SLFF2020
Official Selection of Sustainable Living Film Festival 2020
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- DirectorCosima DannoritzerAustralia, California, Siberia, Sweden, Portugal, Greece, Amazonia...: for more than a decade, the litany of "megafires" has been in the news, so frequently now that one catastrophe chases the previous one in people's minds. Many have forgotten that in 2016, in the oil-rich city of Fort McMurray (Canada), uncontrollable forest fires reached the city, causing the evacuation of almost all of the 100,000 inhabitants and the destruction of thousands of homes. Each year, these fires destroy more than 350 million hectares of forest, six times the size of France, and are increasingly spreading to inhabited areas. In this global investigation, Cosima Dannoritzer meets firefighters, scientists and fire experts from Europe to Indonesia, including the United States and Canada.
- DirectorLiz CanningMotherload is a crowdsourced documentary about a new mom's quest to understand and promote the cargo bike movement in a gas-powered, digital and divided world. As Liz explores the burgeoning global movement to replace cars with purpose-built bikes, she learns about the bicycle's history and potential future as the ultimate "social revolutionizer." Her experiences as a cyclist, as a mother, and in discovering the cargo bike world, teach Liz that sustainability is not necessarily about compromise and sacrifice and there are few things more empowering, in an age of consumption, than the ability to create everything from what seems to be nothing. MOTHERLOAD features unconventional production methods (including crowdsourcing from non-filmmakers), genre-bending storytelling (experimental/personal/doc), and themes of movement-building, activism and courage to "go against the grain."
- DirectorAlexander Kinnunen'Shade Grown Coffee' is the inspiring story about how growing coffee in the shade of native trees in the tropics can have a truly positive impact on local communities, halt deforestation and protect critical habitat for wildlife.
- DirectorTomas ZuccarenoHaley ThompsonHOW WE GROW is a film about ambitious young farmers building community around locally grown food.
- DirectorFredrik GerttenSylvia VollenhovenStarsMariette LiefferinkPule MolefeMpho MolefeFollows the work of activist Mariette Liefferinck and her seemingly unending struggle to mitigate the hazardous legacy of gold mining. Mountainlike dump sites of mining waste riddled with uranium covers the town of Jozi in a radioactive dust causing damage to humans and the environment alike.
- DirectorJérôme FritelThey call it 'blue gold'. Around the world, demand for water is exploding. By 2050, at least one in four will live in a country suffering from water shortages - creating ideal conditions for a new market - Banks, investment funds and hedge funds are all rushing to invest billions of euros in anything related to water. A real monopoly has begun. The financialization of water is a battle taking place on many fronts: ideological, political, environmental, and of course, economic.
- DirectorPete WilliamsStarsKevin AhearnKohl CreceliusChris J. FariaA new generation of entrepreneurs are using business to solve some of the world's biggest problems. The feature length documentary captures the journey of three millennial change-makers who are putting meaning and purpose above financial considerations as they seek to help those in need, following their path from business plan to impact delivery.
- DirectorPaolo CaselliFrancesco Ferri
- DirectorMark DecenaStarsGopal DayaneniModern production is based on extraction from the planet, and modern finance is based on extraction from the many for the benefit of the very few. What does the next economy look like and how can we rethink our relationship to resources, work and culture? Bay Area activist Gopal Dayaneni looks at how we live now, and how we can do it better.