Film night at the State

Frank Nicklason

Don’t miss …
Two Visions (2004), 43 minutes, was filmed on location in Tasmania over an 8 month period by award winning cinematographer David Warth.

In a series of hard hitting interviews (given by scientists,community leaders and timberworkers) and site visits across Tasmania it examines the stark contrast between the Federal Government’s ‘2020 Vision’ (to expand the plantation estate of Australia to 3 million hectares by 2020, which has led to conversion of biodiverse native forests and prime agricultural soils to monoculture tree farms) and the vision ( of a clean, clever, safe and natural Tasmania) that emerged from the Tasmania Together community consultative process initiated by the Bacon Labor Government.

The Swans are Dying (2006), 14 minutes, features footage taken by renowned adventurer, photographer and author Bob McMahon (and by local activists) on a trip that McMahon made to the Rio Cruces wetlands in Chile earlier this year.

The film examines the impacts of effluent from a pulpmill (with very similar technology to the proposed Long Reach mill) and provides a timely warning from the hard lessons of the Chilean experience.

Watershed (2006), 45 minutes, was filmed by independent cinematographer Shivanii Cameron and neatly dovetails with Two Visions.

It again features hardhitting commentaries from a variety of people (expert and community leaders,interstate and local) on the pressing environmental and social impacts of current agribusiness practices.

The film offers choices for smarter resource usage and sustainability in agriculture and forestry and shows that much can be done, and has to be done, to secure a positive future.

The film night at the State Cinema kicks off at 8.30pm on tomorrow (Saturday) night.

It is part of a weekend conference organised by the group Future Tasmania entitled Water, Food and Forests which features contributions of prominent speakers from Tasmania and interstate.

For more information checkout www.futuretasmania.com.