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Movie Shows
Future possible Movie Shows
The Real Dirt About Farmer John
The
Real Dirt on Farmer John" epic tale of a maverick Midwestern
farmer. An outcast in his community, Farmer John bravely stands
amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and violence. By melding
the traditions of family farming with the power of art and free
expression, this powerful story of transformation and renewal
heralds a resurrection of farming in America. The movie charts the
end of this idealistic era as the farm debt crisis of the 80’s
brings about the tragic collapse of the farm. Defying all odds, the
real-life Farmer John gradually transforms his land into a
revolutionary farming community, a cultural mecca, where people work
and flourish providing fresh vegetables and herbs to thousands of
people every week. The Peterson family farm has become one of the
largest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms in the United
States, a beacon of today’s booming organic farming movement.
"Crude:
The Real Price of Oil" travels to South America, where it
investigates the mammoth "Amazon Chernobyl" case from a variety of
angles, refusing to take the side of any single person or side.
Though it is a non-fiction documentary in form, Berlinger’s film has
the pull of a legal drama where human life and the environment are
at stake. ‘Crude’ explores the efforts of two mismatched characters
– small-town rural advocate Pablo Fajardo and New York legal eagle
Steve Donziger – to bring a class-action lawsuit against oil giant
Texaco for a series of alleged ecological crimes against the land
and people of Amazonian Ecuador. But this is more than a simple
David v Goliath tale, as director Joe Berlinger widens his scope to
examine the impact of cultural change on agrarian folk struggling to
keep up.
Narrated
by Canadian actress and environmentalist Neve Campbell, this
beautifully photographed and much anticipated feature documentary
from Academy Award Nominated director Leslie Iwerks goes deep
behindthe-scenes into the strip-mined world of Northern Alberta,
Canada. Here, vast and toxic oil sands supply the U.S. with the
majority of its oil. Extracting oil from tar sands emits three times
more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional oil and uses four
times as much water and heat per barrel of oil. Told through the
eyes of scientists, "big oil" officials, politicians, doctors,
environmentalists, and aboriginal citizens directly effected by "the
largest industrial project on the planet today", the filmmakers
journey to both sides of the border to uncover the emotional and
irreversible toll this "black gold rush" is taking on our planet.
The film is produced by Albertaborn and Emmy Award winning producer
Philip Alberstat, and coproduced by Canadians, Mark Cranwell and
Randy Bradshaw.
"Food,
Inc" lifts the veil the US food industry, exposing the
highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the consumer
with the consent of government regulatory agencies. The food supply
is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit
ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of farmers, the safety of
workers and the environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the
perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes
that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the
harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000
Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity,
particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among
adults. Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser
(Fast Food Nation), Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking
truths—about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a
nation and where we are going from here.
Director: Robert Kenner Starring: Michael Pollan
and Eric Schlosser Running Time: 94 mins Country: U.S.A. Website:
http://www.foodincmovie.co.uk
Our Last Movie Show
Turning Point - July 2010
"The
Turning Point: a return to community" explores the vital
importance of community in the 21st century and its role in helping
us to create a life-sustaining society. The film takes an inspiring
look at some of the sustainable community solutions that have grown
up over the last 20 years around the Findhorn Foundation community
in Scotland. This ecovillage aspires to create a positive and
sustainable future. Featuring visionary leaders and pioneers
in the fields of Human Ecology and Global Transition, this film
takes an inspiring look at our potential to create a life-sustaining
society as we face the twin challenges of Peak Oil and Climate
Change.
Shown for the first
time in High Wycombe at the Friends Meeting House on Wednesday 28th July
2010 at 7.30pm
Previous Movie Show: The 'In Transition' &
'The Powerdown Show' Double bill
- January 2010
Where
Your Donation Goes
From August 2009 we will start asking for a minimum Donation for
everyone attending our film shows. This will be set initially at
£2. This reflects new demands from the Environment Centre that
we pay for each event in addition to the yearly subscription.
Previously events attracted no charge after the yearly fee as
paid. Now we pay both. This is a significant increase in cost to
us and reflects the financial problems of the Environment
Centre. They need the revenue to continue their good work so we
should all contribute a little more. We hope you won't mind.
