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The Happen Films team is made up of Jordan, Antoinette, Anna and Nick. Read more about us. ABOUT HAPPEN FILMS We’re currently living through an exceptional time in human history, where what we’ve known as normal is breaking down due to environmental, cultural, and social limits being reached. This metacrisis has created the conditions for a massive global shift in the way we relate to the world and each other. We need to transition to not just living ‘sustainably’, but in a way that heals and regenerates the damage that’s being done. So how do we go about this? Exploring this question is what Happen Films was founded upon. We make films because we believe it’s the most powerful way we can share new ways of thinking, being, and doing. Happen Films has been our way of contributing toward creating a new story for humanity to live by, so that all of Earth’s creatures can thrive. Currently we're taking a break from making new films. We'll update the website if there are new releases coming after 2026. Meet the Happen Films team Jordan Osmond In his mid-teens, growing up in Ballarat, Jordan was struck by how documentary films were having an impact on how he saw the world and lived his life. He wanted to get behind the camera and have a positive impact on the lives of others. Show More Antoinette Wilson Born in Tasmania, raised in Aotearoa New Zealand, Antoinette left university for a career in book publishing that lasted 20 years. As her understanding of the state of planet and human health developed, a journey of exploration led her to a change in career that began with work in a market garden and completing her permaculture design certificate. Show More Anna Veale Anna fills the role of Editing Assistant alongside her soundie role when she’s able to join on film shoots. Growing up in Christchurch listening to Radio New Zealand and pottering in her mother’s vegetable garden Anna developed a love for the environment and public broadcasting. Show More Nick Tucker Nick uses his skills in communication, positioning and strategy to the production and promotion of Happen Films content. Growing up on the family dairy farm in southern England, Nick’s love for the outdoors – and the plants and creatures that live there – began early. Show More

This is the Happen Films Privacy Policy statement. PRIVACY POLICY This is the privacy notice of Happen Films Limited . In this document, “we”, “our”, or “us” refer to Happen Films . We are company number 9429047411630 registered in New Zealand . Our registered office is at 324 Wills Road, Upper Moutere, 7175. This privacy notice aims to inform you about how we collect and handle any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us. It covers both information that could identify you (“personal information”) and information that could not. We are extremely concerned to protect your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all users of our website are quite rightly concerned to know that their data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party. Our policy is both specific and strict. It complies with New Zealand law and with the laws of all jurisdictions of which we are aware . If you think our policy falls short of your expectations or that we are failing to abide by our policy, do get in touch by visiting the Contact page on this website . We regret that if there are one or more points below with which you are not happy, your only recourse is to leave our website immediately. Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any personally identifiable information collected at our website. Privacy policy and notice Here is a list of the information we collect from you, either through our website or because you give it to us in some other way, and why it is necessary to collect it: Business and personal information This includes basic identification and contact information, such as your name and contact details and also includes all information given to us in the course of your business and ours, such as information you give us in your capacity as our client. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the information and of the terms of our relationship. It is not used for any other purpose. We expect you to reciprocate this policy. This information is used: to provide you with the services which you request; for verifying your identity for security purposes; for marketing our services and products; information which does not identify any individual may be used in a general way by us or third parties, to provide class information, for example relating to demographics or usage of a particular page or service. We keep information, which forms part of our business record for a minimum of seven years. That is because we may need it in some way to support a claim or defence in court. That is also the period within which our tax collecting authorities may demand to know it. Your domain name and e-mail address This information is recognised by our servers and the pages that you visit are recorded. We shall not under any circumstances, divulge your e-mail address to any person who is not an employee or contractor of ours and who does not need to know, either generally or specifically. This information is used: to correspond with you or deal with you as you expect; in a collective way not referable to any particular individual, for the purpose of quality control and improvement of our website; to send you news about the services to which you have signed up; to tell you about other of our services or services of sister websites. Information you post on our website Information you send to us by posting to the comments section, is stored on our servers. We do not specifically use that information except to allow it to be read, but you will see in our terms and conditions that we reserve a right to use it in any way we decide. Website usage information We may use software embedded in our website (such as JavaScript) to collect information about pages you view and how you have reached them, what you do when you visit a page, the length of time you remain on the page, and how we perform in providing