The SA Eco Film Festival will bring the world’s best documentary films with environmental themes to South African audiences from 26 March to 2 April.
“We’ve branched out,” says Andreas Wilson-Späth of While You Were Sleeping, the non profit organisation behind the event. “After last year’s enthusiastic reception of the Cape Town Eco Film Festival, we’ve gone nation-wide, sprouting offshoots in three additional venues around the country.
Our mission remains the same: to raise awareness about the many pressing environmental issues the planet is facing through the amazing medium of documentary film.
We’ve put together a world-class selection of films that both entertain and educate.”
How can parents get their kids away from electronic screens and into nature? What are the thousands of industrial chemicals we are constantly surrounded by doing to our bodies? Will sharks survive humanity’s seemingly insatiable hunger for shark fin soup? These are just some of the questions the films in this year’s festival line-up ask and try to answer.
The programme includes more than 25 beautifully shot, thought-provoking short and feature-length documentaries – 12 of which have never been seen in South Africa before.
WHERE: The Labia Theatre, 68 Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town 8001
INFO: E labiatheatre@telkomsa.net T 021 424 5927 or Visit
TICKETS: R45 though Webtickets or call the Labia box office: 021 424 5927
All films at the Labia Theatre will be followed by an informal audience discussion or Q&A session.
The South African Eco Film Festival is sponsored by Reliance Compost
PROGRAMME:
Thursday 26 March
11am: Living Creatures Great and Small (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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2.30pm: How I Became an Elephant (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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6.15pm: Love Thy Nature
screens with Julia Roberts is Mother Nature and (En)Snared
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Friday 27 March
11am: Small Seeds Hold Great Potential (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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2.30pm: Life Elsewhere (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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6.15pm: Unacceptable Levels
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8.15pm: Trashed
Q&A with Muna Lakani, Institute for Zero Waste in Africa.
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Saturday 28 March
10am: Eco Films by Kids & Green Heroes (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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12am: Be the Change (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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2pm Voices of Transition
screens with Abalimi
Q&A with filmmakers Todd A. Somodevilla and Marysia Makowska.
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4pm: Real Value
screens with Edward Norton is Soil
Sponsored by Velocity Trade.
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6.15pm: Project Wild Thing
screens with Msobomvu
Q&A with Gray Maguire from Project 90×2030 and filmmakers Sara CF de Gouveia and Kofi Zwana.
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8.30pm: Earth Hour
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Sunday 29 March
10am: Wild World (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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12am: Natural Connections (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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2.30pm: How I Became an Elephant (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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4pm: Cowspiracy
screens with Once Upon a Time
Presented by Fry’s Family Foods
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6.15pm: Return of the River
screens with Penélope Cruz is Water and The Artist
Q&A with Ebraime Hull and filmmakers Laurence Dworkin and Tonia Selley.
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8.15pm: A Will for the Woods
screens with Robert Redford is The Redwood
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Monday 30 March
11am: Living Creatures Great and Small (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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2.30pm: Life Elsewhere (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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6.15pm: Black Ice
screens with Harrison Ford is The Ocean and Forest Man
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Tuesday 31 March
11am: Small Seeds Hold Great Potential (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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2.30pm: Natural Connections (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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6.15pm: Extinction Soup
screens with Ian Somerhalder is Coral Reef and Stepping Stones
Q&A with our international guest and executive producer of Extinction Soup, Stefanie Brendl and Dr Eleanor Yeld Hutchings, of the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Education Centre, Kalk Bay, as well as Bongani Mnisi and filmmaker Laurence Dworkin.
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Wednesday 1 April
11am: Wild World (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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2.30pm: Eco Films by Kids & Green Heroes (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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6.15pm: Wrenched
screens with Kevin Spacey is The Rainforest
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Thursday 2 April
11am: Be the Change (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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2.30pm: Living Creatures Great and Small (Eco Kids Film Initiative)
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6.15pm: Just Eat It
screens with Lupita Nyong’o is Flower and Food Forward
Q&A with Nicholas Wiid from 110% Green
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