'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - a ‘hands-on’ documentary produced by the Localising Food Project

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'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - A ‘hands-On’ Documentary Produced By The Localising Food Project

Project 2016-03-01 02:19:17 +1300


In 2013, a team of New Zealand permaculture educators hit the road for an ambitious teaching and filming tour: the Localising Food Project. They captured the stories of 250 different local food initiatives on video. Now, they’re distilling a series of documentaries aimed at disseminating successful local models, and inspiring a more self-sufficient, food-resilient nation.  The four part series 'Growing Schools' has just been released and is already attracting international interest.

With the rapidly increasing global ownership and scientific tampering with the integrity of seeds, as well as the legislative implications of NZ’s Food Bill and the looming TPPA, 'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' has been prioritised as the next documentary to be worked on. 

This educational documentary will show, step by step, how to select, process, store, distribute and propagate seeds – so that each of us can play our part in ensuring the survival of our seeds, now and for our children’s children. 

Your support will help us towards covering the costs of producing this S.O.S. documentary. Money raised beyond this target will assist with promotion and distribution. We are fortunate to have received and continue to receive a tremendous amount of volunteer time and are fundraising only for the balance needed to fund the editing process.  

 

 

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation over 90% of our vegetable varieties have been lost over the last 100 years. With 95% of the seeds available for purchase in this country being imported from overseas, the diversity and availability of our daily food is endangered. So now our hope lies in community-scale seed saving systems to propogate and protect seed for future generations.  

The Localising Food Project has captured dynamic video footage of inspirational models of seed swaps, seed exchanges, seed libraries, seed banks, and family seed businesses, in order to teach you how to easily replicate these processes in your community.

This educational documentary will show, step by step, how to select, process, store, distribute and propagate seeds – so that each of us can play our part in ensuring the survival of our seeds, now and for our children’s children. 

Your support will help us towards covering the costs of producing this S.O.S. documentary. Money raised beyond this target will assist with promotion and distribution. 

About The Localising Food Project

The Localising Food Project is an initiative of the Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa, a New Zealand registered charitable trust, whose objectives include Empowering Communities through Local Food Resilience. All work done to date has been achieved by the generosity of private donations and many thousands of voluntary hours of our dedicated team.

Visit our website localisingfood.com to find out more about the project, view some of our short film stories and download our recently completed 'Growing Schools' documentary.

Vsit our facebook page, sign up for our newsletter to stay in touch with our flourishing localising food community. Also please 'Like' and 'Share' our work and this campaign through your social media - many thanks!

 

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Update from the LFP Team

06/06/2016 at 12:43 PM


Greetings to you our supportive pledgers


This is a little update about the progress of our documentary and the delivery of your rewards…
Robina has been working full-on with film editor Tiago Stamato Velasco (Brazilian filmmaker residing in NZ) on ‘SOS: Save Our Seeds’ before and since the completion of the campaign, and also Tiago has been filming four more action interviews to extend its cultural diversity and geographical representation. 

We have several more weeks to go of film editing, sound editing (by Matt Aickin of Kerikeri) and the creation of original music for the documentary. 
The main documentary will be approx 1 hour 20 minutes, and the sequel called ‘Hands-on Seed Saving’ will be around 15 minutes. 
This will be a You-Tube mini-doco on the practicals of home seed saving, where views learn from a range of SOS presenters guiding them step by step how to select, process, store and share seed. 
Robina will be editing this with Reece Baker (Green Lemon Pictures Ltd) from Kapiti Coast.
 
We anticipate both docos to be ready for your download by the end of June, which is when we plan to get the rest of your rewards to you also. 

For those of you who also pledged to ‘Growing Schools’, our documentary launched at the end of last year, you may be interested to know that there will be an article about it in the next issue of OrganicNZ, a magazine well worth subscribing to. 
This will be our third article about the work of Localising Food Project in that magazine, with more to come. 
As soon as your rewards are dispatched, we will be fundraising for our next doco (already partly completed), ‘Perennial Paradise’, previously titled ‘Fruit & Nuts Unlimited’, through an international crowd funding platform. 
We will inform you when this is happening. 