content to you. We do not presently associate such information with an identifiable person. Financial information relating to your credit cards This information is never taken by us either through our website or otherwise. At the point of payment, you are transferred to a secure page on the website of Stripe or PayPal or another reputable payment service provider. That page may be dressed in our “livery”, but it is not controlled by us. Our staff and contractors never have access to it. Note on padlock symbols and other trust marks Many companies offer certification and an icon or other small graphic to prove to website visitors that the website is safe. Some certify to a high level of safety. Others are more concerned to take our money than to provide a useful service. We do not handle information about your credit card so do not subscribe to any such service. Credit reference To assist in combating fraud, we share information with credit reference agencies, so far as it relates to clients or customers who instruct their credit card issuer to cancel payment to us without having first provided an acceptable reason to us and given us the opportunity to refund their money. Third party advertising Third parties may advertise on our website. In doing so, those parties, their agents or other companies working for them may use technology that automatically collects your IP address when they send an advertisement that appears on our website to your browser. They may also use other technology such as cookies or JavaScript to personalise the content of, and to measure the performance of their adverts. We do not have control over these technologies or the data that these parties obtain. Accordingly, this privacy notice does not cover the information practices of these third parties. Third party content Our website is a publishing medium in that anyone may register and then publish information about themselves or some other person. We do not moderate or control what is posted. If you complain about any of the content on our website, we shall investigate your complaint. If we feel, it may be justified, we shall remove it while we investigate. Free speech is a fundamental right, so we have to make a judgment as to whose right will be obstructed: yours, or that of the person who posted the content which offends you. If we think, your complaint is vexatious or without any basis, we shall not correspond with you about it. Information we obtain from third parties Although we do not disclose your personal information to any third party (except as set out in this notice), we do receive data which is indirectly made up from your personal information, from software services such as Google Analytics and others. No such information is identifiable to you. Content you provide to us with a view to be used by third party If you provide information to us with a view to it being read, copied, downloaded, or used by other people, we accept no responsibility for what that third party may do with it. It is up to you to satisfy yourself about the privacy level of every person who might see your information. If it is available to the World, neither we nor you have any control whatsoever as to how it is used. Cookies Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer's hard drive through your web browser when you visit any website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. Like all other users of cookies, we may request the return of information from your computer when your browser requests a web page from our server. Cookies enable our web server to identify you to us, and to track your actions and the pages you visit while you use our website. The cookies we use may last for a single visit to our website (they are deleted from your computer when you close your browser), or may remain on your computer until you delete them or until a defined period of time has passed. Although your browser software enables you to disable cookies, we recommend that you allow the use of cookies in order to take advantage of the features of our website that rely on their use. If you prevent their use, you will not be able to use all the functionality of our website. Here are the ways we use cookies: to record whether you have accepted the use of cookies on our website. This is solely to comply with the law. If you have chosen not to accept cookies, we will not use cookies for your visit, but unfortunately, our website will also not work well for you. to allow essential parts of our website to operate for you. to operate our content management system. to operate the online notification form - the form that you use to contact us for any reason. This cookie is set on your arrival at our website and deleted when you close your browser. to enhance security on our contact form. It is set for use only through the contact form. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser. to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to improve your experience of our website and enable us to increase sales. This cookie collects information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from, and the pages they visited. to record that a user has viewed a webcast. It collects information in an anonymous form. This cookie expires when you close your browser. to record your activity during a webcast. An example is as to whether you have asked a question or provided an opinion by ticking a box. This information is retained so that we can serve your information to you when you return to the website. This cookie will record an anonymous ID for each user, but it will not use the information for any other purpose. This cookie will last for [three] months, when it will be deleted automatically. to store your personal information so that you do not have to provide it afresh when you visit the website next time. This cookie will last for [90] days. to enable you to watch videos we have placed on YouTube. YouTube will not store personally identifiable cookie information when you use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode. Sending a message to our support system When you send a message, we collect the data you have given to us