WeTheUnCivilised, A Life Story - Film Screening. 17 November 2017, 7.30pm. The Hanover Community Centre (downstairs hall), 33 Southover Street, Brighton, BN2. Free entry. All welcome.
Disillusioned by a story of consumption and alienation, a newly-married couple are called to action. Carrying with them their unborn child, they embark on a year-long exploration of the UK in search of the seeds of a different story, and with it hope for the future.
We join Pete and Lily on an intimate and life-changing journey as they confront the stark reality of our times, and discover a hidden culture of connection and belonging.
The film features conversations with grassroots activists and leading figures of the UK ecological movement, including: Satish Kumar (editor of The Ecologist), Polly Higgins (ecocide lawyer), Bruce Parry (explorer), Martin Shaw (founder of School of Myth), Jewels Wingfield (ecofeminist), Mac Macartney (founder of Embercombe), Simon Fairlie (editor of The Land), Peter Owen Jones (clergyman, presenter), Glennie Kindred (author and artist), and the late Patrick Whitefield (permaculturist).
A Life Story is a tale of both deep grief and inspired hope, unearthing the structures that perpetuate ecological destruction, whilst providing a soulful exploration of our humanity and our yearning to live in relationship to one another and the natural world.
“ A stunning and sensitive journey into ecology, humanity and spirituality.”
The Cube Cinema
“ Moving… Tragic… Inspiring ”
Bruce Parry
“Once in a while a film comes along that has profound impact – this is a delicious taste of what can be.”
Polly Higgins
Peter and Lily will join us at the screening for discussion.
Disillusioned by a story of consumption and alienation, a newly-married couple are called to action. Carrying with them their unborn child, they embark on a year-long exploration of the UK in search of the seeds of a different story, and with it hope for the future.
We join Pete and Lily on an intimate and life-changing journey as they confront the stark reality of our times, and discover a hidden culture of connection and belonging.
The film features conversations with grassroots activists and leading figures of the UK ecological movement, including: Satish Kumar (editor of The Ecologist), Polly Higgins (ecocide lawyer), Bruce Parry (explorer), Martin Shaw (founder of School of Myth), Jewels Wingfield (ecofeminist), Mac Macartney (founder of Embercombe), Simon Fairlie (editor of The Land), Peter Owen Jones (clergyman, presenter), Glennie Kindred (author and artist), and the late Patrick Whitefield (permaculturist).
A Life Story is a tale of both deep grief and inspired hope, unearthing the structures that perpetuate ecological destruction, whilst providing a soulful exploration of our humanity and our yearning to live in relationship to one another and the natural world.
“ A stunning and sensitive journey into ecology, humanity and spirituality.”
The Cube Cinema
“ Moving… Tragic… Inspiring ”
Bruce Parry
“Once in a while a film comes along that has profound impact – this is a delicious taste of what can be.”
Polly Higgins
Peter and Lily will join us at the screening for discussion.
Thursday 27 July (doors open 7.3pm for a) 8pm start. A Plastic Ocean - Hanover Action Film Night, Hanover Centre. Please display a poster
A Plastic Ocean is a new feature-length adventure documentary that brings to light the consequences of our global disposable lifestyle. We thought 💭 we could use plastic once and throw it away with negligible impact to humans and animals. That turns out to be untrue.
In A Plastic Ocean, an international team of adventurers, researchers, and Ocean ambassadors go on a mission around the globe to uncover the shocking truth about what is truly lurking beneath the surface of our seemingly pristine Ocean.
See film website: www.plasticoceans.org/film/
A Plastic Ocean is a new feature-length adventure documentary that brings to light the consequences of our global disposable lifestyle. We thought 💭 we could use plastic once and throw it away with negligible impact to humans and animals. That turns out to be untrue.
In A Plastic Ocean, an international team of adventurers, researchers, and Ocean ambassadors go on a mission around the globe to uncover the shocking truth about what is truly lurking beneath the surface of our seemingly pristine Ocean.
See film website: www.plasticoceans.org/film/
Friday 7th April, Hanover Action Film: 'Tomorrow'. .
