Sunday 17 September (2 hr 36 min)

Sunday's showing is a matinee with doors opening at 1 pm.

Paving Shangril-La (30 min) WORLD PREMIERE!

An annual visitor to the Annapurnas, author and photographer Andrew Stevenson uses a video camera to record a way of life that will soon fade into the lost horizon of a forgotten time. Walking 100 miles in the middle of winter through the Himalayas, Andrew stays in the homes of locals he has befriended over the last two decades. These spectacular images of mule trains, yak caravans and local traditions depict the cost of completing this military highway.

Fledging Expectations (24 min)

A novel approach to protecting vineyards from browsing birds by recruiting the help of the NZ falcon.  But will it have a taste for lifestyler’s chickens?

The Okapa Connection (15 min)

From bush to brew, the Okapa connection follows the journey of a shipment of fair trade organic coffee from the mountains of PNG to a café in Melbourne.  Beginning as plump red cherries in indigenous lands in the beautiful remote mountains, the coffee has a long way and may stages to pass through to be the perfect accompaniment to a Saturday morning paper.  Recently certified as fair trade as well as organic, the premiums that come are beginning to change the lives of the coffee growers and their communities.

Our Living Past (10 min)

A film about the survival of the Tuatara, New Zealand’s living fossil, on remote offshore islands.

INTERMISSION

 

Someone Has to Pay (4 min)

A Kiwi-creative music video/documentary illustrating the negative impact our consumerism has on developing countries especially, children and the environment.

Buyer, Be Fair: The Promise of Product Certification (60 min)

The Seattle World Trade Organization meetings and other trade gatherings have stirred powerful sentiment against globalization, but world trade is a juggernaut that will not be stopped. Is there a way to make free trade FAIR? How can retailers and consumers use their purchasing power and market choice to make the world better for people and the environment? What is the promise of product certification and labeling? And how do consumers decide whether the labels can be believed? Taking viewers to Mexico, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Sweden, the United States and Canada, this exquisitely photographed film explores how consumers and businesses can use the market to promote social justice and environmental sustainability through product labeling, with a focus on Fair Trade coffee and Forest Stewardship Council certified wood. This powerful documentary seeks to open a dialogue about new ways to make globalization work for all of us.

Alphabet Soup (13 min)

Join an expedition into the middle of the Pacific Ocean to sample an area 4 times the size of Texas, called the eastern garbage patch.  Due to ocean currents and air pressure, the ocean acts as a large toilet bowl and accumulates large amounts of debris ~ mainly plastic, in the garbage patch.  See how the debris travels, and its impact on marine life.