Catch the Green Film Festival
Home » Blog » Sophie Barclay » Catch the Green Film FestivalStarting 10/10/10 the Green Film Festival will be screening a documentary every Sunday at 4pm until the end of the month. We have a pair of tickets to each movie to give away: just leave a comment telling us what mvie you want to see, and why!
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What do a Nobel Peace Prize winner, bikes, a near-extinct New Zealand bird and food production have in common? Give up? They will soon be stars of the big, green screen.
The Kaipatiki Project and Environment Centre (in conjunction with Academy Cinemas and Good) is bringing four award-winning documentaries to town for the festival.
Starting on 10/10/10, coinciding with 350’s Global Climate Working Bee, there will be a film every Sunday at 4pm for the rest of October. The screening schedule is as follows:
Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Sunday 10 October, 4pm
Taking Root (Kenya 2008) tells the story of Wangari Maathai, the founder of the Green Belt Movement of Kenya and the first African woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Covering the spectrum of human rights, politics, environmental science this moving film shows how the act of planting trees founded a community and brought together a force that helped to end the 24-year dictatorship
of Kenya.
Veer
Sunday 17 October, 4pm
Veer (USA 2009) is a must-see for bike enthusiasts. The film exposes the wacky cycling counter-culture in the US; from dancing bike troupe the Sprockettes, to the nocturnal Zoobombers who storm the city after 8:30. It also follows the politics of transport and bike laws in the US, and offers inspiration and ideas about how we get more bikes on our car-heavy streets.
The Unnatural History of the Kakapo
Sunday 24 October, 4pm
Award-winning film The Unnatural History of the Kakapo (New Zealand 2009) brings to light the near-extinction of the Kakapo population. Conservationists were puzzled for years by dead embryos and infertile eggs, until research showed the birds were too closely related. In this funny, emotional and gripping film, we see a hopeful outlook for the future of conservation through adaptive management techniques, good science, and passion.
Fresh
Sunday 31 October, 4pm
Environmental destruction, obesity, contamination and depletion of our natural resources are challenged by innovative thinkers who are redesigning our food system in Fresh (USA 2009). People like farmer and entrepreneur Joel Salatin (from The Omnivore’s Dilemma), MacArthur’s 2008 Genius Award recipient and urban farmer Will Allen, and left-of-the-centre supermarket owner David Ball. This exciting film offers us a promising, positive future for our food and our planet.
Tue October 12, 2010 @ 08:47 PM
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