Best Of ShAFF - Blue Heart & Takayna - Sheffield
13th Sep 2018
Two different films, each with an environmental story to tell.
Takayna (37 minutes)
What if running Could Save A Rainforest?
Takayna / Tarkine in northwestern Tasmania is home to one of the last tracts of old-growth rainforest in the world, yet it’s currently at the mercy of destructive extraction industries, including logging and mining. This documentary unpacks the complexities of modern conservation and challenges us to consider the importance of our last wild places.
Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZPBZ46ov0s
Blue Heart (44 minutes)
The Balkan Peninsula is home to the last wild rivers in Europe. However, a deluge of hydropower development threatens to destroy the culture and ecology of this forgotten region. If fierce local opposition fails, the last undammed watersheds on the continent will be corralled by more than 3,000 proposed hydropower dams and diversions—at a time when dams are being decommissioned throughout much of the developed world.
Activists, who span the shores of these rivers, and European NGOs such as RiverWatch (run by German activist Ulrich Eichelmann), are fighting against local government corruption and foreign investment. Blue Heart documents the battle for the largest undammed river in Europe, Albania’s Vjosa, the effort to save the endangered Balkan lynx in Macedonia, and the women of Kruščica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, who are spearheading a months-long, 24/7 protest to protect their community’s only source of drinking water. These and other stories expose for the first time the gravest impending environmental disaster in Europe. Tell International Banks to Stop Investing in the Destruction of Europe’s Last Wild Rivers.
Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LadlBg9bmfg