Each Film Show is run as a one-off event planned
way in advance. We now show fewer but BIGGER
Movies with all the glitz and glamour they deserve. The licence
fee to show such Movies now has to be covered from the donations
you make when you see a film with us. We promise you that the
movies you see will NOT be on at the Cinema and cannot be seen
on TV! The £2+ you pay is far less than Cinemas charge and
significantly less than the cost of buying or renting the DVD.
In some cases we show the Movies before the DVD is even in the
shops.
After-show Chats
The Transition Town High Wycombe Team will be available after
the show to answer questions. This normally leads to quite a
debate. People can get quite carried away so the first
half hour of any ensuing discussion will be time-limited. Each participant will be
allowed to speak for only three minutes at first. As a guideline
we suggest that people will make best use of those three minutes
if they keep to the Movie topic, how it relates to themselves
and High Wycombe. After each person has been allowed to speak
the debate will become free-form so it can go where ever the
participants wish it to go.
By the way - no individual is obliged to contribute so you can
sit back, relax and listen to your fellow citizens shape the
Transition Vision for High Wycombe.
Previous Movies
The
Great Warming
Stonehaven Productions, 82 minutes, 2006
Features Keanu Reeves and Alanis Morissette. Filmed in eight
countries on four continents, endorsed by dozens of the world's
leading scientists, this is the most factually accurate,
visually stunning and wide-ranging production ever mounted about
this complex, fascinating subject. "[It] should be required
viewing by all. Future generation's lives, and maybe even ours,
depend on it" New York Times, Nov '06
With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia
explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as the
planet approaches a critical era, as global demand for fossil
fuels begins to outstrip supply. How will the populations of
suburbia react to the collapse of their dream? Are today's
suburbs destined to become the slums of tomorrow? What can be
done?
Debt has reached astronomical proportions but how could there be
that much money to lend? The answer is there isn't. Today money
is debt. If there were no debt there would be no money. If we
can't keep paying our debts then money will disappear from the
economy. The economy can never slow down, stop or contract or it
would collapse. This highly entertaining animated feature
explains today's magically perverse debt-money system in terms
that are easy to understand.
The
Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
The Community Solution - 53 minutes, 2006
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went
into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and
food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of
the creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time.
Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized,
industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of
farming and local, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the
Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call "The
Special Period."
In this important film world leading experts give us a direct
insight into what Peak Oil is really about. Retired world
experienced geologist Dr. Colin Campbell, founder of ASPO, the
Association for the Study of Peak Oil, explains the aspects of
oil discovery, the production increase and the subsequent
decline on a local as well as on a world scale. Dr Campbell
serves as our ‘anchor man’ throughout the documentary, although
he is just one of the many informed and informative analysts
featured.
Throughout this film, activist Annie Leonard, the film’s
narrator and an expert on the materials economy, examines the
social, environmental and global costs of extraction,
production, distribution, consumption and disposal. Her
illustration of a culture driven by stuff allows her to isolate
the moment in history where she says the trend of consumption
mania began. The “Story of Stuff” examines how economic policies
of the post-World War II era ushered in notions of consumerism —
and how those notions are still driving global economies today.
The
Real Dirt on Farmer John" epic tale of a maverick Midwestern
farmer. An outcast in his community, Farmer John bravely stands
amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors, and violence. By melding
the traditions of family farming with the power of art and free
expression, this powerful story of transformation and renewal
heralds a resurrection of farming in America. The movie charts the
end of this idealistic era as the farm debt crisis of the 80’s
brings about the tragic collapse of the farm. Defying all odds, the
real-life Farmer John gradually transforms his land into a
revolutionary farming community, a cultural mecca, where people work
and flourish providing fresh vegetables and herbs to thousands of
people every week. The Peterson family farm has become one of the
largest Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms in the United
States, a beacon of today’s booming organic farming movement. 
"Food,
Inc" lifts the veil the US food industry, exposing the
highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the consumer
with the consent of government regulatory agencies. The food supply
is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit
ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of farmers, the safety of
workers and the environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the
perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes
that won’t go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the
harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000
Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity,
particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among
adults. Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser
(Fast Food Nation), Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking
truths—about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we have become as a
nation and where we are going from here. 
