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Our World Film Festival
A showcase of geographical filmmaking, Our World Film Festival is a visual adventure into our changing planet to promote our understanding of the geographies that we live.
The line-up for 2008 includes An Alternative Guide to Our World, The Planet and Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash.
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Booking: Tickets are now available to buy on the Odeon Website. You can also book in person or by phone.
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| An Alternative Guide to Our World |
Start time: 11:00
Tickets: £3
16 films in 60 minutes
A series of professional and amateur short films exploring alternative ways of seeing our world, this hour long session includes the geography@work film-making awards. The films include:
In Passing
The film explores the psycho-geography of the city through the experiences of a local woman who is partially blind.
Sea Level Wise
A film comparing a scientist and modern druid as they attempt to deal with climate change.
Terra 2050
People describe their hopes and fears for the future set to fantastic animations.
Victim
An animated story about a curious fly.
The Boy, The Bike and The Apple
An example of chance or fate in the South Devon countryside.
4/4
What happened when a person was left in a strange place with strange people?
+ The geography@work film making prizes:
Do you really know where you live?
The Wildlife in Our Area by Hafsa and Ladi from Southgate School
Our Community by Demetri and Alex from Southgate School
Our City: Liverpool by West Derby Year 9 students
The geography of...
Doing Nothing by Kelly, Maddy, and Amy from The Minster School
Pershore High School by Lois Godwin and Ellie Morris
Lent Rise School by Lucy, Michael, Joshua and Katie
The World Through Our Eyes by Chloe, Kate, Jessica, Hannah and Olivia from Pershore High School
Our Amazing School by Alena Vondrakova from Palacky University
Extreme Geography
Perfect Waves by Noel Jenkins
The Geography of Love by Alison Gardner and Kate Amis
Extreme Geography with Mr Unsworth by Owen Unsworth
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Directors: Linus Torell, Michael Stenberg and Johan Söderberg
Start time: 12:30
Tickets: £3
82mins + open discussion
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'Twenty nine experts from around the world give their opinion about the state of Planet Earth in visually stunning images and commentary. Their views on the consequences of the climatic, geographical and anthropological changes emerging now, demonstrate that a unique scenario is beginning to unfold, and witnessed globally. The film explores the latest facts and examples and leads us to the ultimate issue of how we will cope with the future. The film is a wake up call to the world whilst we still have time to act.' Oxdox
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| A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash |
Directors: Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack
Start time: 14:30
Tickets: £3
85mins + open discussion
'A Crude Awakening is an informative and unashamedly apocalyptic documentary about the world's obsession with oil that makes An Inconvenient Truth look positively chipper. In less than 90 minutes of grim prognostications and terrifying statistics we are reminded that the planet’s oil reserves are fatally understocked and that we are all doomed.' The Times
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| A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash |
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| About Our World Film Festival |
The purpose of the festival is to promote Geography in the UK and on the fringe of the Geographical Association's annual conference which is taking place in Guildford this year.
Our World Film Festival is organised by the Give Geography its Place campaign and is supported by the Geographical Association. The geography@work film-making competition is sponsored by geography@work from Folens.
Our World Film Festival will be taking place on the fringe of the Geographical Association conference in Manchester next year.
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If you have any questions about the Film Festival, please contact Dan Raven-Ellison.
(Updated 06.03.08)
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