At this year’s Sustainable Living Festival (SLF) we have joined with Tasmanian Breath of Fresh Air (BOFA) Film Festival (Launceston, www.bofa.com.au) and Hobart City Council to bring you 4 celebrated films on sustainability. The two fantastic festivals will run over the weekend of 8 & 9 November in opposite ends of the State, but rather than competing, we have decided to Get Connected, the theme of SLF 2014, and showcase a selection of the BOFA films to Hobart audiences at SLF.
“Sustainability is complex – there aren’t really any right or wrong answers, rather it is a journey on which we are all at different vantage points. I think the key is to enjoy the view, learn as much as you can about other places and ensure that you share highlights with others along the way. Here we bring you our highlights of the BOFA Film Festival, absolutely free” said Lissa Villeneuve, SLF Festival Director.
The Malagasy Way a poetic, proverb-packed tour of an alternative way of life central to Madagascar’s culture and society. Rejecting the waste and overconsumption that plague Western nations, the film examines how the people of Madagascar have embraced a conservationist lifestyle of recycling, repurposing and self-reliance in the midst of a global economic crisis.Showing 12.30pm Sun 9th Nov
Bringing it Home Afather’s search to find the healthiest building materials leads him to the completion of the nation’s first hemp house. Showing11am Sun 9th Nov.
Songs from the Forest , Stories are interwoven to form a touching portrait of an extraordinary man and his son. Carried by the contrasts between rainforest and urban America, with a fascinating soundtrack and peaceful, loving imagery.
Showing 12noon Sat 8th Nov
Virunga
Virunga is a UNESCO-designated World Heritage listed National Park in the Congo, with the world’s last population of wild mountain gorillas. With enough action, pathos, suspense, venal villains, stalwart heroes and endangered gorillas for a dozen fiction films, Orlando von Einsiedel’s extraordinary documentary Virunga lays out the complex mix of deadly forces threatening the national park. This rousing, must-see work, filmed amid flying bullets and racist conspirators, provides a dramatic front-row seat to a struggle whose moral integrity proves no guarantee against the superior firepower of greed and corruption. Showing 2.15pm Sat 8th Nov
This fantastic collaboration has been made possible with funding from a Dr. Edward Hall Environment Grant from the Hobart City Council. The selected films highlight positive solutions to the issues currently facing humanity, an approach integral to both BOFA and SLF.
Lissa Villeneuve, Festival Director, SLT
