Your Planet: Climate and Environment Shorts
Eleven short documentaries showcasing people and communities creating solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing our environment.
Babanil, short documentary. The beautiful lower Martuwarra Fitzroy River, in the Kimberley region, is a place rich in culture that the Nyikina people have cared for over many generations.
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Ages: All ages
From wildlife defenders to waste warriors, from valleys to reefs, to powerful stories from First Nations filmmakers – these short documentaries will transport you across Australia and showcase people and communities creating solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing the environment.
Join us for a special Sydney Film Festival screening of the Your Planet: Climate and Environment Shorts. Afterwards, meet some of the filmmakers behind these unique films with a panel presentation by the AM’s Dr Jenny Newell, Curator of Climate Change at the Climate Solutions Centre. The panel will include Christopher McCormack (Wing Threads), Marlikka Perdrisat (Babanil), Elsie Shaw (Mad About Maggots) and ABC’s Teri Calder.
Short documentaries
From wildlife defenders to waste warriors, from valleys to reefs, to powerful stories from First Nations filmmakers, these short documentaries will transport you across Australia and showcase people and communities creating solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing our environment.
After the Smoke
Wendy Farmer, housewife turned activist and founder of Voices of the Valley, recounts how the devastating Hazelwood mine fire led her to find her voice as an activist.
Babanil
The beautiful lower Martuwarra Fitzroy River, in the Kimberley region, is a place rich in culture that the Nyikina people have cared for over many generations.
For Frogs Sake
The story of two female conservationists fighting against time to save the endangered and elusive Giant Burrowing Frogs in regional Victoria.
Mad about Maggots
One third of the food produced every year is thrown away. Because of this, food waste makes up 30 percent of global emissions. Luke Wheat has decided to do something about it.
Mamirnikuwi
After discovering that her home on the Tiwi Islands is at risk from a huge gas project, Antonia Burke mobilises her community creating the first ever Tiwi Women’s Ranger group.
Nyarrrparala Malaju
Mala (the Rufous Hare-Wallaby) are very important ancestors in Warlpiri people’s Jukurrpa (Dreaming). So what happens when there are no more Mala?
The Number 2 Solution
Brisbane-based scientists build Australia’s first facility to transform human waste into renewable energy and a sustainable product called Biochar.
The Oyster Gardener
Jolie, a grade-12 student and aspiring marine biologist, joins forces with her community to bring back the lost oyster reefs of the Noosa River.
Power to Country
A portrait of life thrown into crisis by energy insecurity, Power to Country tells the story of Garrwa woman Shirley’s displacement from traditional homelands and her yearning to return.
Road Kill Warriors
400,000 animals are killed on Tasmanian roads every year. Meet the women who are tackling this issue in unique and sometimes controversial ways.
Wing Threads
Zoologist turned microlight pilot, Amellia Formby, is on a mission to share her love for migratory shorebirds, whilst searching for solutions to the many threats they face.