in that message in order to obtain confirmation that you are entitled to receive the information and to provide to you the information you need. We record your request and our reply in order to increase the efficiency of our business / organisation. Complaining When we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given to us. We use that information to resolve your complaint. If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter for our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and if we do, what that information is. We may also compile statistics showing information obtained from this source to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person. Re-marketing We may use re-marketing from time to time. This involves Google or some other supplier placing a tag or marker on our website in order to be able to serve to you an advert for our products / services when you visit some other website. Use of the website by children We do not market to children, nor do we sell products or services for purchase by children. We do sell products and services for end use by children, but for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use our website only with consent from a parent or guardian. Disclosure to Government and their agencies We are subject to the law like everyone else. We may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order. Compliance with the law This privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply with the law of every jurisdiction in which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your country, we would like to hear from you, but ultimately it is your choice as to whether you wish to use our website. Review or update personally identifiable information At any time you may review or update the personally identifiable information that we hold about you, by contacting us at the address below. To better safeguard your information, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your information. Removal of your information If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information from our website, you may contact us at happenfilms.com/contact . To better safeguard your information, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your information. Data may be “processed” outside New Zealand Our website is hosted in [country]. We also use outsourced services in countries outside New Zealand from time to time in other aspects of our business. [Specifically, our technical centre is based in [town, place]. Accordingly data obtained within the New Zealand may be “processed” outside New Zealand and data obtained in any other country may be processed within or outside that country. If you have any question regarding the privacy policy, please get in touch by visiting the Contact page on this website . Explanatory notes Notes referable to specific numbered paragraphs. 1 Business and Personal information This is information collected by most websites. What you do with it is obvious but including it here completes the picture. 2 Market place information To use if you take orders on your website for a third party. 3 Your domain name and e-mail address This is information collected by most websites. Basic and obvious. 4 Information you post on our website This is an area often omitted from suggested text, but it may be important. The fact that someone posts insensitive or forbidden or stupid information does not give you a licence to use it without care. However, well drawn terms and conditions will make clear that contractually you have a licence to use any such information as you decide. 5 Website usage information This information is unlikely to be personally identifiable. 6 Financial information relating to your credit cards In this and the following paragraphs we have given you several alternatives. Select the one that most accurately reflects the way you do business. 7 to 8 Alternative paragraphs. You can choose that suits you best. 9 Financial information about your direct debits Provides for direct debit arrangements and explains in plain English how they work. 10 Credit reference We sugge st that you leave this paragraph in place even if you have no immediate intention of liaising with debt collectors. It may be a useful reminder to users of your website. 11 Third party advertising This is a simple statement of the obvious. In practice, the demons that appear in our systems are usually cookies of some sort, placed by these third parties, often with the connivance of the webmaster of a site based far away. 15 Cookies You must identify what cookies you use and why so as to give a user of your website notice of what you are planting on his hard disk. It is particularly important to mention any cookie that may prove objectionable to someone. The purpose of this document is to tell those who might use your web site what will happen if they do. There are thousands of possible use of cookies. We have mentioned a few of the most obvious. Add your own. (Please tell us of any we have missed which are also obvious!) 16 to 28 . We have no comment on these paragraphs. Select which apply to you. 21 Remarketing “Remarketing” is the process whereby a visitor to your site is tagged and that tag picked up by Google or some other re-marketing service provider when your visitor goes to some other site that you have decided may be relevant to yours. If you are not immediately familiar with re-marketing, you should delete the provision. If you do use re-marketing, you should choose your words carefully in how you describe what may be regarded as an intrusive practice. More information is at: https://www.google.com/ads/innovations/remarketing.html 29 Data may be “processed” outside New Zealand It is important that this information is disclosed to comply with the law. End of notes. 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Frequently Asked Questions – FAQs – about how Happen Films is funded, how to buy our films and how to share and screen our films. