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A Magical 28-year Journey to Food Resilience Growing Forested Foods Growing Wild Together Other films you might like Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Regenerating Nature 16 mins Melliodora Tour A tour of David Holmgren and Su Dennett's 1-hectare permaculture paradise – explore the home and garden of the co-founder of permaculture. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living 16 mins An Invitation for Wildness The Guytons have made a name for themselves as forest gardeners. In this first of two films we tour the forest when it is 23 years old. Regenerating Nature, Simple Living 16 mins Fools & Dreamers Does regenerating a native forest mean hundreds of staff or volunteers planting individual tress? What about leaving it to nature? Community, Simple Living, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living, Permaculture, Economy, Farming, Food & Gardening, Homes & Building, Zero Waste 16 mins Living the Change Living the Change is a feature-length documentary that explores solutions to the global crises we face today. Share your thoughts about the film Growing Wild Together Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @jackjames9005 “ @karenmoran68 “ @mattchew5965 “ @Titania Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Links to resources about the Guyton’s work, forested foods and food forest design: Watch our original 2016 film about the Guyton’s permaculture food forest, An Invitation for Wildness Information about the Longwood Loop food resilience ‘trade route’ the Guyton’s use to supply their forested foods direct to the local community Learn about the Guyton’s local South Coast Environment Society Subtitles Most of our subtitles are generated by YouTube (English) or created by volunteers. We try to make time to correct YouTube's English but for other languages we can't control the quality, sorry! Download your preferred language and upload it via your media player. Growing Wild Together - English Growing Wild Together - Spanish If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! Watch our original film from 2016, An Invitation for Wildness . In Growing Wild Together we return to the nearly 30-year-old food forest growing on 2 acres of urban land in southernmost Aotearoa New Zealand. The forest, previously an abandoned section filled with rubbish and burnt house remains, was the subject of our 2016 film An Invitation for Wildness . Now we’ve returned to find out what has changed in the forest and for the people who live there. Robyn and Robert’s forest garden is home to countless forms of life, from trees and plants to birds, fish, and insects, and of course the humans who live amongst it all, in harmony. With time it grows wilder and wilder – “Like me,” says Robert. Since we first visited, the couple have also developed new projects, one of them reviving an old trade route, to help create food resilience for the nearby rural communities. In the film, Robert says he’s convinced that the food forest model will be one of the most important models for creating a resilient future on Earth. He maintains we must learn to be loved by the forest. Here is a film to inspire love for our forests and everything they generously gift us! Permaculture, Food & Gardening, Urban Living, Regenerating Nature About Growing Wild Together 16 mins “ This was truly inspirational. We need to localize agriculture and live with the land. His speech about optimism was just what I needed. Thanks so much, Happen Films! @jackjames9005 YouTube ” “ It was wonderful to revisit these beautiful people and their thriving, abundant food forest. @karenmoran68 Instagram ” “ Thank you for following up. The original is my go-to video when I need a connection to all things beautiful. Thank you for sharing. @mattchew5965 YouTube ” “ Wonderful film. We need more like it. @Titania Website ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone

Rob Greenfield: Being the (radical) change you wish to see in the world HAPPEN FILMS PODCAST #2 << Previous Podcast Next Podcast >> << Previous Podcast Next Podcast >> Audio only Rob Greenfield: Being the (radical) change you wish to see in the world 00:00 / 58:15 Find out more about Rob Greenfield Website YouTube Instagram Facebook Description In episode 2 of the Happen Films Podcast we’re joined by a Dude Making a Difference, Rob Greenfield. You might already be one of Rob’s hundreds of thousands of followers; if not, we’re delighted to introduce you to him because he’s one of our favourite people out there working to make the world a better place. We’ve been fans of Rob Greenfield’s work for years, and had the opportunity to catch up with him while he was under lockdown in France during Covid-19. With this interruption to daily life giving many the opportunity to reflect on the type of life they’d like to lead, it was interesting to hear about Rob’s personal journey. “It’s been about a decade now since I really shifted my life. I was living a very materialistic life. I wanted to be a millionaire by the time I was thirty. Then I started to listen to other perspectives and I just woke up to the fact that my life was not what I thought it was at all. I was buying into all these lies that corporations had sold me on what I needed to do in order to be a happy, healthy, successful human being and I pretty quickly decided that I was going to radically transform my life.” Rob has gained notoriety around the world for some of his extreme campaigns – wearing all his own rubbish as he accumulated it over the course of a month (there was a lot to carry!); foraging or growing 100% (100%!) of his food for a year. Rather than fulfil his desire to be a millionaire, his financial vows see him donating 100% of his media income to grassroots charities and his financial net worth kept to the very bare minimum. Rob is a great inspiration. Not because we should all choose to live this way – he acknowledges it’s not for everyone – but because he lives his truth in a way that fulfils him, in a way that he can be proud of, and in the way he truly wants to. That seems to us to be something to aspire to, for each of us in our individual ways. Enjoy the podcast! Community, Simple Living, Zero Waste 58 mins Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone

