Green Film Festival for Horsham
28th September to 26th October
This Autumn, sees the launch of the first Green Film Festival for Horsham, brought to you by Sussex Green Living. With a series of films covering key environmental issues and solutions from Kelp restoration to rewilding.
Each event will have an interactive element to them as well as the screening and the events take place on Wednesday evenings from 28th September to 26th October 2022.
Wednesday 28th September 7.30pm
Kiss the Ground Documentary Educational Version (45 minutes)
Venue: Christs Hospital on 28th (for the following four Wednesday venue Trafalgar Road Baptist Church).
Green Film Fest for Horsham is a month of environmentally focus filmed to challenge and inspire us. It launches with the documentary Kiss the Ground.
Narrated and featuring Woody Harrelson, Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis.
Wednesday 5th October 7.30pm
The Seeds of Vandana Shiva (80 minutes) followed by seed swap even by Transition Horsham and Allotment Groups
Venue: Trafalgar Road Baptist Church, Trafalgar Road, Horsham, RH12 2QL
How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest conservator become the world’s most powerful opponent of Monsanto? The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, a feature-length documentary, presents the remarkable life story of the Gandhian eco-activist and agro-ecologist, Vandana Shiva.
Vandana Shiva is a modern-day revolutionary, and for forty years has been fighting a heroic battle on behalf of humanity and the ecologically besieged natural systems that support us. But she is opposed by powerful multinational corporations invested in continuing their degenerative but lucrative agricultural practices. By profiling one of the greatest activists of modern times, the film looks at the epic struggle over who controls the world’s food systems, and asks the question, who will prevail?
Wednesday 12th October 7.30pm
Riverwoods (55 minutes) plus conversation with Tony Whitbread, President of Sussex Wildlife Trust
Venue: Trafalgar Road Baptist Church, Trafalgar Road, Horsham, RH12 2QL
Three years in the making, Riverwoods is a feature-length documentary that shines a light on the perilous state of Scotland’s salmon and tells the compelling story of an inextricable relationship between fish and forest.
We’ve brought together a group of expert scientists, writers and filmmakers to tell a story of loss and lament, but also one of hope. Throughout Scotland, the fractured connections between salmon and the landscapes through which their rivers flow, are gradually being repaired through the foresight and positive actions of many different people.
Riverwoods is a rallying call for restoring more of Scotland’s river catchments and all the life they support.
The salmon need the forest. The forest needs the salmon. And Scotland needs them both.
Wednesday 19th October 7.30pm
KELP! 2022 (by Caylon La Mantia); Sussex Seabed Restoration Project (by Steve Allnut); HELP OUR KELP (by Sussex Wildlife Trust & Sir David Attenborough plus a Q&A with filmakers
Venue: Trafalgar Road Baptist Church, Trafalgar Road, Horsham, RH12 2QL
KELP! 2022 (by Caylon La Mantia 30 mins)
Under the looming shadow of ecological breakdown, a young aspiring filmmaker goes in search of a surprising super-solution that can help build a better future for humans and the planet… Join her and the crew on an epic visual journey aboard the good ship Gleaner through Britain’s rugged wild coastline, from beneath the waves to under the microscope, as they discover the power of Kelp to regenerate our coasts, empower communities and capture a whole load of Carbon.
Sussex Seabed Restoration Project (by Steve Allnut 30 mins)
The Sussex Seabed Restoration Project is a collaboration of national and local organisations taking an evidence-based approach to tackle the challenges to the restoration of Sussex kelp. This film shows the project’s progress.
Help our Kelp (by Sussex Wildlife Trust & Sir David Attenborough (7mins)
Sir David Attenborough backed the pioneering campaign from the Sussex Wildlife Trust to restore a vast underwater kelp forest off the Sussex coast. Historically, Kelp was abundant along the West Sussex coastline, but this important habitat has diminished over time.
Wednesday 26th October 7.30pm
Three short films examining our climate, as well as nature and rewilding in Sussex with: Sir Patrick Vallance Climate Briefing to UK MPs July 2022 (55 mins); Nature Mapping Steyning (by Geoff Barnard, Phil Birch and Ronnie Reed 15 mins); Rewilding Sussex 2022 (by UNA C&O 30 mins)
Plus conversation with the film makers.
Venue: Trafalgar Road Baptist Church, Trafalgar Road, Horsham, RH12 2QL
Sir Patrick Vallance Climate Briefing to UK MPs July 2022
Mapping Steyning 2021 (by Geoff Barnard, Phil Birch and Ronnie Reed)
This film tells the story of Nature Map. It explains why it was made, how it was done, and what it tells us about the precious countryside around Steyning, Bramber and Beeding – and how we can help preserve it if we work together.
Revival: Stories of Rewilding Sussex by youth council members of the United Nations Association Climate & Oceans
The film is a youth-made documentary which explores rewilding projects in their emergent forms throughout Sussex, across the clays to chalks to seabeds. The film asks how these projects work, who the people behind them are, what nature-based successes have been seen already and contextualises the sites within the bigger picture of the ecological crises. The documentary demonstrates that the scale of a site doesn’t put limits on a project, instead shaping it and offering opportunities as diverse as the landscape. The film hopes to serve as a call to action for more widespread rewilding and a joining up of efforts so that what precious nature remains can do more than try to survive, but even thrive when efforts are made.
