Take One Action Film Festival: Power Station

Join Take One Action for a screening of this inspiring documentary, followed by a galvanising post-screening conversation with local energy co-operatives and climate organisers.

As climate breakdown, the cost-of-living crisis, and fuel poverty worsen while the UK government wallows in inaction, what can we do? Take power into our own hands. “Every home a power station” is the infectious call at the heart of artist-activists Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn’s project to power their street with solar energy one home at a time – inspired by mutual aid networks that flourished during lockdown. 

Power Station is a warm, humorous, and moving portrait of Powell and Edelstyn’s quest to build community power: which is not just about buying solar panels, but reaffirming a collective belief that a different world is possible. As they knock on neighbours’ doors, harness their creativity to raise funds, and persevere through financial and logistical setbacks, what they find is hard to resist: proof that all the power we need is right here, in the people around us.

Take One Action brings communities together to harness the transformative potential of film and storytelling for collective change.