Full-length interview with Charles Eisenstein from the film Living the Change CHARLES EISENSTEIN EXTENDED INTERVIEW << Previous Interview Next Interview >> Find out more about Charles Eisenstein https://charleseisenstein.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4zGuuCE5Yk https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/mar/09/we-need-regenerative-farming-not-geoengineering Description Charles is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of human culture and identity. He is the author of several books, most recently Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible . His background includes a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Yale, a decade in Taiwan as a translator, and stints as a college instructor, a yoga teacher, and a construction worker. He currently writes and speaks full-time. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife and four children. “Going around New Zealand making a film … like that’s not gonna get you anywhere, that’s irrational, impractical, unrealistic…” Lots of people have asked about our interview with Charles Eisenstein for Living the Change – only a few minutes of the awesome 1.5-hour interview made it into the film so we thought we’d share it all with you. Have a listen to get the full picture of that quote. Below is a list of questions we asked Charles and the timecode they are answered in the video: 1:06 – What are the ‘old story’ and ‘new story’ that you describe in your writing? 14:37 – Where does the sense that a better world is possible come from? 19:16 – What guides us in the space between stories to creating the new story? 21:11 – How did the world get to where it is now? 28:20 – Do you think advancements in technology can solve the problems we’re facing? 33:50 – Do you see the current money system as a symptom of separation? 37:50 – What could an alternative system look like? Would the current system need to collapse to make way for the new? 43:24 – Can individual action create big change? 48:14 – What is the wound of separation and how do we see it expressed in society? 54:32 – What do you advise people to do in times of not knowing what to do? 1:01:33 – Can doing nothing take you to a place of knowing what to do? 1:06:39 – When you imagine the new story, what does it look like? Community 70 mins Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone

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MID-LENGTH FILMS (21–40 mins) Our mid-length films – from 20–40 minutes long – allow us to bring more depth to our storytelling. If we have the budget to go deeper, we love this format for exploring the why and how behind the ideas, the ways of being and the ways of living of the people we focus our cameras on. Explore films about people undertaking projects to bring their community together through gardening and composting, people focused on land regeneration and food foresting, and stay tuned for more to come across a range of topics! Browse all films Filter options: Use the buttons below to filter the list of films. You can select more than one option, and click again to deselect. Community Farming Food & Gardening Homes & Building Permaculture Regenerating Nature Simple Living Urban Living Zero Waste Permaculture, Simple Living, Homes & Building, Community Strawbale Dream Home 25 mins Follow Adam and Sian as they build their traditional timber frame home combining timber joinery, strawbale and cob. Zero Waste, Community, Urban Living, Food & Gardening Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story 39 mins Follow the remarkable journey of a passionate man making composting at a community-wide scale not just a dream but the real thing. Food & Gardening, Community, Permaculture, Urban Living Together We Grow: The Story of Common Unity 39 mins Learn the variety of ways this community comes together to help those in need to have access to great food and meaningful connections Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature The Food Forest Farmers 24 mins What role do humans play in Earth's ecosystems and how can we be good stewards of the land? This film showcases syntropic farming as a way. Regenerating Nature, Simple Living Fools & Dreamers 30 mins Does regenerating a native forest mean hundreds of staff or volunteers planting individual tress? What about leaving it to nature?

FILMS ABOUT ZERO WASTE Transitioning to a lifestyle in which our consumption habits don't impact negatively on the planet, our society and our health is one of the most straightforward ways we can each make immediate changes for the good of all. 'Zero Waste' is a term that can make the mission sound alarming and impossible, but it sets a beautiful intention. What does transitioning to zero waste look like? Why is it important? Across these films you'll hear stories from peole who've made that journey their life goal, as well as from people for whom composting food scraps, composting human waste, being frugal in the home, and homesteading are all conscious or unconscious steps on that path. We hope you'll learn heaps and be deeply inspired! Browse all films Filter options: Use the buttons below to filter the list of films. You can select more than one option, and click again to deselect. Feature (+40 mins) Mid-length (21-40 mins) Short (0-20 mins) Community, Farming, Food & Gardening, Homes & Building, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste The New Peasants 60 mins A new feature film releasing in June 2025 about the philosophy and lifestyle choices of an Australian family living profoundly simply. Community, Food & Gardening, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Economy, Urban Living Being the Change at 85 13 mins Helen Dew is an 85-year-old activist with a passion for gardening, community resilience, biochar, seed saving and living simply. Zero Waste, Urban Living, Simple Living The Rubbish Trip 17 mins What does it mean to be on the zero waste journey? And why is it important for us each to take personal responsibility for our waste? Zero Waste, Community, Urban Living, Food & Gardening Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story 39 mins Follow the remarkable journey of a passionate man making composting at a community-wide scale not just a dream but the real thing. Community, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living A Life with Less Waste 8 mins What secrets does this family hold to reducing individual impact on the planet by reducing family waste streams? Permaculture, Simple Living, Urban Living, Zero Waste, Food & Gardening, Community, Economy Degrowth in the Suburbs 15 mins What does sustainable living in the city look like? This film explores the different methods one family employs to reduce their impact. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living Creatures of Place 12 mins This family live an incredibly simple life, yet they have an abundance in so many things – food, community, time to create a beautiful life. Community, Simple Living, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living, Permaculture, Economy, Farming, Food & Gardening, Homes & Building, Zero Waste Living the Change 86 mins Living the Change is a feature-length documentary that explores solutions to the global crises we face today. Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste Closing the Loop 7 mins Learn about how this couple manages their composting toilet, why it's so important, and how easy it is! Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste A Simpler Way 78 mins What would it look like to live within Earth's available resources? This group came together to explore a one-world-footprint lifestyle. Community, Simple Living, Permaculture, Homes & Building, Zero Waste $420 Tiny House 4 mins This film showcases the build of a very tiny house, built using reclaimed materials by a couple with no previous building experience.