Winner of Best Documentary at the Cesar Awards (the French Oscars),
‘Tomorrow’ has been hugely impactful. Produced by activist and writer Cyril Dion and actress/director Mélanie Laurent (see below), it tells the story of their search for solutions to the crisis humanity faces. It is a hugely positive, affirming and inspirational film, exploring creative solutions in the fields of food, energy, transport, economics and education. It visits permaculture farms, urban agriculture projects, community-owned renewable projects, local currencies, creative schools, ambitious recycling projects. It has been a huge boost to community-led projects, and is currently on release in 29 other countries, regularly receiving standing ovations, and leading to the formation of many new community projects. It is the perfect antidote to the current sense of global despondency.
Winner of Best Documentary at the Cesar Awards (the French Oscars),
‘Tomorrow’ has been hugely impactful. Produced by activist and writer Cyril Dion and actress/director Mélanie Laurent (see below), it tells the story of their search for solutions to the crisis humanity faces. It is a hugely positive, affirming and inspirational film, exploring creative solutions in the fields of food, energy, transport, economics and education. It visits permaculture farms, urban agriculture projects, community-owned renewable projects, local currencies, creative schools, ambitious recycling projects. It has been a huge boost to community-led projects, and is currently on release in 29 other countries, regularly receiving standing ovations, and leading to the formation of many new community projects. It is the perfect antidote to the current sense of global despondency.
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Free Film: The Vanishing of the Bees
Bees are disappearing all over the planet and no one knows exactly why. The situation is both dire and all too real. An important documentary exploring this subject.
Bees are disappearing all over the planet and no one knows exactly why. The situation is both dire and all too real. An important documentary exploring this subject.
Dirt! The Movie - takes you inside the wonders of the soil. It tells the story of Earth’s most valuable and under-appreciated source of fertility–from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation. The Movie brings to life the environmental, economic, social and political impact that the soil has. It shares the stories of experts from all over the world who study and are able to harness the beauty and power of a respectful and mutually beneficial relationship with soil. DIRT! The Movie is a call to action. What we’ve destroyed, we can heal.
Film: Drill Baby Drill
HASL presents Drill Baby Drill, a film by Lech Kowalski.
One day the people who live in a small village located in far eastern Poland near the Ukrainian border, an ecologically pristine agricultural area called the lungs of Poland discover that Chevron, the world's fourth largest energy corporation plans to build a shale gas well in their village.
At first the villagers are not against the construction of the gas well but after doing some research they discover that maybe having a shale gas well so near the farms is not a good idea.
The filmmaker Lech Kowalski was there to film the first ever farmer rebellion against Chevron. But energy companies and the Polish government hope to hit a golden shale gas jackpot and the odds are against the farmers winning. The story about their struggle weaves around their actions and the realities that are taking place far away in Pennsylvania, called the “Saudi Arabia” of shale gas mining. It’s too late to stop the energy companies in Pennsylvania but can the farmers win in Poland? What happens is a surprise, even to the farmers in this small village of fifty families.
One day the people who live in a small village located in far eastern Poland near the Ukrainian border, an ecologically pristine agricultural area called the lungs of Poland discover that Chevron, the world's fourth largest energy corporation plans to build a shale gas well in their village.
At first the villagers are not against the construction of the gas well but after doing some research they discover that maybe having a shale gas well so near the farms is not a good idea.
The filmmaker Lech Kowalski was there to film the first ever farmer rebellion against Chevron. But energy companies and the Polish government hope to hit a golden shale gas jackpot and the odds are against the farmers winning. The story about their struggle weaves around their actions and the realities that are taking place far away in Pennsylvania, called the “Saudi Arabia” of shale gas mining. It’s too late to stop the energy companies in Pennsylvania but can the farmers win in Poland? What happens is a surprise, even to the farmers in this small village of fifty families.
'Growing Change'
Growing Change is a documentary that looks at one of the most exciting experiments in the world to grow a fair and sustainable food system. In Venezuela, from fishing villages to cacao plantations to urban gardens, a growing social movement is showing what's possible when communities, not corporations, start to take control of food. Members of Sussex Food Sovereignty Movement will be coming along to lead a discussion following the film.
