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Films in the Official Selection of Sustainable Living Film Festivals before 2019
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- DirectorJeremy SeifertStarsJeremy SeifertVandana ShivaCary FowlerFilmmaker Jeremy Seifert journeys to Haiti, Paris, Norway, and even agri-giant Monsanto in search of answers about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and how they affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice.
- DirectorEda Elif TibetEvery year, Amchi Karma Chodon an idealist Tibetan doctor, travels to the most remote areas in ladakh to raise awareness on women and child public health care. The mother of five, she is also accompanied by her youngest five month old baby 'Teljor' as she travels hundreds of miles on the harsh and dangerous roads of the Ladakhi Himalayas in India. The documentary follows Amchi Karma's last journey to meet her students who live in the Zanskar region. After giving them four years of education on Tibetan medicine in Leh Ladakh, she will be meeting them for the last time to give a revision course on women and child healthcare, so that the young Amchis can look after their own communities.
- DirectorIan MackenzieYogi, Buddhist teacher and activist Michael Stone arrives on a pilgrimage to Japan, in the wake of the tsunami and Fukushima meltdown. REACTOR is a short film project that aims to uncover how and why we can let go of our old stories, and move towards personal and social awakening.
- DirectorCandida BradyStarsPaul ConnettJeremy IronsEvangelos KalafatisJeremy Irons sets out to discover the extent and effects of the global waste problem, as he travels around the world to beautiful destinations tainted by pollution. This is a meticulous, brave investigative journey that takes Irons (and us) from skepticism to sorrow and from horror to hope.
- DirectorDavid BondStarsMichael DepledgeSusan GreenfieldJay GriffithsFilmmaker David Bond invites parents everywhere to help their kids re-connect with nature in our digital age.
- DirectorSimon CunichA journey inside Venezuela's food revolution.
- DirectorNora BatesonStarsGregory BatesonNora BatesonGerry Brown'An Ecology of Mind' is a filmic portrait of anthropologist, biologist, and psychotherapist Gregory Bateson. Bateson believed that, 'The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between the way nature works and the way people think.' Seen through the relationship between father and daughter, this documentary is an invitation into 'systems thinking' and interrelationships in the natural world. 'Looking at what holds systems together is a radical step toward sewing the world back together, from the inside.'
- DirectorFrank GapinskiStarsGeoff LawtonGeoff Lawton takes you into the world of Permaculture Soils. Understanding how microbes work in organic soils is the key to sustainable abundance and Lawton shows you how to do it.
- DirectorBill BenensonGene RosowEleonore DaillyStarsJamie Lee CurtisBill LoganVandana ShivaThe only remedy for disconnecting people from the natural world is connecting them to it again.
- DirectorHubert SauperStarsElizabeth 'Eliza' Maganga NseseRaphael Tukiko WagaraDimond RemtuliaA documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.
- DirectorTibor KocsisStarsJohn AstonEmil BogárMargit BuranThere is a wonderful village. It's called Rosia Montana (Verespatak). With several hundred-year-old houses. People who stick by their land, house, churches, dead relations. The surrounding mountains contain 300 tons of gold and silver. Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, a Canadian-Romanian company wants to open a goldmine here. State-of-the-art technology. Open cast mining. People are being moved into new, modern houses. Their former homes are to be destroyed. There will be gold. There will be silver. This will be a new Eldorado. A remarkable offer. There will also be an 800-hectare cyanide waste reservoir with a 180-meter-high dam. Only this beautiful village, Rosia Montana will disappear from the face of the Earth.
- DirectorJohnny Kelly
- DirectorCosima DannoritzerStarsRichard JonesMolly MalcolmSteve BunnThis is the story of companies who engineered their products to fail.
- DirectorJess PhillimoreStarsMburu GathuruZac GoldsmithRamón HerreraSeeds of Freedom (2012, narrated by Jeremy Irons) provides an overview of the history of agriculture, charting the transition of the farm into a factory, and highlighting the impact of the agrochemical and GM industries. The film includes footage from across Africa and speakers such as Dr Vandana Shiva (Navdanya), Henk Hobbelink (GRAIN), Zac Goldsmith MP, Caroline Lucas MP, John Vidal (The Guardian), Percy Schmeiser and Kumi Naidoo. The film challenges the mantra that large-scale, industrial agriculture is the only means by which we can feed the world, promoted by the pro-GM lobby. In tracking the story of seed it becomes clear how corporate agenda has driven the take over of seed in order to make vast profit and take control of the food global system.