WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2024
DOORS OPEN 5.00PM FOR 6.30PM START
Arrive early for dinner and drinks from Pasture & Co.
Includes Q&A and Panel Discussion!
Bring your besties, come hungry and meet your community tribe here @ GROUND CURRUMBIN.
Starring Joel Salatin, the iconic REGEN farmer featured in Food, Inc., and head of Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, Common Ground brings his unique voice and vision to the big screen. Salatin, who describes himself as a "Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer," is praised by many as the world’s most famous farmer, the "high priest of the pasture," and Virginia’s most eclectic thinker since Thomas Jefferson. Critics, however, label him a "bio-terrorist," "charlatan," and even "starvation advocate"—but with 12 published books and a multi-generational family farm, his impact is undeniable. Now, you can meet him on the big screen.
Common Ground, the much-anticipated sequel to Kiss the Ground, which touched over a billion people and inspired the USDA to invest $20 billion in soil health, delves deep into the tangled web of money, power, and politics that has fractured our food system. The film exposes the harmful practices driving today’s farming crisis, where farmers of all races are literally dying to feed us. But it also offers hope, spotlighting a diverse movement of White, Black, and Indigenous farmers adopting regenerative agriculture to heal the land, improve health, and restore economic stability—before it’s too late.
For decades, we’ve handed control of our food to others. Now, it’s time to truly grow together.
PREVIOUS SHOWINGS
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THE HEALING
WED 7TH AUGUST 2024
Set against the stunning backdrop of the Southern Highlands of NSW, the stakes are literally life and death for the thoroughbreds and veterans participating in the film. The two vulnerable groups are brought together by professional horseman Scott Brodie, whose unique system of retraining teaches both horses and humans new skills that build trust, patience and confidence.
The Healing has created enormous interest in Scott’s groundbreaking program, which can revolutionise the way the Australian Defence Force and Racing Industry responds to the crisis afflicting veterans and ex-racehorses. Urgent change is needed and we need to act now.
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WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
WED 5TH JUNE 2024
Short 1 - BEING THE CHANGE AT 85 - Is there an age at which you stop being an activist for change? Not according to Helen Dew! In fact, Helen’s activism didn’t even begin until she was in her 60s!
Short 2 - CREATURES OF PLACE - We’ve all dreamed of a life living off grid, off the land, no bills, no mortgage, no worries. Meet Meg Ulman, Patrick Jones, and their youngest son, Woody, living on an urban 1/4-acre section in a small Australian town.
Short 3 - BEN & BERTHA - In Ben & bEartha (or Ben and Bertha) we follow the story of passionate composter Ben Bushell of Community Compost, Nelson. Ben’s taking community composting to the next level!n goes here
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THE TRUST FALL
WED 13TH MARCH 2024
A man who risked everything to bring the truth to light. With special guest, filmmaker Kym Staton for an exclusive Q&A after the film.
The film examines the meaning and significance of the insights that WikiLeaks shared with the world, the resulting behaviour of the governments involved, the extraordinary personal risk taken by Assange, and the wider fundamental issues around press freedom that affect all of us and our right to know.
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EVICTED, A MODERN ROMANCE
WED 18TH OCT 2023 6-9PM
Sydney Film Festival people’s choice award 2022. Four spuriously employed housemates on the verge of eviction trawl Sydney's fraught rental market in search of a new place to call home in this irreverent Aussie comedy.
With an impending eviction hanging over their heads, freshly unemployed Maggie, gig-economy worker Will, and feuding couple Isabelle and May embark on a seemingly futile hunt for an affordable share house.
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GROWERS + HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION
WED 6TH SEPTEMBER 2023
A Double Documentary About Modern Day Urban Farmers & Young Homesteaders.
"GROWERS a Growing Revolution" by Award Winning film maker Charlie Wood, showcasing our future of food.
HOMEGROWN - THE HIGHEST PRODUCING URBAN FARM IN THE WORLD!
This family of eco-pioneers grow so much of their own food they sell their excess to local chefs. Come see how it's done, one garden bed at a time.
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A SIMPLER WAY: CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY
WED 5TH JULY 2023 6-9PM
A feature-length documentary that follows a community in Australia who came together to explore and demonstrate a simpler way to live in response to global crises. Throughout the year the group build tiny houses, plant veggie gardens, practice simple living, and discover the challenges of living in community.
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Joost Greenhouse
WED 1ST MARCH 2023 6-9PM
Imagine a house that grows its own food. That’s the vision of environmental campaigner Joost Bakker, once dubbed the ‘Poster Boy of Zero Waste Living’ by The New York Times. This inspiring feature documentary follows Bakker as he builds a self-sustaining home, an ecosystem that provides its occupants with food, shelter, water and energy. Filmed over a year in beautiful central Melbourne, Greenhouse is an uplifting look at the teamwork and ingenuity behind a paradigm-shifting project bursting with life. goes here
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'The Seeds of Vandana Shiva'
WED 1ST FEBRUARY 2023 6-9PM
How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest conservator become Monsanto’s worst nightmare? The Seeds of Vandana Shiva tells the remarkable life story of Gandhian eco-activist Dr. Vandana Shiva, how she stood up to the corporate Goliaths of industrial agriculture, rose to prominence in the seed saving and organic food movements, and is inspiring an international crusade for change.
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'Living the Change'
WED 9TH NOV 2022 6 - 9PM
Living the Change explores solutions to the global crises we face today – solutions any one of us can be part of – through the inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own lives and in their communities in order to live in a sustainable and regenerative way.
Our movie series is carefully curated with deep thought and determination, a hand picked selection of beautiful documentary films that will leave you yearning for more. We hope the movies inspire you to live your best life, whether you aim to be off the grid, self sufficient, get educated or just curious about different ways of doing things.
These amazing film makers and the solutions they bring might just inspire you to create your own village in your own street, town and suburb - today - together.
Movies that Matter is brought to you by Kim Oconnell, previously known for her series ‘Life Changing Events’ which started our community conversation in the Basement at HOTA in February 2009.
Thankyou for your inspiration Kim and here’s to your forever home @ Ground Currumbin.