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WINTER DOCUMENTARY FILM SERIES
The St Albans Centre, with the help and cooperation of Alice in Videoland, are pleased to present six documentaries that have significant importance to Kiwis.
Earth Whisperers / Papatuanuku
Sun 11 Jul, 6pm
New Zealand environmental documentary by filmmaker Kathleen Gallagher. Shot at spectacular locations around the country by acclaimed cameraman Alun Bollinger (Goodbye Pork Pie, Heavenly Creatures, River Queen), this focuses on 10 visionary New Zealanders out to prove that a shift in consciousness can heal our environment. You’ll be inspired and never look at stinging nettle in your garden in quite the same way again.
73 min
Rated: G
The End of the Line
Sun 25 Jul, 6pm
Sound the global alarm. Scientists predict that if we continue fishing at the current rate, the planet will run out of seafood by 2048 with catastrophic consequences. Based on the book by Charles Clover, and narrated by Ted Danson, The End of the Line explores the devastating effect that overfishing is having on fish stocks and the health of our oceans.With Clover as his guide, Sundance veteran Rupert Murray (Unknown White Male) crisscrosses the globe, examining what is causing the dilemma and what can be done to solve it. Industrial fishing began in the 1950s. High-tech fisheries now trawl the oceans with nets the size of football fields. Species cannot survive at the rate they are being removed from the sea. Add in cofactors of decades of bad science, corporate greed, small-minded governments, and escalating consumer demand, and we’re left with a crisis of epic proportions. Ninety percent of the big fish in our oceans are now gone. Murray interweaves glorious footage from both underwater and above with shocking scientific testimony to paint a vivid and alarming profile of the state of the sea. The ultimate power of The End of the Line is that it moves beyond doomsday rhetoric to proffer real solutions. Chillingly topical, The End of the Line drives home the message: the clock is ticking, and the time to act is now.
90 min
Rated: PG
The films will be show at the St Albans Community Centre, 1047 Colombo St, St Albans.
There will be a $4.00 charge to help our Centre. Further showings will be held on 8 Aug and 22 Aug and the programme for those dates will be announced in due time.
