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Environment At Core Of Matariki Month Documentaries
Monday, 23 May 2011
Environment At Core Of Matariki Month Documentaries
The Matariki constellation is on the rise around June every year and Maori Television is celebrating with a selection of environmental, kai and whanau themed documentaries.
Highlights for the Matariki month documentaries include premiere screenings of two critically acclaimed documentaries directed by Kathleen Gallagher with EARTH WHISPERERS: PAPATUANUKU and WATER WHISPERERS: TANGAROA.
WATER WHISPERERS: TANGAROA (Sunday 12 June at 8.30pm) features 10 stories of environmental redemption from the Poor Knights Marine Reserve to the Hurunui and Rakaia rivers, and including the Mike O’Donnell describing how a toxic Coromandel waterway was rescued from arsenic and effluent poisoning by sensible planting and community commitment.
EARTH WHISPERERS: PAPATUANUKU (Sunday 19 June at 8.30pm) features locations around New Zealand shot by acclaimed cameramen Alun Bollinger and Mike Single. It is an absorbing feature documentary which focuses on ten visionary New Zealanders out to prove a shift in consciousness can heal our environment.
Other highlights for June Matariki month screenings include the Merata Mita documentary SAVING GRACE, I AM THE RIVER, POLYNESIAN PANTHERS, THE STRENGTH OF WATER and FAST FOOD NATION.
On June 5 at 8.30pm you can join Hawke’s Bay horse whisperer Peter Karena and his wife Colleen and their six children in the internationally acclaimed THIS WAY OF LIFE documentary directed by Thomas Burstyn.
In CRUDE, take an eye opening look at the incredible journey of oil from its birth deep in the dinosaur inhabited past to its ascendancy as the indispensable ingredient of modern life, on Saturday 11 June at 9.30pm.
CRUDE reveals the disturbing irony that the latest scientific evidence suggests the headlong rush to exploit the remaining reserves will lead us down a dangerous road to the future.
Another interesting international documentary to watch is RIVER OF RENEWAL (Tuesday 14 June at 8.30pm) which tells the story of conflict over the resources of California and Oregon’s Klamath Basin.
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