Why Sci-FI?

Science Fiction Films are usually scientific, visionary, comic-strip-like, and imaginative, and usually visualized through fanciful, imaginative settings, expert film production design, advanced technology gadgets (i.e., robots and spaceships), scientific developments, or by fantastic special effects. Sci-fi films are complete with heroes, distant planets, impossible quests, improbable settings, fantastic places, great dark and shadowy villains, futuristic technology and gizmos, and unknown and inexplicable forces. Many other SF films feature time travels or fantastic journeys, and are set either on Earth, into outer space, or (most often) into the future time. (filmsite.org)
My film will be set in the far future, a year undisclosed and will follow a plot that is both fanciful but wildly realistic. My movie is set post-apocalypse Earth. Solara, my sole character will serve as the hero (both to herself and the human race) while the movie will include an impossible quest and improbably setting, rendering it Science Fiction. I have confidently chosen this genre, although a challenge, because of the utmost importance for our race to realize how we need to take care of this Earth. 
Sci-Fi films attract an audience aged 17-29, primarily men, but including both genders. I chose to create a sci-fi film in order to cater to this audience, most popularly known as Millennials, who hold the future of this planet in their hands. I feel if I present this film to those who have the opportunity to have the biggest impact for our future generations, they will take the initiative to make a change. 
Although my story is fictional, it is highly plausible, considering the current deterioration of our planets ecosystem. Within the past year, the Great Barrier Reef, the largest living thing on Earth, was pronounced near death. Half of the world's wet lands have been lost since the 1900s. During the past 40 years, 20% of the Amazon Rainforest, home to more than half of this planet's life and produces over 20% of this Earth's oxygen- Brazil has just sold the rest of the diverse rain forest to mining companies and big agriculture. If humans keep acting so selfishly reckless, this planet's death is imminent and approaching fast. My goal with this film is not to entertain, but to educate. 
I just hope somebody listens.



Source:
"Science Fiction Film." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 20 Mar. 2017. Web. 21 Mar. 2017.

"Science Fiction Films." An Award-winning, Unique Resource of Film Reference Material for Film Buffs and Others, with Reviews of Classic American-Hollywood Films, Academy Awards History, Film Posters. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Mar. 2017.

Wallace, Written By Scott. "Amazon Rain Forest, Deforestation, Forest Conservation - National Geographic Magazine." National Geographic. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2017.