2010 Festival



	'imush q'uyatl'un (Be with me Snail) Director: Karolle Wall Canada 2009 more

	1080 Director: Peter Holmes and Steve Ting New Zealand 2009 (28 mins) Silver bullet or slippery slope? In Aotearoa, 1080 poison offers the gift of life to some animals but inflicts a painful death on others. more

	A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW Director: Kevin White and David Donnenfield USA 2009 (34 mins) Can a child’s question change the course of history? STRAW traces how an innocent question spawned an amazing response that restored not only a natural area network but also helped restore and connect a community. more

	Albatrocity Director: Iain Frengley and Edi Saltau New Zealand 2009 (26 mins) New Zealand filmmaker Iain Frengley and Edward Saltau trace the story of the albatross, immersing the viewer in the beauty, majesty and vulnerability of these birds as viewed through the dramatic prism of Coleridge’s famous poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. more

	Angels of the Forest: Silky Sifaka Lemurs of Madagascar Director: Sharon Pieczenik Madagascar 2009 The melodic sound of a flute opens the story of rare primates in Madagascar’s stressed rain forest remnant as active and beautiful silky sifaka lemurs are, for the first time, caught on tape. more

	Ashes From the Sky Director: Jose Antonio Quiros Spain 2009 Screening time 6 pm 27 May (90 mins) Pol Ferguson writes tour guides. On a visit to northern Spain his campervan breaks down and he finds himself stuck in a valley under the shadow of a power plant more

	Bananas!* Director: Fredrik Gertten Sweden 2009 Screening time 6 pm 29 May (88 mins) Reminiscent of last year’s powerful film Crude, and telling a similar David-versus-the-Giant -Corporation story, Bananas!* follows the court case brought by attorney Juan Dominguez on behalf of plantation workers against Standard Fruit (now Dole Food) corporation. more

	Battle for the Xingu Director: Iara Lee USA 2009 The sound of tropical birdsong belies tension and gravity: with the grit of an embedded journalist in an environmental war, director Iara Lee presents a short but confronting insight into an indigenous struggle for a river’s survival. more

	Big River Director: Curt Ellis USA 2009 Big River opens with footage from the Iowa floods of 2007. Weeks of heavy rains devastated towns and cities, but they also washed countless tons of topsoil, herbicides, and fertilizer off Iowa's fields and into its waterways. more

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