FILMS ABOUT URBAN LIVING Most of the world's population is urban and most of the world's problems are created in urban and industrial environments. For a long time it felt like the solutions to the predicaments of our era required a return to the rural landscape. But not only is that impossible for us all to do, it's not necessary. So many people are exploring beautiful ways to create human resilience in urban environments, from what David Holmgren describes as 'retrofitting the suburbs' to community hubs, community gardens, reviving the commons and introducing local currencies. Explore some of the options for creating a beautiful path forward on your own urban footpaths! Browse all films Filter options: Use the buttons below to filter the list of films. You can select more than one option, and click again to deselect. Feature (+40 mins) Mid-length (21-40 mins) Short (0-20 mins) Simple Living, Permaculture, Community, Urban Living A Day in the Life of Woody 12 mins A Day in the Life of Woody showcases the unschooled life of 11-year-old Blackwood, a boy who has been schooled from home all his life. Community, Food & Gardening, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Economy, Urban Living Being the Change at 85 13 mins Helen Dew is an 85-year-old activist with a passion for gardening, community resilience, biochar, seed saving and living simply. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living The City Food Commons 12 mins The commons has been an almost-forgotten concept, and yet once provided so much community resilience. This film showcases a new approach. Zero Waste, Urban Living, Simple Living The Rubbish Trip 17 mins What does it mean to be on the zero waste journey? And why is it important for us each to take personal responsibility for our waste? Zero Waste, Community, Urban Living, Food & Gardening Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story 39 mins Follow the remarkable journey of a passionate man making composting at a community-wide scale not just a dream but the real thing. Permaculture, Food & Gardening, Urban Living, Regenerating Nature Growing Wild Together 16 mins We revisit the food forest we filmed five years ago to discover what's changed and how much more wild it's all become – plants and people! Food & Gardening, Community, Permaculture, Urban Living Together We Grow: The Story of Common Unity 39 mins Learn the variety of ways this community comes together to help those in need to have access to great food and meaningful connections Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living An Invitation for Wildness 20 mins The Guytons have made a name for themselves as forest gardeners. In this first of two films we tour the forest when it is 23 years old. Community, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living A Life with Less Waste 8 mins What secrets does this family hold to reducing individual impact on the planet by reducing family waste streams? Permaculture, Community, Food & Gardening, Simple Living, Urban Living The Plummery 8 mins Find out how to grow an abundance of fruit and vegetables even when you have a tiny backyard garden in the middle of a busy city. Permaculture, Simple Living, Urban Living, Zero Waste, Food & Gardening, Community, Economy Degrowth in the Suburbs 15 mins What does sustainable living in the city look like? This film explores the different methods one family employs to reduce their impact. Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Urban Living Abdallah House 14 mins A tour of a very small urban section that has been developed using permaculture principles to make best use of the space. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living Creatures of Place 12 mins This family live an incredibly simple life, yet they have an abundance in so many things – food, community, time to create a beautiful life. Community, Simple Living, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living, Permaculture, Economy, Farming, Food & Gardening, Homes & Building, Zero Waste Living the Change 86 mins Living the Change is a feature-length documentary that explores solutions to the global crises we face today. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Urban Living Urban Abundance 5 mins This couple have turned their urban back yard into beautiful neat rows of market garden and help others to garden in their own back yards. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Urban Living The Food Is Free Laneway 4 mins A film showcasing Lou and the Food is Free Laneway she initiated alongside her house, following the principles of #foodisfree.

A meditation on crafting a beautiful human Flute Making and Human Making Other films you might like Simple Living, Permaculture, Community, Urban Living 17 mins A Day in the Life of Woody A Day in the Life of Woody showcases the unschooled life of 11-year-old Blackwood, a boy who has been schooled from home all his life. Community, Food & Gardening, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Economy, Urban Living 17 mins Being the Change at 85 Helen Dew is an 85-year-old activist with a passion for gardening, community resilience, biochar, seed saving and living simply. Share your thoughts about Flute Making and Human Making Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @catalinadelcidbarillas4183 “ @MPBussey “ @jmindich “ @Elsa568being Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . About this series This film forms part of the collaborative series “Something Beautiful for the World”, a project in which three filmmakers from around the globe explore how small acts of love and kindness have the potential to ripple out and change the world, touching hearts and minds in ways that we could never begin to imagine. The series is made up of 12 short films, from across five continents, four from each filmmaker, and releasing one per month for the whole of 2024. Watch all the films here . Flute Making and Human Making is a meditation on the similarities to be found between two unlikely things – a traditional Japanese bamboo flute and a human being. This short film is a unique exploration into the making of a shakuhachi flute, from bamboo harvest to beautiful music, and the crossovers with the making of a beautiful human. Had the thought ever occurred to you? Set your imagination to play! Begin with a posture of openness, of attentiveness. Breathe down through the fluteness of your spine to sense the tensions, where to soften, where to loosen. Consider the flute’s five holes and your own five senses. What crafting can take place, what adjustments, so that the wholeness of your being becomes the greatest, most wonderful offering you can gift to the world? Buddhist teacher Tarchin Hearn and blind flutemaker Kelvin Falconer take us on a journey into new territory, asking us to meditate deeply on our own crafting, our own fluteness, to take our turn in serious music-making for the healing of the world. The film is based on Tarchin Hearn’s book Something Beautiful for the World: A shakuhachi sadhana . If you’re inspired by the film to read the book, or to learn more about Tarchin’s teachings, visit his website at https://greendharmatreasury.org/ Subtitles Most of our subtitles are generated by YouTube (English) or created by volunteers. We try to make time to correct YouTube's English but for other languages we can't control the quality, sorry! Download your preferred language and upload it via your media player. Flute Making and Human Making - English Flute Making and Human Making - Spanish Flute Making and Human Making - German If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! Mindfulness About Flute Making and Human Making 17 mins “ Thank you for the poetry and metaphor of this film. 💚💙💛.... Pure light for the soul! @catalinadelcidbarillas4183 YouTube ” “ Fabulous meditation on craft, and sound, and spirit! Thank you! @MPBussey YouTube ” “ Stunningly beautiful and insightful; both the content and the filmmaking. Thank you! @jmindich YouTube ” “ This video touched my soul. Thanks so much. @Elsa568being YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone

