GEFF2022 Program 3: Urgent Shorts

Streaming Online | October 26-30, 2022 | #GEFF2022| #GlobalExtractionAction

Check out the GEFF 2022 PROGRAM 3 * URGENT SHORTS here
Curated by Esther Figueroa 

The Urgent Shorts Program offers 50 publicly available short films – documentaries, news programming, activist media – that are dealing with urgent issues affecting often overlooked people, revealing the destructive impacts of extractive industries beyond Africa, particularly in Oceania. The Urgent Shorts focus on our forests and oceans, the  urgent threats of deforestation, community attempts to save existing forests while growing new ones, the urgent threats facing our oceans including deep sea mining, the extraction of ‘exotic’ fishes to be kept in aquariums, plastic pollution, and learning ways we can better grow the food we eat such as permaculture and food forests.

The Urgent Shorts, which are arranged thematically, include an Al Jazeera series on the US military occupied islands of Hawai’i and the land, water and livelihood crises of Native Hawaiians, investigative reporting by news outlets about deep sea mining, and a series of educational shorts about deep sea mining disseminated by Fiji-based Indigenous organization Pacific Network on Globalisation – shorts that show individuals, families and communities remembering and perpetuating traditional forms of sustainable agriculture while adding place specific innovations.

GEFF 2022 PROGRAM 1 * GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
GEFF 2022 PROGRAM 2 * AFRICA IN FOCUS
GEFF 2022 PROGRAM 4 * ANIMAL-HUMAN RELATIONS
GEFF 2022 PROGRAM 5 * PRESENTED BY WATERBEAR
GEFF 2022 PROGRAM 6 * PRESENTED BY DW DOCUMENTARY
GEFF 2022 SPECIAL EVENTS

FORESTS

Palawan Lost (Dir. Natalia Karachkova, 2018, 27 min)
Palmoil Driving Deforestation in Indonesia (Dir. Vice News Asia, 2021, 14 min)
The Tragedy of Deforestation (Dir. BBC Earth, 2022, 5 min)
Battling to Save Mexico’s Rain Forests from the Flame (Dir. BBC Earth Witness, 2022, 8 min)
Rainforest Mafias: How Violence and Impunity Fuel Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon (Dir. Human Rights Watch, 2019, 10 min)
Rewilding Iceland (Dir. Mossy Earth, 2022, 11 min)
We Flooded a Forest (Dir. Mossy Earth, 2022, 11 min)
Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (Dir. Jordan Osmond and Antoinette Wilson, 2019, 30 min)

OCEANS

Blue Peril: A Visual Investigation of Deep Sea Mining in the Pacific (Deep Sea Mining Campaign, 2022, 16′)
Setting the Boundaries: Papua New Guinea Voices from the Last Frontier (Dir. PANG Media, 2020, 7 min)
Setting the Boundaries: Fiji Voices from the Last Frontier (Dir. PANG Media, 2021, 7 min)
What is Deep Sea Mining? Episode 1: Tools for Ocean Literacy (Dir. Magarida Mendes, 2018, 7 min)
What is Deep Sea Mining? Episode 2: Deep Frontiers (Dir. Magarida Mendes, 2018, 7 min)
What is Deep Sea Mining? Episode 3: The Azores Case (Dir. Magarida Mendes, 2019, 9 min)
What is Deep Sea Mining? Episode 4: A Deep Sea Mining Glossary (Dir. Magarida Mendes, 2019, 6 min) 
What is Deep Sea Mining? Episode 5: The Pacific Precedent (Dir. Magarida Mendes, 2022, 6 min)
The Secret Race to Buy the Ocean Floor (Dir. DW Planet A, 2022, 12 min)
How Sand Mining Is Quietly Creating A Major Global Environmental Crisis (Dir. Forbes, 2021, 15 min) 
Kiribati: Battling for Survival (Dir. UN, 2020, 4 min) 
How Sand Mining Destroys One Home to Build Another (Dir. National Geographic, 2019, 17 min)
Illegal Sand Mining Is Ruining These Countries’ Ecosystems (Dir. Vice News, 2021, 28 min) 
Malu’i e Oseni: The Deep Sea Minders of Tonga (Dir. PANG Media, 2021, 8 min) 
Matagi Mālohi: Strong Winds (Dir. 350.org Pacific, 2022, 4 min)
The Impact of Keeping Exotic Fish (Dir. BBC Earth, 2022, 11 min, also part of the Animal-Human Relations Program!) 
Bilge Dumping (Dir. DW Planet A, 2022, 12 min)
The Problem of Plastic Pollution in the Rio Motagua, Guatemala (Dir. Dan van der Kooy, 2022, 11 min)

WATER

Water Crisis: A Global Problem That’s Getting Worse (Dir. Vice News, 2021, 23 min)
Corriendo para salvar una cuenca (Dir. Dani Casado and Maria Fernandez Neder, 2021, 17 min)
Cashing in on Thirst (Dir. DW Planet A, 2022, 11 min)

THE ENERGY CRISIS

Ancient Sunshine (Dir. Jason Livingston, 2020, 20 min)
Kishida Wants to Re-start Idled Nuclear Plants, Will the Japanese PM Face Public Pushback? (Dir. The World Is One News, 2022, 3 min) 
Germany: Heating of Public Buildings to be Restricted, No Illuminated Advertising Billboards (Dir. The World Is One News, 2022, 2 min) 
Europe’s hypocrisy on Fossil Fuels (Dir. Gravitas Plus, 2022, 7 min)
When The World Gets 1℃ Hotter (Dir. BBC World, 2022, 7 min)

THE COST OF LUXURY

Is Your Perfume Made Using an Endangered Species? (Dir. BBC Earth, 2022 12 min, also part of the Animal-Human Relations Program) 
Inside the Dead Shed (Dir. BBC Earth, 2022, 10 min, also part of the Animal-Human Relations Program!)
Luxury: Behind the Mirror (Dir. Zoe de Bussierre, Java Films, 2022, 15 min, also part of the Animal-Human Relations Program!)

EXTRACTION AND CORRUPTION

The Fight Against a US Mining Company in Jamaica Continues (Dir. Vice News, 2022, 20 min)
Undercover in Guyana: Exposing Chinese Business in South America (Dir. Vice News, 2022, 25 min)
Who feels It Knows It (Dir. Red Thread, 2022, 19 min) 

HAWAI’I OCCUPIED

How the Army Got to Bomb Hawai’i for $1 (Dir. Al Jazeera, Reporter Direct with Dena Takruri, 2022, 11 min)
Paradise Poisoned (Dir. Al Jazeera, Reporter Direct with Dena Takruri, 2022, 14 min) 
Who Has the Right to Hawaii’s Water? (Dir. Al Jazeera, 2022, 11 min) 
Who Can Afford to Live in Hawaii? (Dir. Al Jazeera, 2021, 8 min) 

BETTER WAYS TO GROW FOOD

Remothering the Land (Dir. Mark Decena and Liz Lupino Decena, 2021, 11 min)
Building Indigenous Food Sovereignty (Dir. Hua Parakore, Jordan Osmond and Antoinette Wilson, 2021, 9 min)
Syntropic Food Forest (Dir. Jordan Osmond and Antoinette Wilson, 2021, 24 min)
The 2000 Year Old Food Forest in Morocco (Dir. Geoff Lawton, 2022, 10 min) The Puerto Ricans Coming up with Solutions in the Face of Crisis (Dir. Bianca Graulau, 2022, 11 min)
The Other Reason Why Food Prices Are Rising (Dir. CNBC, 2022, 12 min)