The Yes Men Fix the World.
The History of Oil
Free showing of The History of Oil Robert Newman
A mixture of stand up comedy and introductory lecture on geo politics and peak oil - arguing that 20th Century Western foreign policy should be seen as a continuous struggle by the West to control Middle Eastern oil.
'Intelligent comedy at it's finest ' 'Entertaining as well as enlightening '
A mixture of stand up comedy and introductory lecture on geo politics and peak oil - arguing that 20th Century Western foreign policy should be seen as a continuous struggle by the West to control Middle Eastern oil.
'Intelligent comedy at it's finest ' 'Entertaining as well as enlightening '
97% Owned
97% Owned is a new documentary that reveals how money is at the root of our current social and economic crisis. Featuring frank interviews and commentary from economists, campaigners and former bankers, it exposes the privatised, debt-based monetary system that gives banks the power to create money, shape the economy, cause crises and push house prices out of reach.
Fact-based and clearly explained, in just 60 minutes it shows how the power to create money is the piece of the puzzle that economists were missing when they failed to predict the crisis
97% Owned is a new documentary that reveals how money is at the root of our current social and economic crisis. Featuring frank interviews and commentary from economists, campaigners and former bankers, it exposes the privatised, debt-based monetary system that gives banks the power to create money, shape the economy, cause crises and push house prices out of reach.
Fact-based and clearly explained, in just 60 minutes it shows how the power to create money is the piece of the puzzle that economists were missing when they failed to predict the crisis
- where does money come from?
- Who creates it?
- Who decides how it gets used?
- And what does that mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when money and finance breaks down?
Permaculture: the growing edge
Today, anyone who loves the earth knows that we face a huge crisis. Climate change, oil spills, toxins and habitat destruction threaten the viability of ecosystems around the world, and damage the life-support systems that we all depend upon. The reality is alarming and sometimes overwhelming. And yet—solutions to our most grave problems do exist. While governments stall and politicians prevaricate, ordinary people around the world are making changes in their lives and trying out new ways of growing food, providing for human needs, and building community.
Gasland
A film by Josh Fox. The technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing is considered in this film. This is particularly relevant as there is a proposed site for fracking at Balcombe, north of Haywards Heath in East Sussex and a local campaign against fracking. Local News in National Press
Home
A 2009 moving, and beautiful, documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
It shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is threatening
the ecological balance of the planet. The documentary chronicles the
present day state of the Earth, its climate and how we as the dominant
species have long-term repercussions on its future. A theme expressed
throughout the documentary is that of linkage—how all organisms and
the Earth are linked in a "delicate but crucial" natural balance with
each other, and how no organism can be self-sufficient.
Beyond the Brink
A young filmmaker’s take on the climate change debate. 18-year-old Ross Harrison spent a year chasing up experts, studying the news and filming to create a short documentary that answers the ever-pressing questions, are we really causing climate change, and who cares? The result is a 40 minute film the knowns and the unknowns of the science. Interviews with Sir David Attenborough, Mark Lynas, David Shukman, Prof Dieter Helm, the UK Youth Climate Coalition, and Ross’ grandparents among others, offer fresh perspectives on a subject that saturates the media, divides the public, and yet is still meaningless to many.
The 11th Hour
The last moment when change is possible... The film explores how we've arrived at this moment : how we live, how we impact the earth's ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey and sustainable design experts William McDonough and Bruce Mau in addition to over 50 leading scientists, thinkers and leaders who discuss the most important issues that face our planet and people.
The Age of Stupid
Starring Pete Postlethwaite as a man living in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
The Story of Stuff
Highlights "How Our Obsession With Stuff Is Trashing The Planet, Our Communities, Our Health - And A Vision For Change". It is an extremely well researched and eye-opening fast pace animation about our lifestyles and obsessions with material products and the impact on all our "stuff" has on our world.
The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil
An American documentary film that explores the Special Period in Peacetime and its aftermath; the economic collapse and eventual recovery of Cuba following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Following the dramatic steps taken by both the Cuban government and citizens, its major themes include urban agriculture, energy dependence, and sustainability. The film is a reflection of the peak oil scenario argued by oil industry experts and political activists. Cuba began a slow recovery focused not on finding new energy sources, but on rejecting consumption in favor of sustainable growth.
