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Shared Planet is full of exciting workshops and speakers, but we also have some amazing films to inspire you and bring key issues around poverty, human rights and the environment to life!
H2OIL
A feature length film about Canada’s Athabasca tarsands. The most polluting source of oil on the planet. Our opening speakers are indigenous activists directly affected by the tarsands project. This film is an insight into how tarsands extraction is destroying lives, communities and the environment.
The Age of Stupid
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?
Burma VJ
Burma VJ recounts the efforts of a small group of independent video journalists who risked torture and life in jail to ensure the truth behind the country’s 2007 political uprising was broadcast to the world. Led by hundreds of Buddhist monks, more than 100,000 people marched peacefully against the military junta that has held the country in an iron grip for 40 years. The protesters and the monks suffered a merciless crack down as a result.
Pig Buisness plus Q&A
This is an exposé of the pig meat industry in the US, Poland and the UK. It reveals the hidden costs behind much of the meat on our supermarket shelves. Vast factory operations mistreat and overcrowd animals, poison local residents, destroy local farming communities, and spread contagious diseases like pig MRSA and swine flu which now threaten the entire human population.
The Yes Men: Fix the World
The Yes Men: Fix the World is a screwball true story that follows two political activists as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that point out how corporate greed is destroying the planet. Along the way the duo uncover the culprits behind the cult of greed. But can they find a way for everyone to defeat the cult and save civilization from its own worst excesses?
Our Home is Burning - live performance with creator Mat Hourteillan
Our Home is Burning aims to protect the environment through a new kind of audiovisual performance. A live show combining original music and VJing (live video mixing). The result is a mind blowing event, somewhere between a movie experience and a concert.
The Coconut Revolution plus Q&A with Carlos Soto Perotti, one of the film creators
This is the modern-day story of a native peoples’ remarkable victory over Western Colonial power. A Pacific island rose up in arms against giant mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) - and won, despite a military occupation and blockade. This empowered the community to go ‘self-sufficient’ including the making of bio-diesel from coconut oil.
