[Culturetalk] FW: Seed Film for Melanesians

[Elise Huffer]

From: Jude Fanton [mailto:jude at seedsavers.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, 8 September 2009 12:01 PM
To: michel fanton
Subject: Seed Film for Melanesians

 

Seed Film Released

Seed Savers has released Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi, a fifty-seven minute documentary that celebrates traditional food plants and the people that grow them. "Our Seeds" is available as a DVD from our website where a trailer and other film clips may be viewed:www.seedsavers.net <http://www.seedsavers.net> 



"Our Seeds: Seeds Blong Yumi" was made for Melanesian. It introduces those who stand at the source of humanitys diverse food heritage. It is a David and Goliath story where resilience and persuasive logic triumph over seemingly invincible forces that control much of our food.

"Our Seeds: Seeds Bong Yumi" features Pacific islanders as they face great challenges to their way of life, their culture and their traditional cultivation methodologies. They fall into the same traps as we do:- they replace innumerable varieties of root staples with modern hybrids that require pesticides and chemical fertilisers; they import low quality starch such as white rice, biscuits and noodles and risk losing their resilient food crops. This film seeks to reverse this trend.

There are developed instructive motion graphics and a rich sound track, mostly indigenous music recorded in the making of the film.Audio options are the original English soundtrack and Pacific Pigin.Subtitle options are English and French.

Seed Savers directors, Michel and Jude Fanton made the film from a hundred and sixty hours of footage in eleven countries: Spain, France, Italy, India, Sri Lanka, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands.Within the first six months the film had been shown on television in over a dozen Pacific nations. It has been screened in American Samoa, Samoa, Solomons, Vanuatu and Papua New Guine. The reaction to the film was jubilant and appreciative.

 

See three minute trailer of "Our Seeds" atwww.seedsavers.net <http://www.seedsavers.net> . Available online for AUD24 as a DVD. 37.5% discount on five copies or more.

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