From the Age of Stupid to the End of the Line, and next year's Just Do It, independent filmmakers are innovating with radical film subjects and creating whole new funding streams, reports Laura Sevier
… How a new generation of eco-filmmakers are challenging broadcasting … Society Politics & Economics Independent Films Just Do It End Of The Line Age Of Stupid Green The Film Deforestation Dogwoof Creative Commons …
The documentary Bananas! highlighted plight of Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who brought a legal case in the US against the use of a banned pesticide DBCP by the Dole Food Company. Tom Levitt reports
… The film that stood up to banana giant Dole over … tried and failed to block the showing of the film in the US The documentary Bananas! … The biggest fruit company in the world sued a film-maker for daring to investigate the issue …
Report highlights the lasting impact of The End of the Line in raising awareness of unsustainable fishing practices - and illustrates how radical new film funding models can work
… The End of the Line: how a film changed the way we eat fish Tom Levitt … practices - and illustrates how radical new film funding models can work More than one … according to an evaluation of the film’s impact . The film was the first major …
From the next Erin Brokovitch, to a group of teens cleaning up Kenya's Kibera slum, a clutch of innovative youth film-makers are documenting crucial issues and demanding social and environmental justice
… Human Rights Watch film festival: young film-makers tackle eco-issues Matilda Lee | … Kibera slum, a clutch of innovative youth film-makers are documenting crucial issues and …
Playing with hyenas, hunting with cheetahs and running with wild dogs is all in a day's work for Kim Wolhuter. He tells Ruth Styles why he does it
… Q&A: Wildlife documentary filmmaker, Kim Wolhuter Ruth Styles | 30th … Reserve Singita Pamushana Travel Q&A Film Making Documentaries kim-holding.jpg … are bloody terrible mothers!’ Documentary film maker, Kim Wolhuter, doesn't pull his …
The fictional worlds of film comprise a call to action to transform our own world.
… An ecological philosophy of film Rupert Read | 7th January 2019 Comment Film Philosophy Avatar Avatar The fictional worlds of film comprise a call to action to transform …
Filmmaker Robert Kenner's documentary Food Inc has shocked audiences across the US with its stark portrayal of industrial agriculture. And that's just the bits the lawyers let you see...
… robert-kenner.jpg Photo credit: Dogwoof Filmmaker Robert Kenner's documentary Food Inc … Laura Sevier: What inspired you to make the film about the food industry? Robert Kenner : … I went from one company to the other - in the film you only see ten or so but actually there …
Zac Goldsmith talks to Leonardo DiCaprio about his new environmental film The 11th Hour
… Leonardo DiCaprio about his new environmental film The 11th Hour Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare … of oil money from US politics. His new film The 11th Hour is a very personal project … settled on a date coinciding with the Cannes Film Festival. I wasn’t planning to stay long …
Eifion Rees reports on the video journalists producing environmental and social justice films that influence public opinion - and consistently get closer to the issues than the mainstream media
… Undercurrents: the campaign film pioneers still setting the agenda Eifion … Culture Change Helen Iles Wales Sustainable Film Undercurrents Documentary Television … producing environmental and social justice films that influence public opinion - and …
A pioneering Disney nature film has become a powerful tool to protect threatened flamingos on Tanzania's Lake Natron
… A pioneering Disney nature film has become a powerful tool to protect … we have to feel connected to it. Wildlife filmmakers Leander Ward and Matthew Aeberhard's new film may be a testament to Dostoevsky's words. …
Tenet, the action blockbuster, is a warning about the threat of climate Armageddon that shows how action blockbusters are part of the problem (spoilers).
