The story of Dorjee Sun is certainly a timely one, combining a story dealing with the complexities of the global fight against climate change with a story about a brilliant entrepreneur selling what seems to be, essentially, an esoteric financial product. On the one hand, Cathy Henkel's film about Sun's efforts, The Burning Season, offers a change from the usual doom-and-gloom docs about the coming global apocalypse, because it focuses on an individual who sees the potential to curb carbon emissions while making a buck, key to getting key corporations on board with the program. On the other hand, perhaps Henkel takes too credulous an approach to Sun's efforts. Sadly, The Burning Season contains no testimony from the opponents of a market approach to limiting carbon emissions. There are other threads in the film, but The Burning Season is a film about carbon trading primarily because Sun's efforts are presented as the key to everything. The complexities of carbon trading don't have the cinematic pizzazz of a story about a farmer struggling to find a new way to do business without burning down trees, or of an animal rescue camp that tends to displaced orangutans, but the issue demands more stringent analysis than the film provides. It's a fairly slick production, with animated sequences and a voiceover by Hugh Jackman, and it's got some great footage of orangutans rescued--at least temporarily--from deforestation. In the end, however, The Burning Season feels less like a documentary and more like a well-made infomercial.