The Story of Cap and Trade
A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.
HASL films
HASL Film: Trashed: Thursday 12 February 2015, 8pm-9.30pm. Unlike any other time in human history the last 50 years have seen an unprecedented rise of non-reusable waste - an award winning documentary about our throw away culture with Jeremy irons. The Hanover (function room), Queens Park Road. Free - donations welcomed. See Trailer
HASL Film and AGM: Friday 14 November 2014, 7.30pm-9.30pm. Hanover Centre - Upper Hall. Film : The Economics of Happiness (free, but donations welcomed) with discussion. Also, there will be:
- our Annual General Meeting (and consideration of Annual Report)
- Bring and share buffet
- Hanover10:10 exhibition of Eco-refit works at the Hanover Centre building (Facebook Page link).
HASL Film: Cowspiracy: the sustainability secret. Tues. 13 January 2015, 8pm-9.30pm. The Hanover Pub, Function Room. 242 Queens Park Road, Brighton.
- a documentary set to reveal the absolutely devastating environmental impact large-scale factory farming has on our planet, and offer a path to global sustainability for a growing population. FREE. All are welcome. More on the Film Website and the Cowspiracy Fact Video Trailer
10 December - HASL Film Season: The Yes Men Fix the World
HASL film programme continues with The Yes Men Fix the World on 10th December 2012 a screwball true story that follows a couple of political activists as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet.
“Funnier and more useful than Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno, this guerrilla movie records for posterity the serious satirical work of the poker-faced American prankster” The Observer
Poster - if you have a window you can display it in that would be much appreciated
HASL Film Season. THE ISLAND PRESIDENT. 8.00pm, Community Room, The Hanover Pub, 242 Queen's Park Road, Brighton.
Jon Shenk’s The Island President tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable.
HASL Film: Trashed: Thursday 12 February 2015, 8pm-9.30pm. Unlike any other time in human history the last 50 years have seen an unprecedented rise of non-reusable waste - an award winning documentary about our throw away culture with Jeremy irons. The Hanover (function room), Queens Park Road. Free - donations welcomed. See Trailer
HASL Film and AGM: Friday 14 November 2014, 7.30pm-9.30pm. Hanover Centre - Upper Hall. Film : The Economics of Happiness (free, but donations welcomed) with discussion. Also, there will be:
- our Annual General Meeting (and consideration of Annual Report)
- Bring and share buffet
- Hanover10:10 exhibition of Eco-refit works at the Hanover Centre building (Facebook Page link).
HASL Film: Cowspiracy: the sustainability secret. Tues. 13 January 2015, 8pm-9.30pm. The Hanover Pub, Function Room. 242 Queens Park Road, Brighton.
- a documentary set to reveal the absolutely devastating environmental impact large-scale factory farming has on our planet, and offer a path to global sustainability for a growing population. FREE. All are welcome. More on the Film Website and the Cowspiracy Fact Video Trailer
10 December - HASL Film Season: The Yes Men Fix the World
HASL film programme continues with The Yes Men Fix the World on 10th December 2012 a screwball true story that follows a couple of political activists as they infiltrate the world of big business and pull off outrageous pranks that highlight the ways that corporate greed is destroying the planet.
“Funnier and more useful than Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno, this guerrilla movie records for posterity the serious satirical work of the poker-faced American prankster” The Observer
Poster - if you have a window you can display it in that would be much appreciated
HASL Film Season. THE ISLAND PRESIDENT. 8.00pm, Community Room, The Hanover Pub, 242 Queen's Park Road, Brighton.
Jon Shenk’s The Island President tells the story of President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives, a man confronting a problem greater than any other world leader has ever faced—the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. After bringing democracy to the Maldives after thirty years of despotic rule, Nasheed is now faced with an even greater challenge: as one of the most low-lying countries in the world, a rise of three feet in sea level would submerge the 1200 islands of the Maldives enough to make them uninhabitable.
The Corporation
A 2003 Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan. Critical of the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through specific examples.