The Transitions Film Festival returns to Cinema Nova, in the Victorian state capital Melbourne, this February, with an inspiring program of world-changing documentaries.
This year’s festival includes two world premieres and seven films making their Australian screen debut.
The festival begins on February 15 with free screenings on the Big Screen at Melbourne’s iconic Federation Square before moving to Cinema Nova for a week, concluding with an innovative weekend of Cinema By Demand screenings.
The films in this year’s Transitions Film Festival highlight the power, commitment and fortitude of individuals pushing themselves, against the odds, to create change:
Aim High in Creation follows an Australian filmmaker who infiltrates the impenetrable borders of North Korea on the quest to fight fracking,
Easy Like Water tells the fascinating tale of an entrepreneur creating floating schools for submerged cities in Bangladesh, Musicwood tracks the most famous guitar-makers in the world on a jungle quest to save the acoustic guitar, and Project Wild Thing follows a man on a mission to ‘sell’ nature to children.
The power of youth is highlighted in Revolutionary Optimists, which tells the story of slum children who bring potable water to their village for the first time, while Growing Cities follows a team of students travelling the United States in search of a solution to the global food crisis.
Last Call tells the story of a team of young scientists challenging the fundamental assumptions of our civilisation and Future of Energy showcases inspirational stories of the community groups that are laying the foundations for an international energy revolution that is taking off around the world.
Key festival guests include: the director of Aim High in Creation, Anna Broinowski, the not-for-profit bar-owning social entrepreneur who raised $50,000 by sitting on a toilet for 50 hours, Simon ‘Who Gives a Crap’ Griffiths, champions of the people-powered energy revolution Theo Badashi and Maximilian DeArmon, from the US, the founder of the ‘pay what you feel’ restaurant chain ‘Lentil as Anything’, Shanaka Fernando and CEO of Australia’s largest youth-run organisation, Viv Benjamin.
Tickets are available now through the Cinema Nova website – http://www.cinemanova.com.au/catalogue/transitions-film-festival/.
Discount tickets are on offer again this year for (re)cyclists, with concession priced tickets being rewarded to patrons who ride their bike to the cinema or bring in an old phone to recycle.
In addition to the core program, Transitions Film Festival is also bringing participatory programming to Australia in 2014 by including a weekend of ‘Cinema by Demand’.
The festival will be using the crowd-funding platform Start Some Good to expand the festival program based on audience demand.
Tickets for ‘by demand’ screenings will be available from January 15 until February 10 with successfully supported screenings to take place on February 22 and 23.
The Transitions Film Festival is Australia’s largest sustainability film festival, dedicated to showcasing inspirational documentaries about the social and technological innovations, revolutionary ideas and trailblazing change-makers that are leading the way to a better world.
Full program available at www.transitionsfilmfestival.com
