ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL AUSTRALIA COMES TO HOBART

What: Environmental Film Festival Australia 2015
When: Sept 18-21, 2015
Where: Village Cinemas, Hobart

Website / Full Program / Tickets:
www.effa.org.au

Festival Patrons: Bob Brown, Adam Bandt, Linh Do and Heidi Douglas
More information: http://www.effa.org.au/patrons-2015

Program Highlights:

BLACK ICE AND DEFENDANT 5, OPENING NIGHT AND LAUNCH PARTY, SPECIAL GUESTS BOB BROWN, HEIDI DOUGLAS, STUART LENNOX
Date: Friday 18 Sept, 6.15pm – late
Details: http://www.effa.org.au/black-ice
A gripping story told on the high seas, Black Ice chronicles the events surrounding the Arctic 30, the Greenpeace activists determined to stop the highly controversial practice of oil drilling in the frigid waters of the Barents Sea. Staging an action that sees them run afoul of Putin’s Russia, the ship’s entire crew is detained on piracy charges. What happens next is an inspiring example of how the international community can come together to protect the right to protest in the face of injustice.
Screens with Defendant 5 and is followed by a panel discussion including Bob Brown, Heidi Douglas and Stuart Lennox.

TARKINE IN MOTION, WITH FILMMAKER AND ARTISTS
Date: Saturday 19 Sept, 8pm
Details: http://www.effa.org.au/tarkine-in-motion/
In April 2015, over 70 photographers, filmmakers, musicians and artists journeyed into the Tarkine to document and interpret its wild, scenic beauty as never before – producing a stunning 40-minute documentary portrait of this threatened wilderness and the creative minds working to save it.
Curated by Tasmanian wilderness photographer and film maker, Dan Broun and the Bob Brown Foundation, Tarkine In Motion is a multi-platform project that will culminate in a film, concerts and exhibitions of art created in the heart of the Tarkine, one of the last great wilderness areas on the planet.

Followed by filmmaker Dan Broun in conversation with artists Ruth Langford and Deborah Wace.

GOOD THINGS AWAIT, SCREENING AND TASTING
Date: Saturday 19 Sept, 2-4pm
Details: http://www.effm.org.au/slow-food-story
Meet Niels Stokholm in a charming introduction to biodynamic farming where humans and nature exist in harmony, and work to maintain a symbiotic relationship with agriculture. Join the conversation about our food systems with expert panellists and local food appreciators, and feast on tastings of mouthwatering biodynamic food.

THULE TUVALU
Date: Saturday 19 Sept, 6pm
Details: http://www.effa.org.au/thule-tuvalu
Thule Tuvalu is about people from different ends of the earth who are increasingly bound together by global warming – people who are being forced to change the very essence of their existence in order to survive. Following the film, join us for a panel discussion: What now for climate? Paris and Beyond.

LANDFILL HARMONIC
Date: 20th Sept, 6.15pm
Details: http://www.effa.org.au/landfill-harmonic
In Landfill Harmonic, we follow the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura all the way from a pile of landfill in Paraguay to the world stage with Metallica and Megadeath. This heartwarming documentary is testament to the transformative power of music.

BANKING NATURE AND PANEL DISCUSSION
Date: 21st Sept, 6pm
Details: http://www.effa.org.au/banking-nature/
Banking Nature is a provocative documentary that looks at the growing movement to monetise the natural world – and to turn endangered species and threatened areas into instruments of profit. It’s a worldview that sees capital and markets not as a threat to the planet, but as its salvation—turning nature into “natural capital”.
Livia Cullen Co-Director Environmental Film Festival Melbourne