
Format: Web-series
Genre: Dramedy
Director: Parikshit Joshi
Starring: Apoorva Arora, Sonali Sachdev, Nitesh Pandey, Masood Akhtar, Aakarshan Singh, Prakhar Singh
Project stage: Releasing in Feb 2023
About
The Kashyaps think they are an open-minded family. With their own past as an interfaith couple, the parents would want their kids to marry anyone of their own choice. But when their daughter, Meher, reveals she is dating a cab driver, they face a dilemma. Now is no work really too small? And will they be able to look past their biases to give a chance to Varsha’s relationship? Nuclear Parivaar is a heartwarming, wholesome journey of family bonding, acceptance, and choice.
Key theme
The series starts a conversation on the biases we hold against people basis their class identity and profession, and highlights how young people are looking past such stereotypes and re-defining what really matters while choosing a partner- compatibility, honesty and integrity.
Genre: Romance / Drama
Project stage: In development
About
6th September 2018 marked an important milestone in the history of queer rights in India. The Supreme Court of India unanimously ruled that Section 377 was unconstitutional in criminalising sex between consenting adults.
But who were the people behind this movement- the lawyers, litigants, NGOs, and the citizens? What drove this collective to a historic victory, and what were the factions exposed along the way? This story will unpack the Indian queer movement’s journey to repeal the draconian Section 377, and reflect on where we go from here in the average queer Indian’s fight for acceptance, dignity, and love.
Key theme
This story deep dives into this successful chapter of the India queer movement to glean lessons on the challenges and possibilities in creating social movements, as well as articulate the current state and road ahead for queer rights in India.