A razor-sharp powerplay about the dark arts of marketing behind climate denial.

It’s 1977. Glenn has a crisis on his hands. He’s had a successful career as a marketing exec. for a major Oil company, selling the fuel for the American Dream. Now he’s waking up to the damage it’s doing to the climate. In a secret meeting he consults with Bud, a slick young talent from the Tobacco industry, to figure out how to sell a toxic product – and how to live with yourself if you succeed.

Compelling, unnerving, and piercingly relevant, Smokescreen is a psychologically-charged battle of wits that unpicks how the climate crisis we face today was shaped by the invisible hands of Ad Men. Searing performances by Damon Baudin and C.S. Carroll ignite a pressure-cooker of manipulation, morality, and earth-shattering choices about controlling the narrative while the planet burns.

“It’s the job of the arts to challenge and confront, especially in difficult times. This is a power struggle played out under the flight paths. The stakes are the survival of the planet.” – Canberra Times

Photo by Novel Photographic