Artist as Family: Community Resilience in a Time of Pandemic HAPPEN FILMS PODCAST #1 << Previous Podcast Next Podcast >> << Previous Podcast Next Podcast >> Audio only Artist as Family: Community Resilience in a Time of Pandemic 00:00 / 1:12:43 Find out more about Artist as Family https://artistasfamily.is/ Description In our very first podcast episode Meg and Patrick of Artist as Family join us for a conversation on community resilience and the opportunities for change that the pandemic presents. You might remember Meg and Patrick from our film Creatures of Place that we made back in 2018. Today they’re joining us from their home, Tree Elbow, on Djaara people’s land in Victoria, Australia. We love the way these guys choose to live and interact with their community – they’re inspiring role models for us and they were the obvious choice for first guests on our new podcast. One of the critical things we talked about was the difference between self-sufficiency and community sufficiency. Meg: “How do we practice community sufficiency, what does that look like when it’s just us here, how do we look after each other in a non digital way in a very, very real practical sense? We’re so privileged here to live like this. How do we share that? In a time where everybody is physically distanced, what does generosity look like?” Patrick: “Resilience is community sufficiency it’s not self sufficiency, so while we have twelve years of preparing for collapse on this particular lot in Central Victoria and within the community gardens and the community forests that we’re involved in and there’s food everywhere … feral foods and the huge amount of learning over the last twelve years we’ve put into edible flora and fauna and fungi – it’s so good to have that, that’s our main bank apart from our seed bank, our cellar and our garden and our community, but to be shut off so radically from community at the moment is definitely a… I feel a sense of vulnerability with that.” It was really great to talk about that vulnerability with two people who are, despite feeling the vulnerability, deeply resilient in so many ways. We can’t all be prepared for every situation the future might bring, but we can choose to live in a way that is positive and loving and supportive of our selves and all the beings around us. Community, Simple Living, Urban Living, Gardening 72 mins Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone

The full interview with Helena Norberg-Hodge from our film A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity HELENA NORBERG-HODGE EXTENDED INTERVIEW << Previous Interview Next Interview >> Find out more about Helena Norberg-Hodge https://www.helenanorberghodge.com/ https://www.localfutures.org/about-local-futures/who-we-are/helena-norberg-hodge/ https://www.positive.news/environment/food/close-to-home-why-local-food-is-the-future/ Description Helena Norberg-Hodge is a pioneer of the local economies movement and founder and director of Local Futures. This is the full interview we shot with her for our film A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity . We can only ever fit in a few minutes’ worth of the amazing interviews we get to shoot, so here’s the whole thing for people who want to get into the nitty-gritty! Watch the feature-length documentary that drew on this interview: A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity . Community, Simple Living, Urban Living 74 mins Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone

Imagining Decolonisation and Why it's Good for Everyone with Tina Ngata HAPPEN FILMS PODCAST #7 << Previous Podcast Next Podcast >> << Previous Podcast Next Podcast >> Audio only Imagining Decolonisation and Why it's Good for Everyone with Tina Ngata 00:00 / 1:13:28 Learn more about Tina Ngata Website Support on Patreon Watch Tina’s talk during the Claim the Future webinar (July 2020) Buy Tina’s book, Kia Mau: Resisting Colonial Fictions (digital download – please koha/gift if you can) Transcript Antoinette: Hi everyone, I’m Antoinette. Welcome back to the Happen Films podcast. Today I’m joined by Tina Ngata, one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s waste resistance heroes. Her blog of many years, The Non-plastic Maori, described, among connected topics, her personal transition to living plastic-free. More broadly her work involves advocacy for environmental, indigenous and human rights. She’s spoken for Maori and indigenous rights at the United Nations and at conferences around the world and has published a collection of essays entitled Kia Mau: Resisting Colonial Fictions . I’ll include links to her work in the show notes and in the YouTube description. Show More Description In Episode 7 of the Happen Films Podcast, Antoinette is joined by Tina Ngata (Ngati Porou), an advocate for environmental, indigenous and human rights. Tina is based in Tairāwhiti, East Coast, Aotearoa New Zealand, where she’s a busy community leader working for the rights and wellbeing of her whanau/family and community. For many years her blog, the Non-Plastic Maori, documented her journey reducing her personal dependence on plastic, a journey that led to a deepening understanding of the wider issues of plastics consumption and waste and becoming a prominent activist in that space and beyond. She has spoken for Maori and indigenous rights at the United Nations and in conferences around the world, has published a book of her collected work opposing the continued celebration of colonial history, Kia Mau: Resisting Colonial Fictions , and is continually writing, speaking and protesting for justice for humans and Papatuānuku/Mother Earth. The intention was for this episode to be Happen Films’ contribution to Plastic-free July – Tina being one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s waste resistance heroes – and the idea was to talk about waste within the context of environmental, indigenous and human rights. And we do… but the focus of the conversation turned out to be colonisation – its history; its day-to-day presence – and what decolonisation might look like. That’s an appropriate conversation to be having at any time and feels particularly resonant right now, within the extraordinary context of this year, 2020, and everything it’s bringing forth to challenge our thinking, our history, our practices and our plans for the future. As Tina says: “Anti-colonialism is not just for indigenous people. Anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism and anti-racism is for everyone – we’ll all get well-being out of deconstructing the ways in which we believe that we have entitlement to each other’s spaces and places and bodies.” We hope you enjoy listening to Tina’s wise and profound words and come away as inspired as we have! Community, Zero Waste 73 mins Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone

FILMS ABOUT REGENERATIVE NATURE Allowing nature space to regenerate herself wherever humans have impacted on her, and taking part in regenerating nature in whatever ways we can, are critical steps. This is our transition away from consuming nature as a resource and instead seeing ourselves as part of nature, scarred when she is scarred, depleted when she is depeleted, sickened when she is sickened. In these films we meet people who are working to regenerate land, sea or species in whichever way they've felt called to do. Browse all films Filter options: Use the buttons below to filter the list of films. You can select more than one option, and click again to deselect. Feature (+40 mins) Mid-length (21-40 mins) Short (0-20 mins) Regenerating Nature, Food & Gardening, Community Rongoā Māori 11 mins Rongoā is the healing practice and an essential element of the worldview of Māori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living The City Food Commons 12 mins The commons has been an almost-forgotten concept, and yet once provided so much community resilience. This film showcases a new approach. Regenerating Nature, Food & Gardening Fishing for the Future 17 mins A small-scale, thoughtful and ethical approach to fishing our oceans is possible – this family is leading the way. Permaculture, Food & Gardening, Urban Living, Regenerating Nature Growing Wild Together 16 mins We revisit the food forest we filmed five years ago to discover what's changed and how much more wild it's all become – plants and people! Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature The Food Forest Farmers 24 mins What role do humans play in Earth's ecosystems and how can we be good stewards of the land? This film showcases syntropic farming as a way. Community, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Farming From Weedy Forests to Grassy Woodlands 12 mins A film exploring how the simple practice of grazing goats on wild lands can lead to a healthier forest and a more connected community. Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Farming Limestone Permaculture Tour #3 17 mins Our second film with Brett and Nici of Limestone Permaculture, and the third film in our Permaculture Tours series. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Regenerating Nature Melliodora Tour 11 mins A tour of David Holmgren and Su Dennett's 1-hectare permaculture paradise – explore the home and garden of the co-founder of permaculture. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living An Invitation for Wildness 20 mins The Guytons have made a name for themselves as forest gardeners. In this first of two films we tour the forest when it is 23 years old. Regenerating Nature, Simple Living Fools & Dreamers 30 mins Does regenerating a native forest mean hundreds of staff or volunteers planting individual tress? What about leaving it to nature? Community, Simple Living, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living, Permaculture, Economy, Farming, Food & Gardening, Homes & Building, Zero Waste Living the Change 86 mins Living the Change is a feature-length documentary that explores solutions to the global crises we face today. Farming, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature Restoring Paradise 8 mins A short film showcases Mangarara Farm, where holistic grazing practices are regenerating the land to the biodiverse fields that once were. Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Economy From Finance to Farmer 15 mins Explore the beautiful food forest Andrew Martin has created from a paddock of grass, and learn all the reasons why he's doing so. Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature Limestone Permaculture Tour #1 13 mins The first of two Happen Films tours of well known Limestone Permaculture Farm, where an abundance of food and medicine is grown on 1 acre.

Beautiful House Truck Made from 85% Reclaimed Materials The Handmade Housetruck Other films you might like Permaculture, Simple Living, Homes & Building, Community 12 mins Strawbale Dream Home Follow Adam and Sian as they build their traditional timber frame home combining timber joinery, strawbale and cob. Simple Living, Homes & Building 12 mins Off-Grid Tiny House on Wheels This 17-minute tiny house tour takes us through all the highs and lows of building a tiny house on wheels. Community, Simple Living, Permaculture, Homes & Building, Zero Waste 12 mins $420 Tiny House This film showcases the build of a very tiny house, built using reclaimed materials by a couple with no previous building experience. Community, Permaculture, Simple Living, Homes & Building 12 mins Building a Beautiful, Rustic Tiny House Meet Taj as she gives a tour and describes living simply in this 10 sq metre tiny house built using reclaimed materials. Share your thoughts about the Handmade House Truck Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @iahelcathartesaura3887 “ @traceyodonnell1969 “ @nathalou8778 “ @JacksonSharpening Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Learn more about Adam and Sian's building passion: Watch our second film with Adam and Sian, released in 2023, Strawbale Dream Home. Learn more about Adam and Sian: Find out more about Evergreen Homes, Adam Hickman’s building company Follow Evergreen Homes on Instagram Follow Evergreen Homes on Facebook In this film, we take a tour of Adam and Sian’s beautiful off-grid tiny house truck, which was built using mostly reclaimed and natural materials, on the back of a 1969 Bedford. The house truck is full of light and space, with an open-plan kitchen, living and bedroom area and a fancy shower set-up on the back porch. The couple describe the building process and the events that decided them on leaving a conventional home and city life to take up this much simpler way of living that they find more satisfying. Simple Living, Homes & Building About The Handmade Housetruck 12 mins “ SPECTACULAR! Amazingly great home & fantastic, informative, enjoyable video. @iahelcathartesaura3887 YouTube ” “ Inspirational, thank you for sharing this beautiful gift with the world. @traceyodonnell1969 YouTube ” “ Wow, such gentle people and living! I feel very inspired by this. Thank you. @nathalou8778 YouTube ” “ What a nicely shot film! Lovely lighting. Well edited and enticing. Love the house truck. @JacksonSharpening YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone

Organic Urban Farming on a 1/2-Acre Property Urban Abundance Other films you might like Permaculture, Simple Living, Urban Living, Zero Waste, Food & Gardening, Community, Economy 5 mins Degrowth in the Suburbs What does sustainable living in the city look like? This film explores the different methods one family employs to reduce their impact. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living 5 mins Creatures of Place This family live an incredibly simple life, yet they have an abundance in so many things – food, community, time to create a beautiful life. Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Economy 5 mins From Finance to Farmer Explore the beautiful food forest Andrew Martin has created from a paddock of grass, and learn all the reasons why he's doing so. Share your thoughts about Urban Abundance Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @highspiritsfarm781 “ @petramacdougall “ @reginaldshannon4220 “ @JaninePrimrose Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . In the small town of Oxford, New Zealand, Kane and Fiona Hogan have transformed their urban 1/2-acre property into abundant veggie gardens. The aim of Urban Gardener is to build resilience and food security in their local community – both by growing food for people to purchase and by helping people to grow food in their own backyards. Here is yet another inspiring initiative that brings together the essentials for resilience: good healthy food and strong communities. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Urban Living About Urban Abundance 5 mins “ What a beautiful project! Very inspiring and you have sparked an idea in me to do similar. @highspiritsfarm781 YouTube ” “ Amazing video, really look forward to watching all this series, really love what you are doing! @petramacdougall YouTube ” “ Great film with a great idea to engage the community. Keep up the good work. @reginaldshannon4220 YouTube ” “ Beautiful idea, beautifully done, thanks for the inspiration. @JaninePrimrose YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone

Growing an Urban Food Forest in a Public Park to Feed the Community The City Food Commons Other films you might like Regenerating Nature, Food & Gardening 12 mins Fishing for the Future A small-scale, thoughtful and ethical approach to fishing our oceans is possible – this family is leading the way. Food & Gardening, Community, Permaculture, Urban Living 12 mins Together We Grow: The Story of Common Unity Learn the variety of ways this community comes together to help those in need to have access to great food and meaningful connections Community, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Farming 12 mins From Weedy Forests to Grassy Woodlands A film exploring how the simple practice of grazing goats on wild lands can lead to a healthier forest and a more connected community. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Urban Living 12 mins The Food Is Free Laneway A film showcasing Lou and the Food is Free Laneway she initiated alongside her house, following the principles of #foodisfree. Share your thoughts about The City Food Commons Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @turtle2212 “ @jaredtawharu9570 “ @randiclark1 “ @blakebro1 Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Film festival selections: Links to resources about creating a city food commons: Follow Roimata Food Commons on Facebook Roimata Food Commons in the Media The City Food Commons shares the story of Roimata Food Commons, an urban food forest initiative driven by Ōtautahi Christchurch local Michael Reynolds. The aim of the project is to empower the community to co-create space in a public park, reviving the notion of the Commons, which was once so common in societies around the world. Planting began in 2017 – “we got permission to plant 30 trees, so we planted 65” – and the food forest systems of the park now contain over 100 fruit and nut trees, many of them heritage trees, as well as over 1000 native plants, herbs, berries, vegetables, flowers, and perennial plants. Michael calls the Commons “a step away from the transactional relationship that dominates the way that we act in the world”. The term Commons refers to a space that holds or creates resources that are nurtured by the community for the long term benefit of the community. While the community is welcomed to working bees and planting days, participating in them is not a criteria for accessing the fruit and vegetables within. This free access to quality organic food is one of the many benefits of this Commons. Another is the community connections created as a result of coming together in the space. In addition, Michael has been able to convince the local council to stop spraying and to reduce mowing, a massive cost saving to the council that it would benefit from if more public parks were managed in this way. Like all projects of this nature, accessing funding to employ people to maintain the Commons and undertake the work of connecting the community around it is a constant and often inhibiting challenge. But once these projects really get going they can become community-managed and really prove their worth to the community. Please help us share this film and inspire others to undertake similar projects in their own public spaces! Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living About The City Food Commons 12 mins “ Your stories are so inspiring and make us understand that the solutions are there, we just have to grab them and give it a start. @turtle2212 YouTube ” “ This man speaks so beautifully and from his heart. A true hero. Thank you for your service to your local community and the world as a whole. @jaredtawharu9570 YouTube ” “ Yes! An idea that can be replicated in public parks all over the world! @randiclark1 YouTube ” “ Every single time you post, my heart gets more inspired and filled up! Keep up the good films!!! @blakebro1 YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone

Man Quits Job in Finance to Create a Food Forest From Finance to Farmer Other films you might like Permaculture, Food & Gardening, Urban Living, Regenerating Nature 15 mins Growing Wild Together We revisit the food forest we filmed five years ago to discover what's changed and how much more wild it's all become – plants and people! Permaculture, Community, Food & Gardening, Simple Living, Urban Living 15 mins The Plummery Find out how to grow an abundance of fruit and vegetables even when you have a tiny backyard garden in the middle of a busy city. Permaculture, Simple Living, Urban Living, Zero Waste, Food & Gardening, Community, Economy 15 mins Degrowth in the Suburbs What does sustainable living in the city look like? This film explores the different methods one family employs to reduce their impact. Share your thoughts about From Finance to Farmer Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @Jenny_Little_Wren “ @jandeligans2834 “ @Italics62 “ @PierreLaBaguette Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Find out more about Andrew's journey: Read about Andrew in the media. Subtitles Most of our subtitles are generated by YouTube (English) or created by volunteers. We try to make time to correct YouTube's English but for other languages we can't control the quality, sorry! Download your preferred language and upload it via your media player. From Finance to Farmer - English If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! Andrew Martin once worked in the finance industry in Australia, but after learning about the true state of the world as peak oil and climate change begin to take effect, he knew he had to leave that unsustainable lifestyle behind and do something useful to help heal the earth and to be more resilient in the face of change. He and his wife Beth moved to New Zealand and began the process of turning green-desert farmland into a productive and bountiful forest of food. It’s incredible to see how much they’re harvesting after just three years. Andrew researches extensively about the big interconnected issues in the realms of economy, environment and energy and offers his skills and knowledge to city and regional councils that need to build their own resilience (that would be pretty much all of them!). Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Economy About From Finance to Farmer 15 mins “ Thank you so much for making this documentary. It's great to see real people living real change. I look forward to the next episodes :). @Jenny_Little_Wren YouTube ” “ This is so inspiring! I could watch this everyday just to feel more hopeful. @jandeligans2834 YouTube ” “ A joy to watch -- that's the dream for more and more of us. One day! Truly inspiring, thank you. @Italics62 YouTube ” “ This person and his approach are incredible and his happiness and joy is brutally contagious! @PierreLaBaguette YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone