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQs) Click on an item in the dropdown menu below to learn more about everything from purchasing a film, watching a film and sharing a film to trouble shooting and even what gear we currently use! How do I watch your films? Most of our films are free to view on YouTube and can also be watched from right here on our website. Check out Watch Films in the main menu. You can also purchase our films. Why? So that you have them permanently available on your device to view ad-free, offline! And so that you can hold a public screening event. For that you'll need a license. Visit the store for more information. I’ve purchased a film but don’t have a download link / can’t download it. What can I do? If you bought a mid-length or feature film from our Store you will have received a purchase receipt at the email address you provided (check your Spam folder if this didn’t reach you immediately). That email contains your download link. The link does not expire, so please keep the email, so that you can access it again if needed. To download the film, simply click on the link. You’ll be prompted to choose where to save it. If you bought a short film, you'll receive an automatic reply by email and we'll receive an alert about your purchase. As soon as that email is seen you'll be sent a download link in a second email. (Please allow two working days.) The download time will depend on the file size (i.e., whether you’ve bought a short film or a feature film) and your internet connection. Once downloaded, store the file on a hard drive, USB stick, or in a folder on your computer from which you can play it. If the download is failing, the most likely problem is that your internet connection is not reliable enough for this purpose. You could try asking a friend to download it and then transfer the file to a hard drive or USB stick. If that’s not an option, please get in touch using the form on the Contact page . To watch a film on your iPad or iPhone, you’ll need to download it to your computer and then sync it to your device. I’m screening in a cinema and they’ve requested a DCP file. In New Zealand and Australia we have a limited number of DCP files available for an additional $20 plus postage. Most cinemas require the film 1–2 weeks ahead of the screening date and we’ll need at least 2 weeks’ notice to get it to you. We don't have DCP files for films under 30 minutes in length. Can I use your short films on my website/in my educational course? If you mean you’d like to embed one of our YouTube videos on your website, we’d of course be very happy for you to do so! Please do not download and re-upload our films, with or without changes, to your own channel or website. We earn an important part of our income from YouTube ad revenue and you would be taking our creative work for your own profit. Thanks for not doing this! If you'd like to upload one of our films for course attendees to access, then we will charge a small fee for usage. In this case, please get in touch using the form on the Contact page including info about the course, the number of people expected to be accessing it, and what you charge. If you have other plans for using our films in an educational or entry-cost setting, send us a message from the Contact page with full details. What are the films rated? Living the Change is officially rated PG and The New Peasants is rated M. The rest of our films are exempt from rating due to being documentaries containing no offensive language. Do the films have subtitles? Our budget hasn’t extended to professional subtitling, but we have a wonderful team of volunteer translators from around the world who have contributed translations to some of our films. Check the film page to find subtitles available for download or go to YouTube to watch the film, where there may be more available. If you’re interested in adding subtitles, send us a message from the Contact page and we can send you the English subtitles with time code stamps. Are you interested in corporate branding collaborations? No, but thanks for asking! While our YouTube videos are monetised (meaning an ad plays at the beginning of each film – a critical income source for us), we choose not to collaborate with corporate brands or to sell products via our films. We don’t plan on changing our minds about this – even if your product is super-duper eco awesomeness – so we wish you well with your own business but request that you don’t email us offering a collaboration. Thanks again! How is Happen Films funded? We have a whole page about this! Click this link to head to the How is Happen Films Funded? webpage . What gear do you use? Our gear is the part of our lives that causes us the most conflict! For that reason, we prioritise buying secondhand wherever possible (obviously not batteries, nor hard drives). Our current gear is as follows: Main video camera: Canon C70 Lenses: Canon 16-35mm f/4, Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8; Sigma 50mm f/1.4; Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 External monitor: SmallHD Focus Audio: Sennheiser G4 wireless system, Sanken COS-11D lav mics, Sound Devices Mix-pre 3 ii audio recorder Tripod: Manfrotto 290 xtra with 701 HDV fluid head Stabiliser: DJI RS 3 Pro Editing computer: 2023 Macbook Pro Editing software: Final Cut Pro X Editing harddrive: Synology NAS What community guidelines do you operate under on social media? In order to create a positive and engaging environment within the Happen Films social media community, we ask that everyone treats each other with respect. While at times people within this community might disagree with ideas expressed by others, all opinions and viewpoints are welcome. However, insults, threats or harassment of other people or organisations, offensive statements and illegal content will not be tolerated. Happen Films reserves its right to delete – to the extent that each respective social media platform allows – any post or comment that is defamatory, indecent, hateful, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, sexist, disgraceful, vulgar, or inappropriate; and unintelligible or irrelevant posts. We love to hear from you and encourage comments, critiques, questions, and suggestions. This is an ethos in direct correlation to People Care, a Permaculture Ethic we frame our lives by.