Reel Earth: greening the screen

Screen Hub
Tuesday 27 April, 2010

Palmerston North’s Reel Earth festival has announced its 2010 programme. Billed as the Southern Hemisphere’s largest environmental film festival, 10 Kiwi films will screen as part of the programme.

The festival attracted more than 200 submissions from over 40 countries. 78 films were selected, with 18 nominated in the award categories of Short Films (up to 15 minutes); Short Films (15 to 45 minutes); Features; and New Zealand-made.

With 17 films selected overall and 4 award nominations, the US had the most entires after NZ, which some might consider ironic given the festival's theme.

Reel Earth’s sixth season will open with a ‘Green Carpet’ gala night at Palmerston North’s Regent on Broadway Theatre on 22 May when the awards will be announced. Robyn Malcolm will do the honours, MCing the event.

The festival runs to 5 June, followed by a tour of winners and other selected films. Dates and venues for the tour will be announced at the gala opening 22 May.

Reel Earth has also put together a 90 minute programme of festival highlights, which will tour to over 1800 schools nationwide. The programme will be delivered on hard drive, with each screening hosted. Reel Earth key sponsors (Palmerston North City Council, Massey University and Westpac) will fund the schools programme.

The NZ films selected for the festival are:

Features
The Unnatural History of the Kakapo Scott Mouat
Poisoning Paradise—Ecocide New Zealand Clyde Graf

Shorts
Plato's Cave J. Ollie Lucks
1080 Peter Holmes and Steve Ting
Carving The Future Guy Ryan and Nick Holmes
Albatrocity Ian Frengley and Edi Saltau
Love In Cold Blood Jane Adcroft

Ultra Short Films
The Night Shift James Muir
Vegetables From The Sea Adam Hermans
The Break Up Charlee Collins



The full festival programme is here.

The award nominees are:

Feature Films
The Unnatural History of the Kakapo (New Zealand) Scott Mouat
The Legend of Pale Male (Luxenbourg) Frederick Lillien
Call of Life (USA) Monte Thompson
Milking the Rhino (USA) David E Simpson
The Age OF Stupid (UK) Franny Armstrong & Lizzie Gillette

NZ Films
The Unnatural History of the Kakapo Scott Mouat
Carving The Future Guy Ryan and Nick Holmes
Albatrocity Ian Frengley and Edi Saltau
Love In Cold Blood Jane Adcroft
Vegetables From The Sea Adam Hermans

Short Films
Varmints (UK) Mark Craste
A Simple Question: The Story of STRAW (USA) Kevin White and David Donnenfield
Carving the Future (New Zealand) Guy Ryan and Nick Holmes
Albatrocity (New Zealand) Ian Frengley and Edi Saltau
CUD (USA) Joe York
Lines of Flight (UK) Sal Brown
Love in Cold Blood (New Zealand) Jane Adcroft

Ultra Short Films
Vegetables From The Sea (New Zealand) Adam Hermans
Lebensader/Vein of Life (Germany) Angela Steffen Lebensader
Flood Children of Holdibari (Bangladesh) Mary Matheson
Dark Clouds (UK) Peter Szewczyk
Rethink The Shark (South Africa) Erica Brumage
The Break Up (New Zealand) Charlee Collins

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