Films for the next film festival

[steve]

A new doc about climate change that's out on March 15th and also on at the Showroom from the 20th March. Anyway I thought I'd list it here for completeness.

[steve]

Australia Pumping Empty a new documentary for Australia

[steve]

A new movie still in production called We Are What We Eat.




More clips on the web site...

[steve]

Another interesting looking peak oil movie

Energy Crossroads

[steve]

A new 2009 film: The Great Squeeze

“For some decades now we have been talking about saving the planet; but I’ve come to realize that this is not really the issue. The issue is civilization itself and whether we can save it.”
-Lester R. Brown, Founder of the Earth Policy Institute

The Great Squeeze picks up where the documentary Energy Crossroads left off. This new film explores our current ecological and economic crisis stemming from our dependence on cheap and abundant energy. Although our actions for the past 200 years have lifted our civilization to new heights, it has come at a tremendous price.

With the help of specialists in anthropology, economics and biology, the film demonstrates that there are recurring patterns in history of self-destructive and shortsighted behaviors that parallel our modern times. Today, with 6 billion people and growing, those patterns are no longer isolated and are affecting the entire globe.

We are now at a point where humanity's demands for natural resources far exceed the earth's capacity to sustain us. The extraction and the use of those resources in the past two centuries have changed our climate and ecosystems so significantly that a new geological era had to be created.

Our current paradigm must change. We will have to accept the new reality; the human economy is part of nature and not the other way around. We are faced with great challenges. But unlike the rest of the living world, we have the unique ability to adapt and decide our fate and the fate of most of the biosphere, for better or worse, in order to survive the human project.

The Great Squeeze features: economist Lester Brown, founder of The Earth Policy Institute, Richard Heinberg, world renowned Peak Oil expert, Edward O. Wilson, legendary biologist, Alexandra Cousteau, leading advocate for marine ecosystems, author James Howard Kunstler, paleoclimatologist Jim White and many more.

[steve]

Given that peak oil might well lead to WW3 Threads seems as timely as ever. A brilliant, shockingly powerful film.

[steve]

When the Wind Blows is a highly acclaimed animated UK nuclear war film based on a graphic novel by Raymond Briggs. (80 minutes)

[steve]

Brand new film about Climate Change (June 2009), beautifully shot.



Full version is on Youtube in different languages:
http://www.youtube.com/homeproject

Film website:
http://www.home-2009.com/

[steve]

Given how well Money As Debt went down when we screened it in Meersbrook Money As Debt II could be good.

It's 77 mins long and you get unlimited screening rights when you buy 10 copies (which come complete with a revised copy of the first film).





Film website:
http://www.moneyasdebt.net/

[steve]

A UK 2009 film about colony collapse disorder:

http://vanishingbees.co.uk/


And a US short by the same title: