GreenFlicks 2017

A selection of the best of short films on Environmental themes from around the world, screening in competition.

Screening: Sat 14 Jan, 4.30pm | Runtime: 112 min | Classification: under 15 yrs to be w/adult

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Big Booom

How did the universe come to life? How was the Earth born and what happened next? How will it all finish?
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Marat Narimanov
- Writer: Marat Narimanov
- Producer: Marat Narimanov
- Runtime: 4min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Russia
Horror Vacui

Why not fill that emptiness with ‘something’? Please, buy all you can!
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Daniel Sánchez Chamorro
- Writer: Daniel Sánchez Chamorro
- Producer: Daniel Sánchez Chamorro
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Spain
Corp.

Ambition, exploitation, pollution, degradation, corruption and much more in the amazing world of the free market!
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Pablo Polledri
- Writer: Pablo Polledri
- Producer: Pablo Polledri
- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Argentina
Frontera Invisible

Big Business’s rush for palm oil to produce ‘green’ fuel has displaced Colombian farmers and indigenous people.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Nico Muzi, Nicolás Richat
- Writer: Nico Muzi, Mihai Stoica, Mauro Fernandez
- Producer: Nico Muzi, Nicolás Richat
- Runtime: 28min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Argentina, Belgium
Source: Our Co-operative

Source is a cooperative business run by volunteers creating a sustainable system of food production.
NSW PREMIERE
- Director: Carly Rusden
- Writer:
- Producer: Mark Thomson
- Runtime: 9min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Australia
God’s Acre

God’s Acre is the story of an Aboriginal man living alone in the Canadian wilderness.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Kelton Stepanowich
- Writer: Kelton Stepanowich, Derek Vermillion
- Producer: Eric Janvier, Mike Mankowski, Kelton Stepanowich
- Runtime: 15min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Canada
Rangers Of The Reef

A group of dedicated local rangers in Indonesia work to protect the world’s most diverse marine ecosystem from the threats of illegal and destructive fishing.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
- Director: Brady Valashinas
- Writer: Nicholas Ellis
- Producer:
- Runtime: 14min
- Year: 2016
- Country: United States
Plantasia

Would learning that plants possess consciousness, sentience, and memory change the way we interact with the world around us?
WORLD PREMIERE
- Director: Georgia Quinn
- Writer: Georgia Quinn
- Producer: Georgia Quinn
- Runtime: 7min
- Year: 2016
- Country: Australia
Facon

Tia is an avid meat eater who is strictly a vegan hipster in public. When Tia’s judgmental vegan boyfriend invites himself to her family birthday party, Tia must find the courage to tell him her secret.

WORLD PREMIERE
- Director: Joshua Dang
- Writer: Felicity Pickering
- Producer: Joshua Dang, Felicity Pickering, Barbara Ings
- Runtime: 11min
- Year: 2015
- Country: Australia