Environmental Film Festival
July 18-20
A variety of films exploring the environmental issues of today. A fundraiser for Green Left Weekly. All films held on the big screen in the hall at the
Hobart Activist Centre, 225 Murray St, Hobart. Please forward to your friends or drop in to pick up some posters to spread around.
Program:
Friday 18th July
7pm: The 11th Hour (2007, 95 mins)
Drought. Famine. Severe flooding. Hurricanes. Acid rain. The highest average temperatures in history. In the history of the planet, humanity's time on earth
has been short--but powerful. Human development has revolutionized industry, science, nutrition and medicine. But it has also effected unprecedented changes
in the delicate balance that makes life on earth possible. Essential viewing, more relentless than An Inconvenient Truth.
Saturday 19th July
5pm: The Lorax (bring the kids) (1972, 52 mins)
The classic Doctor Sues tale of a young boy meets a ruined industrialist in a treeless wasteland and hears his tale of what has happened to him. His tragic
story is about how he began a thriving business with a useless fashion product derived from the trees of a forest. As his business booms, the forest and
its inhabitants suffer as he wantonly clearcuts without regard to the warnings of a wise old creature called the Lorax about the dire consequences of his
greed.
5.55: Short film
6pm Dinner – Cheap Yummy Meal Provided
7pm: The Carbon Connection
Two communities affected by one new global market – the trade in carbon dioxide. In Scotland a town has been polluted by oil and chemical companies since
the 1940s. In Brazil local people's water and land is being swallowed up by destructive monoculture eucalyptus tree plantations. Both communities now share
a new threat. The Carbon Connection follows the story of two groups of people from each community who learned to use video cameras and made their own films
about living with the impacts of the carbon market.
Sunday 20th July
4pm: A Hard Rain (2007, 77 mins)
Twice Academy Award nominee and five time AFI winner David Bradbury explores the `other side' of the nuclear debate. Traversing five countries- China ,
France , UK , Japan and Australia , A Hard Rain exposes the hidden agendas behind the latest push for Australia to go nuclear and presents a compelling
argument against allowing this to happen. With interviews from some of the world's top scientists and environmentalists, including Dr Rosalie Bertell
(Canada ), Dr Chris Busby (UK), Dr Mark Diesendorf, Prof. Ian Lowe & Dr Gavin Mudd (Aust), A Hard Rain provides the information you need to know to decide
if Australia should head down the nuclear path.
5.30pm: The One Tree Project (2004, 20 mins)
Is woodchipping a waste of a precious resource? See what can be created using just one tree. An inspiring and fascinating documentary of the journey
of a tree from Tasmania's southern forests through the hands of many creative people.
6:30: Dinner – Cheap Yummy Meal Provided
7pm: Exxon Mobil Climate Change (2007, 65 mins)
This film shows the influence that the largest company in the world has on governments, the media and citizens and what can be done about global warming.
While the Earth's climate is pushed further out of balance by increasing use of fossil fuels, ExxonMobil continues to assert undue influence around the
world— making record profits while ignoring climate science for which there has been overwhelming consensus for over ten years.
