Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan and Akshay Kumar among those to join UN’s ‘We The People’

Today, the Global Goals Campaign launches “We the People” – a crowd sourced film where everyone is invited to join the world’s biggest cast and star alongside some of the world’s biggest names. The film will be unveiled on the Google homepage when the Global Goals are adopted on the 25^th September.

From India, A R Rahman, Aamir Khan, Akshay Kumar and Hrithik Roshan have already contributed and crowd sourced footage for We the People. 

They will be joined by other artists and activists such as Alice Braga, Ananda Everingham, Anastacia, Ashton Kutcher, Avan Jogia, Becca, Bill and Melinda Gates, Cate Blanchett, Chelsea Islan, Christina Hendricks, Criolo, Daniel Craig, Diamond, Diego Luna, G.E.M., Gilberto Gil, James Chau, Jamie Oliver, Jennifer Lawrence, Jennifer Lopez, Kate Winslet, UN Messenger of Peace Lang Lang, Liverpool Football Club captain Jordan Henderson and team mates, Lenine, Mia Maestro, Mafikizolo, Mads Mikkelsen, Mena Suvari,  UNDP Champion Michelle Yeoh, Meryl Streep, Malala Yousafzai, Nazanin Boniadi, One Direction, Paloma Faith, Paul Wesley, Phoebe Tonkin, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan, Richard Branson, Robert Pattinson, Robert Redford, Rodrigo Santoro, Saoirse Ronan, Stephen Hawking, Sun Yang, UN Messenger of Peace Stevie Wonder, Tom Hiddleston, Thanh Bui, UNICEF supporter Wagner Moura, Yemi Alade, and UNDP Goodwill Ambassador for China Zhou Xun among others.

Written and directed by filmmaker Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Four Weddings and Funeral, Love Actually) and Mat Whitecross (Spike Island, Sex&Drugs&RocknRoll, Road to Guantanamo) and created by The Rumpus Room, people around the world have the chance to co-star alongside some of the world’s most famous people to help ‘tell everyone’ about the Global Goals by adding their voice to the film.

From today, people can upload their footage of reading their lines from the script written by Richard Curtis, outlining the ambition and themes of the goals at Global Goals. They can choose the goal they feel most passionate about – whether that’s having access to good healthcare like Hrithik Roshan, women’s rights like Jennifer Lawrence and Akshay Kumar or life under water like Meryl Streep. Film yourself reading the lines. And upload your footage.

Entries will be edited together into a final crowd-sourced video using footage submitted by people all over the world. The video will feature as many different faces and voices as possible, and will be screened at the Global Citizen Festival in New York on 26^th September and included in a 1-hour special TV program  to be broadcast globally in over 20 countries.

We the People is launching with a tutorial video written by players from Get Lit, an education program that engages urban youth in classic and spoken word poetry in Los Angeles, in a unique collaboration with Richard Curtis.