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The Age of Stupid
Classification M'The Age of Stupid' is the new cinema documentary from the Director of 'McLibel' and the Producer of the Oscar-winning 'One Day in September'. This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching 'archive' footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance.
www.ageofstupid.net
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The Cove
Classification MUsing state-of-the-art equipment like night vision HD cameras camouflaged in fake rocks and shrub, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry of Flipper TV series fame, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose the shocking instance of perennial dolphin slaughter and the serious threat to human health with the toxic meat sold around the country labeled 'whale meat'.
www.thecovemovie.com.au
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The Fox and the Child
Classification GOne autumn morning, a little girl (Bertille Noël-Bruneau) catches sight of a fox. Fascinated to the point that she forgets all fear, she dares to go up to him. For an instant, the barriers that separate the child and the animal disappear. It is the beginning of the most amazing and fabulous of friendships. Thanks to the fox, the little girl discovers a wild and secret environment. And so begins an adventure which will change her life, her vision and ours...
www.thefoxandthechildthemovie.co.uk
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Wall-E
Classification GWonderfully inventive, this whimsical sci-fi animation from the wizards at Pixar is topical in its environmental message and full of heart when it comes to its robot/ droid romance. Brilliant execution allows much of the communications throughout WALL-E to be wordless, with smartly used sound effects. While it's entertaining, amusing and heartwarming, the big surprise is that we become totally involved in the film's reality, and champion the rusty little robot that loses whatever heart he happens to have to the pristine, sleek super-model programmed droid EVE.
Andrew Stanton, the man behind Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc and Toy Story has the imagination and skills to make this creative and ingenious animated film work on many levels and while the voices may not play the key roles, it's with a tip of the hat to the sci-fi genre that Sigourney Weaver is cast as the voice of the spaceship computer. The underlying environmental message comes across strongly but never with heavy hands and the miracle of the film is that we connect with a little industrious robot that makes a difference and finds love to boot.
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Hoot
Classification GThe story of a young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls, and that a tough girl at his school named Beatrice has some connection with the barefoot boy, who has some connection with vandalism at the construction site. When they realize that a population of endangered burrowing owls is threatened by new construction the kids decide to take on crooked politicians and bumbling cops in the hope of saving their new friends.
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Travelling Birds
Classification GIn the northern hemisphere spring, migrating birds fly towards the Arctic lands, where they were born, to reproduce. Some fly without pause, others in stages. They use astronomy to navigate and are sensitive to the earth’s magnetic field. Arriving from every continent, they disperse and mate. The new chicks have to quickly learn to fly to undertake their first supreme test, the migration south to warmer climes as the Arctic summer ends. This is a film that documents some of those extraordinary airborne journeys alongside the birds.
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Garbage Warrior
Classification MShot over three years in the US, India and Mexico, the film tells the epic story of maverick American architect Michael Reynolds and his fight to introduce fully self-sustainable housing. He offers practical solutions on a local and individual scale with his crew of renegade house builders from New Mexico, and their fight to introduce radically different ways of living.
www.garbagewarrior.com
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The Burning Season
Classification PGA young Sydney entrepreneur, Dorjee Sun, travels the globe in pursuit of a carbon trading deal that could protect millions of hectares of pristine rainforest, save the orangutan from extinction - and make his fortune. Every year, there is a burning season in Indonesia. While Indonesian palm oil farmer Achmadi confronts the impact of his deliberately lit fires on climate change, Danish-born Lone Droscher-Nielsen rescues and cares for orangutans devastated by the fires. As the crisis escalates, Sun pursues a solution. His plan involves selling the carbon credits represented by large forest areas to big polluters in the West. At the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali, Dorjee relentlessly pursues his deal.
www.theburningseasonmovie.com
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Big River Man
Classification MWho is the greatest swimmer of all time? Michael Phelps? Mark Spitz? If gold medals are your barometer, then maybe, but I'd like to see either of them drink two bottles of wine a day and still swim the length of the Amazon river. This feat is attempted by Martin Strel, an endurance swimmer from Slovenia, who swims rivers—the Mississippi, the Danube, and the Yangtze to date—to highlight pollution in the world. In his fifties and rather overweight, his treacherous journey brings him face to face with many obstacles, including water predators, rapids, and toxic pollution. Spearheading the expedition is Strel's son and manager, who also becomes the film's narrator. As the days go by, Strel's physical fortitude is strained, along with his relationship with his son and his grip on reality. Part world-class sporting event, part circus sideshow, the film follows the colorful characters 3,375 miles over 66 days on history's longest, most perilous swim.Director John Maringouin explicitly understands the many dimensions of Strel's journey and crafts an almost-expressionistic portrait of the event. Utilizing breathtaking and intimate cinematography, he captures the journey along the Amazon and into the heart of Strel's darkness. Big River Man is a psychological thrill ride that works as both a humorous character study and an enlightening environmental message; it has to be seen to be believed.
www.bigriverman.com