Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi
"Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi is a film celebrating the keepers of the seeds, the farmers and gardeners who preserve and share the source of our food heritage.
A small crew comprising Seed Savers Network (www.seedsavers.net) directors, Australians Michel Fanton and Jude Fanton, took a hundred and sixty hours of footage in eleven countries: Spain, France, Italy, India, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands. There are interviews of farmers and expert commentators and documented seed saving, farming methods and cultural activities in both first world and tribal locations. People in advanced countries, such as Taiwan, Spain, France and Italy share the same sentiments as indigenous Pacific farmers when it comes to traditional varieties.
The film explores the relationship between traditional biodiversity and traditional culture in the wide-ranging locations and shows that there are the same problems and solutions in each of them. It is a David and Goliath story where resilience and persuasive logic triumph over seemingly invincible corporate agribusiness.
The Film encourages viewers to work in solidarity with indigenous farmers around the world to restore traditional farming and plants to their rightful place as highly important assets of local communities and indigenous peoples.
This film show's the importance of a broad genetic base of diversity in our food to achieve disease resistance, cultural preservation, better nutrition,and taste and enormous ensuing conviviality in the Pacific Region. The Film show's how important the genetic diversity these farmers hold to the whole world and future of food.
The producers of "Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi " are distributing free 1000 DVDs to tribal schools, colleges, churches, hospitals and non-government agencies in the Pacific Region. The intention is for these agencies to show the film to their constituencies out in the villages.. They will also travel to Western Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands this year to screen the film and train community workers to take it to the villages for screening. The community workers will apply the lessons of the film to their current challenges and they will inventory their unique food plants assets and start their own local seed organization or network . The film has an original English soundtrack and Pacific Pigin (a melange of Bislama of Vanuatu, Tok Pisin of PNG and Solomons Pigin). Subtitle options are English and French.
View Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPZwgjJW5xs
DVDs available to everyone here for AUD24 within Australia, AUD31 outside.
The Garden at the End of the World
the documentary on Afghanistan by Gary Caganoff
After almost a decade of much hyped international aid and
reconstruction effort, and the homecoming of millions of refugees,
Afghanistan is still experiencing widespread hunger, homelessness and
lawlessness. In ‘The Garden at the End of the World’ award winning
filmmaker Gary Caganoff follows veteran aid worker and permaculuralist
Rosemary Morrow into the very heart of Afghan suffering to document
stories of survival directly from the women and children who are
hurting the most.
For more than thirty years Rosemary has been working with war-torn
communities in South East Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. She was
invited to go to Afghanistan by Afghan/Australian Mahboba Rawi to help
build the capacity of the organisation in Kabul and to simultaneously
carry out a feasibility study for permaculture. With so much suffering
perpetuated for so long all that Afghanistan clings to now, is hope.
Fed by hope, both Rosemary's work and that of Mahboba's Promise, is to
assist the Afghani people in planting the seeds of peace in the garden
at the end of the world.
The underlying message in The Garden at the End of the World is about
sowing the seeds of peace, not just in Afghanistan, but everywhere.
Not just out in the world, but inside our selves. This is done quite
beautifully by filmmaker Gary Caganoff without using sentimentalism
nor sensationalism. The Garden at the End of the World is a powerful
and confronting film that cuts through the complexity of politics and
goes straight to the heart of humanity and its self imposed suffering
whilst moving along the eternal lines of hope.
Trailer and DVD sales at: http://www.TheGardenAtTheEndOfTheWorld.Info
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