Beautiful 1-Acre Small-Scale Permaculture Farm Limestone Permaculture Tour #1 Other films you might like Permaculture, Food & Gardening, Urban Living, Regenerating Nature 13 mins Growing Wild Together We revisit the food forest we filmed five years ago to discover what's changed and how much more wild it's all become – plants and people! Permaculture, Community, Food & Gardening, Simple Living, Urban Living 13 mins The Plummery Find out how to grow an abundance of fruit and vegetables even when you have a tiny backyard garden in the middle of a busy city. Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Economy 13 mins From Finance to Farmer Explore the beautiful food forest Andrew Martin has created from a paddock of grass, and learn all the reasons why he's doing so. Share your thoughts about Limestone Permaculture Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @M0untainBerry “ @quin14ny “ @mattthompson3633 “ @deborahcoyle7612 Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Subtitles Most of our subtitles are generated by YouTube (English) or created by volunteers. We try to make time to correct YouTube's English but for other languages we can't control the quality, sorry! Download your preferred language and upload it via your media player. Limestone Permaculture Tour #1 - English Limestone Permaculture Tour #1 - Czech If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! This film is a tour of Limestone Permaculture Farm in New South Wales, Australia. Brett Cooper manages the 1-acre property as a productive farm helping to feed around 50 families. The tour includes a look at the orchard, caravan farm gate, chicken and duck areas, and shade house, and Brett talks about what brought him and his family to this complete change of lifestyle – in which they are thriving. Find out more about Limestone Permaculture: Watch our second tour, 5 years later, of Limestone Permaculture Watch our podcast conversation with Brett and Nici Visit the Limestone Permaculture website Farming, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature About Limestone Permaculture Tour #1 13 mins “ One of the most inspiring permaculture videos I've seen. Thank you. @M0untainBerry YouTube ” “ This gives me so much inspiration as I start this journey of transforming my garden using more permaculture techniques. @quin14ny YouTube ” “ Simply awesome. I'm about to start from scratch and I've never felt more invigorated. So inspirational. @mattthompson3633 YouTube ” “ Just watched the most recent video and then came back to watch this one… Watching how this beautiful farm has evolved, thrived, and changed so many people’s lives for the better is truly inspirational! @deborahcoyle7612 YouTube ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone

Make Amazing Compost with a Composting Toilet Closing the Loop Other films you might like Zero Waste, Community, Urban Living, Food & Gardening 7 mins Ben & bEartha: A Community's Compost Love Story Follow the remarkable journey of a passionate man making composting at a community-wide scale not just a dream but the real thing. Community, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living 7 mins A Life with Less Waste What secrets does this family hold to reducing individual impact on the planet by reducing family waste streams? Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Urban Living 7 mins Abdallah House A tour of a very small urban section that has been developed using permaculture principles to make best use of the space. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living 7 mins Creatures of Place This family live an incredibly simple life, yet they have an abundance in so many things – food, community, time to create a beautiful life. Share your thoughts about Closing the Loop Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @markanthony4655 “ @nadakuditigopikrishna6587 “ @Helen1118Kang “ @pennyparker2370 Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . We highly recommend the book Lisa mentions by Joseph Jenkins, The Humanure Handbook – you can buy it online or download a free PDF . Here’s a subject we’re super passionate about – although it’s not for everyone! Humanure composting is the ultimate in self-responsibility. When we use flush toilets we not only waste beautiful clean water, we waste an incredibly useful resource. Our poo, when properly composted, is a brilliant addition to our gardens, making it the ultimate in ways to create a closed-loop system. While this isn’t an immediate option for apartment-dwellers, it’s certainly an option for anyone with a back yard big enough to hold a couple of compost bays. In this video, Greg and Lisa describe one of the easiest ways to compost your poo. And not without a bit of humour too! Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste About Closing the Loop 7 mins “ Loved the film. Always wondered if it could be done, now I have the answer. Thank you so much. @markanthony4655 YouTube ” “ This method helps to get rid of polluting water resources across the world. Thank you very much for sharing this great video. @nadakuditigopikrishna6587 YouTube ” “ Awesome video! We need to spread this kind of videos to the world! Thank you so much. @Helen1118Kang YouTube ” “ Loved this film. We have been making humanure for 12 months now. No going back. @pennyparker2370 Instagram ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone

