Self exiled former president Mohamed Nasheed left for the US on Thursday to participate in a top panel on climate change, his office announced Thursday.
An Inconvenient Sequel, the followup to watershed environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth, will make its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival as a Day One screening, part of The New Climate, a program dedicated to conversations and films about environmental change and conservation.
Nasheed would join the Festival’s Power of Story panel, a collaboration between Sundance Institute and The Redford Center with Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the United States, producer Heather Rae (Frozen River, RISE), social entrepreneur and philanthropist Jeff Skoll and environmentalist and scientist Dr. David Suzuki.
The New Climate includes 14 documentaries, short films and virtual reality experiences across the Festival’s categories, and marks the first time that Festival programmers have focused efforts to highlight a specific cause.
This would be the second time Nasheed left the UK after he was allowed to leave to Britain on medical leave in an internationally brokered deal in January last year.
Nasheed was jailed on terror charges after he was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in prison over the arbitrary detention of a sitting judge while he was president.
The former president had spent a week in neighbouring Sri Lanka in August last year reportedly to plot an 'imminent' overthrow of the current government.
