Reel Change – Climate Change Shorts
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Saturday, May 01, 2010
12:30 PM
Cinema Nova, MELBOURNE
Reel Change – Climate Change Shorts
Discussion forum with Amie Batalibasi.
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The Reel Change short film session explores one of the most important and urgent issues of our time – climate change – and the effect that it is having on human beings worldwide. From Australia to Niger, the Solomon Islands, Indonesia and Russia, this session uncovers the steps being taken by communities to stop climate change, to manage the transformations occurring in their environment and to ultimately maintain control over their own lives.
Films
TIDE OF CHANGE
World Premiere
AMIE BATALIBASI / AUSTRALIA / 2009 / 11.40MINS / DOCO
Tide of Change documents the filmmaker's journey to visit her family in the Solomon Islands at a time when the community is on the brink of enormous change.
K_SCAPES
Australian Premiere
SAM COLE / ITALY/NIGER / 2008 / 10MINS / DOCO
The inhabitants of the Keita Valley (Niger) have managed to halt the advance of the desert by planting trees, transforming 5000 square kilometres of barren landscape into a flourishing valley.
THE FORBIDDEN FOREST OF THE DAYAK
Australian Premiere
LUIS PATRON AND CITT WILLIAMS / INDONESIA / 2009 / 9.05MIN / DOCO
Deep in the old growth forests of Borneo, the Setulang Dayak community guards its trees with deep commitment, withstanding increasing pressure from encroaching logging industries.
PAPIROFLEXIA
Australian Premiere
JOAQUIN BALDWIN / USA / 2007 / 2.34MIN / ANIMATION
An origami tale of a skilful paper folder who could shape the world with his hands.
AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH, OF WELLS AND MEN
Australian Premiere
INGRID PATETTA / FRANCE/NIGER / 2008 / 23MIN / DOCO
Enter the world of the traditional well diggers of Niger who fight against the harsh desert sands in order to find water.
FIGHTING CARBON WITH FIRE
Australian Premiere
KIM MCKENZIE / AUSTRALIA / 2009 / 5.40MIN / DOCO
Aboriginal fire ecologist, Dean Yibarbuk, has been working with local scientists to adapt a regime of traditional fire management that reduces greenhouse gas emissions whilst caring for the country.
THE WATER DIARY
JANE CAMPION / AUSTRALIA/FRANCE / 2007 / 15.40MIN / DRAMA
Awards: Official selection Cannes Film Festival
In the worst drought in history Felicity plays the viola on an empty water tank in an attempt to beckon the rain.
LAND HAS BREATH
IVAN GOLOVNEV / RUSSIA / 2009 / 8.30MIN / DOCO
Slava Cheltuev, is an Altai community leader and shaman who stresses the importance of reviving age-old wisdom that avows the respectful and harmonious relationship between local environments and human behaviour.
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