… and exhausted. But a closer analysis of the film allows for a useful discussion about the … as the driver of climate Armageddon. The film appears at first to be a fairly standard … dialogue and bizzare plot twists. The film requires close attention just as it …
The planned closure of the BBC Wildlife Fund represents the premature end of a model for how wildlife film-making can support conservation of the very environments it documents, says Rob St John
… the premature end of a model for how wildlife film-making can support conservation of the … made famous by its wildlife documentary films. Since its inception, the Fund has … debate over the appropriate role of wildlife film-making in society. Wildlife film-making …
Tracy Worcester’s ‘Pig Business’, a groundbreaking expose of US industrial pig farming conglomerate Smithfield Foods, has met with repeated attempts at censorship by the company’s lawyers. Here, she explains how England’s libel laws have helped stall the film’s general release, and stopped the world learning more about the environmental realities of intensive livestock rearing
… Pig Business: behind the film they tried to ban Tracy Worcester | 20th … England’s libel laws have helped stall the film’s general release, and stopped the world … livestock rearing After a showing of my film, Pig Business, at the Royal Society of …
Watch the winner of the 'best youth film' award in the 1 Minute to Save the World competition, sponsored by Unicef and SONY Open Planet, produced by the children and staff at Wilbury Primary School
… Watch the winner of the 'best youth film' award in the 1 Minute to Save the World … to Save the World, an online international film competition, is proving that young people … the globe they have submitted one-minute films on the subject of climate change, making …
A moving cinematic tale of life on Asia’s longest river raises questions about ecology, development and China’s future
… Sam Geall | 11th April 2008 Reviews China Film Progress Yangtze Global Warming … experience laid the foundations for Chang's film Up the Yangtze, which was screened in … part of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. I ask Chang when he decided to …
A 2-day workshop for grassroot protestors and NGO workers, to learn skills in using video to support your campaigns
… Film Oxford: Video Activists course 1st … to the web, cutting costs in commissioning films, and allowing protestors to gain wider … Over the two days we will practise how to film different shots, how to get good audio …
With the release of the Climate Change film Chasing Ice on DVD, Susan Clark is surprised to find most of what she was looking for – the science and heart-breaking footage of majestic glaciers seemingly just slipping away – not in the main feature but in the hour-long DVD extras
… 2013 Reviews Chasing Ice Climate Change Film shutterstock_101682526.jpg With the release of the Climate Change film Chasing Ice on DVD, Susan Clark is … in the hour-long DVD extras Chasing Ice – the film that earlier this year (on Earth Day as …
Sarah Christman's enigmatic film Swarm Season suggests that outer space is within the scope of environmental concern.
… | 15th May 2020 News Resurgence & Ecologist Film Review Swarm Season bees-4845211_1280.jpg … Sarah Christman's enigmatic film Swarm Season suggests that outer space is … and editor. Swarm Season is not a 'nature film' in the conventional sense of the term, …
The West African iboga root is a mind-transforming psychedelic, writes Michael Goldin, capable of cleansing people of even the most serious addictions. Those seeing this film will surely emerge convinced that iboga should be made available, in therapeutic settings, to those seeking to overcome the terrible disease that is drug addiction.
… most serious addictions. Those seeing this film will surely emerge convinced that iboga … documentary to watch. It captures addicts on film as they inject opioids into ragged veins … abused him as a child was acquitted. Yet, the film is a brave one and is ultimately about …
The Earth Liberation Front targeted dozens of businesses they accused of destroying the environment. As a new film charting its rise and fall premieres in the US, Matilda Lee speaks to director Marshall Curry about the fine line between activism and terrorism
… of destroying the environment. As a new film charting its rise and fall premieres in … Matilda Lee: What spurred you to make a film about the Earth Liberation Front? … on the ELF change in the course of making the film? MC: Yes, I have to say that along the …
The animal rights documentary Hogwood: A Modern Horror Story has won the Wild Animal award at this year’s prestigious British Documentary Film Festival.
… Hogwood wins at British Documentary Film Festival Brendan Montague | 12th August 2020 News Film Awards Vegan Viva Factory Farms Pigs … this year’s prestigious British Documentary Film Festival. Hogwood: A Modern Horror Story …
1minutetosavetheworld.com is an online film competition that encourages people from all over the world to submit a one minute length film about climate change.
… 1 minute to save the world - Film Competition Vi Nguyen | 30th November 2010 Other 1minutetosavetheworld Film Competition Video TV minute 480x360.jpg … 1minutetosavetheworld.com is an online film competition that encourages people from …
Film directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk spent months with Al Gore observing his climate advocacy behind the scenes and at close hand. BRENDAN MONTAGUE asks about Gore, Trump, the impact of watching the melting glaciers and meeting many of the millions of activists worldwide determined to make a difference.
… Paris Agreement Climate Change dsc_1952.jpg Film directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk spent … Truth: A Global Warning , where he is filmed presenting his town hall talk and … in the coming decades and centuries. The film won two Oscars - for best documentary …