What is Earthnotes?
This year sees the launch of Earthnotes, an environmental documentary film festival presented by the Dlist online information sharing community. The Earthnotes programme includes both local and international documentaries, many of them award-winning, that take us on a challenging global tour.
 Why Earthnotes?
The Earth is changing. Everyday we are reminded of dwindling fish stocks, polluted air, forests disappearing, rising temperatures, contaminated rivers, mountains of waste generated every year… the list is endless.
A growing world population and our demanding lifestyles are putting tremendous pressure on the Earth. We can choose to close our eyes and ignore this, or to recognise that we are part of both the problems AND the solutions. Earthnotes is an invitation to us all to open our eyes.
Through a series of striking environmental documentaries, Earthnotes brings you images that carry messages of caution about the state of the Earth, making us think and talk. Images that carry a note of hope for the Earth and that make us act.
Where and When?
Earthnotes kicked-off in Cape Town and is now traveling up along the coast of South Africa and Namibia to a number of towns, where interested DLIST users will organise local showings. Showings for schools will also be promoted.
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Earthnotes is now on the road:
We’ve packed the environmental documentaries in a box and are sending it to towns along the west coast of South Africa and Namibia and beyond. Watch this space for updates on Earthnotes festivals.
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Doring Bay, South Africa
16 October to 1 November
School and general public screenings in Lamberts Bay, Doring Bay, Strandfontein, Papendorp, Vredendal and Lutzville. For more information please contact Suzanne du Plessis from Friends of DST on 027 215 1685 or at kwela@intekom.co.za
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Durban, South Africa
9 to 16 November
Screenings at the KwaSuka Cinema Theatre For more information please contact Oliver Meth at olivermeth@hotmail.comor on 076 473 6555
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Johannesburg, South Africa
12 to 16 November
Screenings during the Endangered Wildlife Trust's Conservation Week.
For more information please contact Bernice McLean from EWT at bernicem@ewt.org.za
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Toamasina, Madagascar
3 to 12 November
Screenings at the University of Toamasina
For more information please contact Tsiadino Chaplain TOTO at ttsiadino@yahoo.com
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Richtersveld, South Africa
3 to 9 December
Screenings in Eksteenfontein and Kuboes For more information please contact Joani Cloete from the Richtersveld Community Conservancy on (027) 851 7026/ 7082 or info@richtersveld-conservancy.org
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Plettenberg Bay and Kwanokuthula, South Africa
23 to 28 November
Screenings at the Kwanokuthula Community Hall and The White House Theatre in Plettenberg Bay
For more information please contact Galeo Saintz on 082 888 8181 or at galeo@galeosaintz.com
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Knysna, South Africa
26 to 29 November
Screenings at Oakhill School, the Knysna Correctional Services and Knysna Library For more information please contact Joslyn Warnick at 044 382 2095 or JoslynW@sanparks.co.za
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Calitzdorp, South Africa
15 to 17 December
Screenings by the Calitzdorp Museum at the Spekboom Cottages
For more information please contact Neil Curry at 044 21-33414 or 044 21-33474
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For more about the Earthnotes festival, please contact the DLIST team at
email: admin@dlist-benguela.org
tel: 021 448 3778
The Documentaries:
Earthnotes this year gives special attention to the subject of oceans and water (Blue Earth). However, screenings also include documentaries on global issues such as climate change and urbanisation (Global Notes) and African coastal and inland landscapes (African Notes). A list of the films in each section is provided below. You will find a description of each documentary, by clicking on any of the three section headings.
Discussion on the topics featured will be stirred up by Q&A sessions following some of the screenings, and will continue on DLIST beyond the festival.
Blue Earth
- A World Without Water
- Water and Autonomy
- Farming the Seas
- The World’s Large Marine Ecosystems
- Under Antarctic Ice
[ read more ]
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Global Notes
- Crude Impact
- Source
- The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It
- Baraka
- The Gathering-Return of the Whale Dreamers
- A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil
- Black Gold
- Temengor: Biodiversity in the face of danger
- The Future of Food
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African Notes
- The Elephant, the Emperor and the Butterfly Tree
- Paradise Under Pressure
- Tracks
- A Last Glimpse: Desert Coast
- Vanishing Waters
- A Last Glimpse: Cape of Storms
- BCLME, Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem
- A Hell of Fishing
- Conversing with Aotearoa/ New Zealand
- A Fragile Harmony – The West Coast National Park
- Knysna: The embattled Estuary
- Buried in Earthskin
- Getting our Land Back
[ read more ]
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