Film

Venue

Date

Energy Crossroads: A Burning Need to Change Course

(2007 Christophe Fauchere 56mins)

Documentary: As our global population and its appetite for energy rise drastically, resource depletion and global climate change have become the most pressing issues facing humanity today. Scientists and experts agree that the use of renewable energy, coupled with higher efficiency and conservation, will be key factors in preserving our quality of life and paving the way to a sustainable world for our children. Will America be up to the task as it consumes 25% of the world’s energy, 85% of which comes from non-renewable fossil fuels?

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FREE

Thur 17^th Sept

Energy Crossroads: A Burning Need to Change Course

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FREE

Sun 20^th Sept

                     DOUBLE BILL

Peak Oil imposed by nature   (2005 Amund Prestegard 30mins)

This  is an excellent introduction to the causes and consequences of the terminal decline of global oil production as we reach the global Peak, expected in 2007 - 2010. In the documentary retired world experienced geologist Dr. Colin Campbell, founder of ASPO, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil, explains the aspects of oil discovery, the production increase and the subsequent decline on a local as well as on a world scale. Dr Campbell serves as our ‘anchor man’ throughout the documentary, although he is just one of the many informed and informative analysts featured

The Story of Stuff  (with Annie Leonard 20 mins)

An animated film which has made a global splash since it was first launched on-line. This is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The film exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

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FREE

Sun 4^th Oct

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

(2006 Basil Gelpke  & Ray McCormack 86mins)

A Crude Awakening offers the argument that the era of cheap oil is in the past, exploring the uncomfortable realities of a world that is addicted to fossil fuels. As Stanford professor Terry Lynn Karl explains, "More and more oil is going to come from less and less stable places...places that actually challenge the taking of oil in the first place." One of the more chilling revelations concerns the discrepancy between the reserves oil-producing nations claim they possess and the actual amount. These padded estimates allow them to drill with impunity, leading to an abundance of wealth in the short term and cataclysmic consequences once they've depleted their supply of this non-renewable resource. Featuring a haunting score by Phillip Glass and a fascinating array of rare archival footage, the film explores oil's rocky relationship with human progress in locales ranging  from ancient Baku, Azerbaijan to dusty oil patch town McCamey, Texas.

FOOTBALL CLUB

FREE

Thur 15^th Oct

A Crude Awakening The Oil Crash

Greyhound

FREE

Sun 18^th Oct

HOME 1hr 

An ode to the planet's beauty and its delicate harmony. Through the landscapes of 54 countries captured from above, Yann Arthus-Bertrand takes us on a unique journey all around the planet, to contemplate it and to understand it. But HOME is more than a documentary with a message, it is a magnificent movie in its own right. Every breathtaking shot shows the Earth - our Earth - as we have never seen it before. Every image shows the Earth's treasures we are destroying and all the wonders we can still preserve. "From the sky, there's less need for explanations". Our vision becomes more immediate, intuitive and emotional. HOME has an impact on anyone who sees it. It awakens in us the awareness that is needed to change the way we see the world. (HOME embraces the major ecological issues that confront us and shows how everything on our planet is interconnected.)

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FREE

Sun 1^st Nov

How to Save the World, One Man, One Cow, One Planet

(2008 Thomas & Barbara Burstyn 104 mins)

Modern agriculture causes topsoil to be eroded at 3 million tons per hour. (that’s 26 billion tons a year)

Human mass is replacing biomass and other species. The carrying capacity of the earth is almost spent.

To maintain our comfort zone lifestyles we will soon need five earths to sustain us in the style to which we have become accustomed.

The mantra of free trade has failed the world’s poor. There is a better way.

Human created climate change is destroying the Planet. Ecosystems collapse is not some sci-fi fantasy. It is real and it is happening. Right now.

Biodynamic agriculture may be the only answer we have left.

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FREE

Sun 15^th Nov

The Age of Stupid (2009 Dir Franny Armstrong 90 mins)

Shown in partnership with Essex University Inter Disciplinary Centre for Environment and Society (iCES)

'The Age of Stupid' is the new cinema documentary from the Director of 'McLibel' and the Producer of the Oscar-winning 'One Day in September'. This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching 'archive' footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance?

FOOTBALL CLUB

£4 entry

Thur 19^th Nov

Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

(2006 Dir Faith Morgan 53 mins)

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half – and food by 80 percent – people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local, urban gardens. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call "The Special Period." The film opens with a short history of Peak Oil, a term for the time in our history when world oil production will reach its all-time peak and begin to decline forever. Cuba, the only country that has faced such a crisis – the massive reduction of fossil fuels – is an example of options and hope.

Greyhound

FREE

Sun 29^th Nov

In Transition (2009 Transition Network 50 mins) Inspiring film depicting practical projects and work in progress from dozens of Transition communities across the world. A practical vision for creating a post-consumer society where ordinary people can make a difference.

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£4 entry

Sun 13^th Dec