Lessons from a Melting Icecap

New Zealand 2008

Nominated for Best Short Film and Best New Zealand Film

Screening time 2pm Sunday 17 May (38 mins)

In mid 2007, three Dunedin school girls won a nationwide contest and found themselves journeying first to London then to Greenland to encounter a 1.8 million square kilometre icecap. Told through the travel log of the naïve yet enthusiastic girls and using an adept mix of graphics and actual footage, Lessons takes the huge, often intangible issues of climate change, sustainability and our reliance on oil, and gives them a human face—a young, hopeful, very Kiwi one.