It's easy to feel overwhelmed about issues to do with climate change. It's even easier to lose site of the fact that change happens when individuals get together and demand it.

The Inverell Community Gardens is delighted to invite the community to 2040, an exciting documentary that will screen at the Inverell Town Hall on Friday, September 6 at 6pm.

The evening is a fundraiser for the gardens and is designed to inspire hope.

2040 is an uplifting film that takes us on a journey to explore what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we simply embraced the best solutions already available to us.

Award-winning filmmaker and actor, Damon Gameau, will travel to Inverell to present his vision for a brighter future.

Gameau took on a similar task a few years ago, creating That Sugar Film, which went on to become Australia's highest grossing documentary of all time.

In making 2040, Gameau says that he wanted to give people something to fight for instead of something to fight against.

"I made this film for my daughter and for her generation. I made it for parents and for anyone feeling overwhelmed or losing hope.

"It offers up a reframing of our ecological predicament as an opportunity to draw on our ingenuity and to rise to the challenge with creativity and empathy. It is a call to all to share our visions and dreams of a better world. If we don't, we are likely to become a part of someone else's vision," says Damon.

Gameau says if the world has deteriorated so quickly, we can restore it at a similarly rapid pace.

"If you think about how different the world was 20 years ago, even the type of mobile phones we were using, these changes can happen really, really quickly."

2040 is a story of hope that looks at the very real possibility that humanity could reverse global warming and improve the lives of every living thing in the process. It is a positive vision of what 'could be', instead of the dystopian future we are so often presented.

"It is clear we have everything we need right now to create a better 2040," says Damon.

In three years of research and interviews, what emerged were solutions that improve health, income equality, security and communities with the bonus of drastically reducing emissions and regenerating ecosystems.

The world is facing its shadow in a variety of ways. We can remind ourselves and our children that a shadow cannot exist without a source of light always being present.

"What else is there? This is the topic," Damon says, "Because if we don't get this right, there is no other film worth making."

Don't miss one of the most inspiring events to be held in Inverell this year. Tickets are available online through Sticky Tickets: www.stickytickets.com.au/90642/ or in person at Gwymac (Country Fair Building, 3/18 Sweaney St) or at the Inverell Tourist Information Centre.

Food and drinks available during interval. What's your 2040? Join Damon in the conversation after the film about our vision for our community in 2040.

Damon Gameau will also be appearing at Pulse of the Earth - A Festival of Regeneration Bingara, September 6-8.