Green Film Night

Two New Zealand Films Encounter the World

Made by five New Zealanders, the documentary Now we are fearless, tells of the struggle by untouchable and Tribal women against injustice and discrimination in Tamil Nadu, Southern India. With the support of the Women’s Development Resource Centre (WDRC) untouchable women in over 300 villages and communities have discovered the effectiveness of collective action to bring about dramatic improvements in their lives. By working in their village communities or sanghams, they have shared their experiences and joined together to break down caste barriers and free themselves and their families from indentured labour. (30 mins)

This compelling documentary will be followed by a showing of, Lessons from a Melting Icecap.
In mid 2007, three Dunedin girls won a big national prize, and soon found themselves on a plane taking them more than halfway around the world. Lessons from a Melting Icecap follows Annika Metua, Peggy Russell and Susan Smirk on a journey from Dunedin to London, and on to Greenland. It's on the isolated east coast of the world's biggest island, standing at the edge of a 1.8 million square kilometre icecap, that they came face to face with the harsh realities of climate change. They realise the impact that changing weather patterns are having, not only on the physical landscape, but also on the traditional life in these tiny settlements.
They see also the impact of Western values and Western ways of life on Greenland and it's people. And yet, is Greenland really only a victim of this climate mess?

And then they start to question the way we do things back home. The impacts of climate change seem so distant from small-town New Zealand. But how safe are we really? And what can a young person in New Zealand do about it?
Lessons from a Melting Icecap takes the huge, often intangible issues of climate change, sustainability and our reliance on oil, and gives them a human face - a young, hopeful, very Kiwi one.

 $10 waged $7 unwaged