Waiheke Collective is hosting its fourth annual Film Festival, a captivating showcase of thought-provoking and impactful films and talks dedicated to raising awareness about environmental and social issues on Waiheke Island and beyond.
PROGRAMME
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RANGINUI: Call of the ice
Monday 20 July | Doors open 7:00 pm Film Starts 7:30 pm
Host: PutiPuti Productions, with Professor Rangi Mamatua
In a world few ever reach, Māori astronomer Rangi Matamua journeys to Antarctica’s brutal winter; an extreme, inaccessible landscape of darkness and snowstorms; to honour and share his grandfather’s message through ice, sky, and silence.
BECOMING NATURE POSITIVE + CLIMATE CHANGE VIRTUAL REALITY
Wednesday 22 July | Doors open 4:00 pm Film starts 4:30 pm
Host: Waiheke Resources Trust and Blake
Waiheke Resources Trust presents an exciting evening of film and Virtual Reality with Blake. Screening Becoming Nature Positive and the Blake Climate Change VR experience. Two inspiring experiences showcasing climate issues and solutions from across the globe and closer to home.
Watch the trailer: Becoming Nature Positive
WILDING
Thursday 23 July | Doors open: 7:00 pm Film Starts 7:30 pm
Host: Te Korowai o Waiheke
Wilding is the remarkable true story of Isabella Tree and her husband, Charlie Burrell, who took a spectacular leap of faith by giving up their failing, 400-year-old intensive farm in West Sussex, UK, and letting nature take over. By rewilding the 3,500-acre estate, they transformed degraded land into a thriving, self-sustaining ecosystem
FANTASTIC FUNGI
Friday 24 July | Doors open: 7:00 pm Film Starts 7:30 pm
Host: Kai Waiheke
Narrated by Brie Larson, Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse journey about the magical, mysterious and medicinal world of fungi and their power to heal, sustain and contribute to the regeneration of life on Earth that began 3.5 billion years ago.
OCEAN DREAMS
Saturday 25 July | Door open 4:00 pm Film starts 4:30 pm
Host: Waiheke Marine Project
From the deep fjords of Norway, where orcas teach their young to hunt, to the vibrant reefs of Raja Ampat in Indonesia, home to the richest marine biodiversity on Earth, OCEAN DREAMS reveals extraordinary underwater worlds and the inspiring efforts to protect them. Audiences will encounter wolffish guarding kelp forests and witness the remarkable resurgence of marine life in the once devastated Bikini Atoll.