FILMS ABOUT HOMES AND BUILDING In these films we showcase different approaches to the spaces we dwell in – tiny houses on wheels, earth building, building with a focus on reclaimed or natural materials, home-builds and low-cost builds. Why are people choosing to downsize to tiny houses? Why is building using non-toxic materials important? What are the options and opportunities for living more aligned with earth's natural cycles? As filmmakers who have built our own tiny homes, lived in a variety of earth builds and small spaces and experienced the highs and lows of living in community, exploring ways to live that limit harm to planet and people is a big passion for us. We hope you'll enjoy and learn from these Homes & Building films! Browse all films Filter options: Use the buttons below to filter the list of films. You can select more than one option, and click again to deselect. Feature (+40 mins) Mid-length (21-40 mins) Short (0-20 mins) Community, Farming, Food & Gardening, Homes & Building, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste The New Peasants 60 mins A new feature film releasing in June 2025 about the philosophy and lifestyle choices of an Australian family living profoundly simply. Permaculture, Simple Living, Homes & Building, Community Strawbale Dream Home 25 mins Follow Adam and Sian as they build their traditional timber frame home combining timber joinery, strawbale and cob. Community, Simple Living, Regenerating Nature, Urban Living, Permaculture, Economy, Farming, Food & Gardening, Homes & Building, Zero Waste Living the Change 86 mins Living the Change is a feature-length documentary that explores solutions to the global crises we face today. Simple Living, Homes & Building The Handmade Housetruck 12 mins Explore the simple life and beautiful home of this couple in their beautiful off-grid handmade tiny house truck, built with love and skill. Community, Permaculture, Simple Living, Homes & Building Living Simply in an Off-Grid Tiny House 6 mins Living simply in just 20 square metres this family has found a different way of living that helps them to feel more sustained and content. Simple Living, Homes & Building Off-Grid Tiny House on Wheels 17 mins This 17-minute tiny house tour takes us through all the highs and lows of building a tiny house on wheels. Community, Simple Living, Permaculture, Homes & Building, Zero Waste $420 Tiny House 4 mins This film showcases the build of a very tiny house, built using reclaimed materials by a couple with no previous building experience. Simple Living, Homes & Building Earthbag Timelapse 2 mins A 3-minute time lapse showing the build of an earthbag tiny house built by unskilled labourers at Wurruk'an, in Gippsland, Australia. Community, Permaculture, Simple Living, Homes & Building Building a Beautiful, Rustic Tiny House 8 mins Meet Taj as she gives a tour and describes living simply in this 10 sq metre tiny house built using reclaimed materials.

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest Fools & Dreamers Other films you might like Regenerating Nature, Food & Gardening 30 mins Fishing for the Future A small-scale, thoughtful and ethical approach to fishing our oceans is possible – this family is leading the way. Community, Permaculture, Regenerating Nature, Farming 30 mins From Weedy Forests to Grassy Woodlands A film exploring how the simple practice of grazing goats on wild lands can lead to a healthier forest and a more connected community. Permaculture, Simple Living, Urban Living, Zero Waste, Food & Gardening, Community, Economy 30 mins Degrowth in the Suburbs What does sustainable living in the city look like? This film explores the different methods one family employs to reduce their impact. Community, Food & Gardening, Permaculture, Simple Living, Zero Waste, Urban Living 30 mins Creatures of Place This family live an incredibly simple life, yet they have an abundance in so many things – food, community, time to create a beautiful life. Share your thoughts about the film Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest Which film are you commenting on? Your name or username Your comment * Required Submit comment Your comment has been submitted “ @phyllisgenetti9970 “ @p_aulwhite “ @yobrvldas “ @anroburger7689 “ @small.footprints.aotearoa Thank you! This film was made possible through the generous financial support of the Biome Trust with assistance from The Gift Trust . Festival selections: Find out more about Hinewai Nature Reserve and Hugh Wilson: • Visit the Hinewai Reserve website • Read about the film in the media • The beautiful soundtrack to Fools & Dreamers , composed by Karl Steven and Ariana Tikao, is available for purchase as an album on Bandcamp . All proceeds from sales will be donated to Hinewai Reserve. Support Hinewai Nature Reserve: The work at Hinewai Reserve is made possible in part due to generous donations from people all over the world. If you’d like to make a contribution, big or small, you can do so using the PayPal donate button (you don’t need a PayPal account, just a credit card) or by bank transfer/cheque using the details below. Direct credit: Maurice White Native Forest Trust BNZ Akaroa 02 0832 0044225 00 Cheque: Maurice White Native Forest Trust Hinewai Reserve 632 Long Bay Road R.D.3 Akaroa 7583 New Zealand Subtitles Most of our subtitles are generated by YouTube (English) or created by volunteers. We try to make time to correct YouTube's English but for other languages we can't control the quality, sorry! Download your preferred language and upload it via your media player. Fools & Dreamers - English Fools & Dreamers - Spanish If you'd like to volunteer to create subtitles in your language, please contact us ! Audio Description An audio description (AD) version of this film is also available. Click this link to download the AD version of the Fools & Dreamers film . Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’ gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”. Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500 hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. He has proven without doubt that nature knows best – and that he is no fool. Watch the trailer for Fools & Dreamers Endorsements of Fools & Dreamers: “Fools and Dreamers tells the most important story of our time.” – Paul Hawken, founder Project Drawdown “Watch this natural Kiwi miracle: how the earth regenerates native bush if given half a chance.” – Bunny McDiarmid, Executive Director Greenpeace International “A powerful ‘call to action’ for all of us to heed.” – Jonathon Porritt, Forum for the Future “This is an inspirational documentary.” – Dr Mike Joy, freshwater ecologist “Regenerating human rights can learn from nature: it takes ‘Fools and Dreamers’ to give life a chance….” – a personal message from Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of Amnesty International Regenerating Nature, Simple Living About Fools & Dreamers 30 mins “ The world needs thousands of people like him. What a wonderful world it could be again. Legends @phyllisgenetti9970 YouTube ” “ This is my new go to film if ever I start believing that we cannot make change on a personal level. Hugh Wilson speaks with words of wisdom! @p_aulwhite YouTube ” “ This is one of my favourites. I rewatch it every once in a while when my soul needs saving. Tysm for capturing and sharing this story with the rest of the world. @yobrvldas Instagram ” “ I appreciate this documentary so much. This film will be the catalyst for change. @anroburger7689 YouTube ” “ I love this film....watched it over and over and told everyone to watch it. @small.footprints.aotearoa Instagram ” Five ways you can help increase our reach and impact Click on the options below to find out more about each one. Find out how 5 Host a community film screening 4 Become a Patreon subscriber 3 Make a one-off donation 2 Sign up for our newsletter 1 Share a film with someone