Cinema - hosted by Karin Ridgers from veggie Vision
The Cinema is open from 11.30am - 6pm both days, showing a stunning collection of eco friendly and throught provoking films. The Cinema is hosted by the amazing Karin Ridgers of Veggie Vision fame (www.veggievision.co.uk)
The Cinema is showing the same films both days
The Line up includes
11.30 The Age Of Stupid
1.00pm PlanEat
2.30pm PlanEat discussion with the film's Directors
3.00pm Pig Business
4.00pm Africa's Green Heart
5.00pm Latin America's Green Heart
6.00pm Minority Pastime - A Letter to David Cameron
Planeat
‘PLANEAT: How to feed a planet' is a provocative challenge to our love of meat and dairy. Tracking the work of a group of scientists, doctors and environmentalists, the film forces us to confront the evidence that a heavily animal-based diet is bad for our health, the environment and the future of the planet. The film features the ground-breaking work of Dr. T Colin Campbell in China exploring the link between diet and cancer, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr's use of diet to treat heart disease patients, and Professor Gidon Eshel and Professor Peter Singer's philosophies on how to feed an ever-burgeoning population in the midst of global warming. With the help of some innovative chefs and farmers, we are shown how the problems we face today can be solved, without simply resorting to a diet of lentils and lettuce leaves.
Exclusive UK preview!!
Africa's Green Heart
Latin America's green heart
Steve Taylor is a documentary film maker and ethnographer who is making a personal and passionately recounted film trilogy of his journeys through the last remaining equatorial forests of the world. Two of these films, Africa's Green Heart and Latin America's Green Heart will be shown here, at the Eco Veggie Fayre, while Steve carries on his filming in Asia. Steve's supporters, the Bristol Ecoshow and the Ape Alliance, a Bristol-based coalition of NGOs, plan to show the complete trilogy later this year in Bristol. The Ape Alliance is a member of the GRASP - the UNEP/UNESCO Great Ape Survival Partnership which during 2010, the UN International Year of Biodiversity, is highlighting the role of primates in maintaining the health of tropical forests, which in turn are essential for maintaining climate stability at a global level.
'The film clips you can view here are short examples of material filmed in late 2008 near Odzala National Park in the northwest of Congo Brazzaville. The gorillas were filmed at a location called Ebobobo.
Click here to watch the film clips.
An essential message of the film about the Congo Basin and its diverse and rich ecosystem is to encourage Africans themselves to see their region as an essential component in the wellbeing of mankind and global climate stability, creating awareness of the necessity to coexist with our planet's fragile biodiversity. Africans are the guardians of this region and need to lead in the conservation and the protection of its wealth and ecological functions.
Another message, for the people of Bristol, is to wake us up as to how our thoughtless consumerism literally costs the earth. Steve Taylor, in Bristol to edit the films is also using his time to work with Bristol Ecoshow organisers to inspire Bristol activists and film makers to investigate the connection between our city and tropical forests.
Steve Taylor, besides recording the area's unique and endangered wildlife, also met with and listened to the people of this region. Their views and input are of the utmost importance in helping to conserve the vast tracts of equatorial rain forests. Without their support and understanding conservation within this region will not succeed. Steve Taylor began his filming in Sierra Leone as a way of showcasing what happens when nations are subjected to resource conflicts and the long-term aftermath of losing ninety five per cent of the nation's forests.
Steve Taylor's second film begins in the Andes whose glaciers feed the torrents that become the Amazon before settling on a paradise-like sequence of shots of the Peruvian Amazon, home to river-dolphins and countless other species. This is shockingly contrasted downstream with the green deserts of Brazil's TNC corporation-controlled soy crop land, once also ecologically rich jungle. Native tribal peoples live in the former areas in open walled huts, symbol of their symbiotic relationship to the more than human world, whilst Brazilian farmers live in ways we recognise as our own. The last sequence takes us to the declining glaciers of Patagonia, showing the interconnection of deforestation with global climate change.
Pig Business
Pig Business reveals the true cost of the cheap pork for sale in the UK, opening eyes to the realities of industrialised meat production and the impact of this system on the quality of our food, the environment, and the health and welfare of agricultural communities. Four years ago, seasoned campaigner, eco-warrior and mother of three Tracy Worcester set out to discover who was paying the true price for the cheap imported pork for sale in Britain's supermarkets. Documenting her investigation into intensive pig farming and the damaging impact it is having on the quality of our food, the environment, and the health and welfare of agricultural communities. Pig Business follows the Marchioness as she infiltrates farms in Europe and America and confronts the biggest firm in the pig business. The film reveals that these huge meat factories overcrowd and mistreat the animals, put small farmers out of business, and pollute the water and air, endangering the health of local residents and consumers. It's possible to change direction. Through our purchasing power, we can take back control.