Wishing you a cosy Winter

Robina McCurdy and the Localising Food Team

Robina McCurdy

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    Pledgers 203

    Jon Carapiet
    24/04/2016 at 7:14pm

    "Thanks for saving the future."

    yannis petzold
    24/04/2016 at 5:14pm

    "Keep up the much needed and amazing work!!!"

    Eleanor Harper
    24/04/2016 at 4:35pm

    " Let us save the world here in NZ from total genetic manipulation (GMOs) which Vandana Shiva calls "God Move Over". "

    Francis Wierzbicki
    24/04/2016 at 3:37pm
    John Hammond
    24/04/2016 at 3:27pm
    Diane Emerson
    24/04/2016 at 2:08pm
    Tess Windle James
    24/04/2016 at 2:05pm
    Juliet Adams
    24/04/2016 at 1:30pm

    "I'm really looking forward to showing this film at one of my monthly film evenings - soon!"

    Sue Gordon
    24/04/2016 at 11:59am
    Andrew McCurdy
    24/04/2016 at 11:41am
    Jane Kelsey
    24/04/2016 at 11:35am
    Joanne & Andrew Rundle-Keswick
    24/04/2016 at 10:44am

    "such needed information, keep going. One day the people will thank you once their eyes are opened ."

    Agnieszka Kowalew
    24/04/2016 at 8:09am
    Volker
    24/04/2016 at 5:58am
    Mel Marley
    24/04/2016 at 5:01am
    Hans Peter Graf
    24/04/2016 at 4:20am

    "Support from the antipodes (Switzerland) to this project !"

    Sassy acorn
    24/04/2016 at 2:42am
    Ellen Schindler
    23/04/2016 at 9:28pm
    Avril Stott
    23/04/2016 at 9:13pm
    Karen
    23/04/2016 at 9:11pm
    Lauren Walker
    23/04/2016 at 7:47pm

    "This is a great initiative. There are few things more important that ensuring our food security. Thanks to all involved!"

    Deva
    23/04/2016 at 7:40pm
    Daniel du Plooy
    23/04/2016 at 6:23pm
    Lethea Erz
    23/04/2016 at 5:46pm
    Anonymous pledger
    23/04/2016 at 4:21pm
    Jay
    23/04/2016 at 4:21pm

    "Thank you !!! You are a wonderful group of poeple doing very important work!!!"

    Alistair Wait
    23/04/2016 at 1:30pm
    Robin Allison
    23/04/2016 at 12:35pm
    Graeme North
    23/04/2016 at 12:19pm
    Richard Jakob-Hoff
    23/04/2016 at 11:27am

    "This project is a very important contribution to the sustainable future we all want. Please add your support in whatever way you can. "

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    'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - A ‘hands-On’ Documentary Produced By The Localising Food Project

    Project 2016-03-01 02:19:17 +1300


    In 2013, a team of New Zealand permaculture educators hit the road for an ambitious teaching and filming tour: the Localising Food Project. They captured the stories of 250 different local food initiatives on video. Now, they’re distilling a series of documentaries aimed at disseminating successful local models, and inspiring a more self-sufficient, food-resilient nation.  The four part series 'Growing Schools' has just been released and is already attracting international interest.

    With the rapidly increasing global ownership and scientific tampering with the integrity of seeds, as well as the legislative implications of NZ’s Food Bill and the looming TPPA, 'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' has been prioritised as the next documentary to be worked on. 

    This educational documentary will show, step by step, how to select, process, store, distribute and propagate seeds – so that each of us can play our part in ensuring the survival of our seeds, now and for our children’s children. 

    Your support will help us towards covering the costs of producing this S.O.S. documentary. Money raised beyond this target will assist with promotion and distribution. We are fortunate to have received and continue to receive a tremendous amount of volunteer time and are fundraising only for the balance needed to fund the editing process.  

     

     

    According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation over 90% of our vegetable varieties have been lost over the last 100 years. With 95% of the seeds available for purchase in this country being imported from overseas, the diversity and availability of our daily food is endangered. So now our hope lies in community-scale seed saving systems to propogate and protect seed for future generations.  

    The Localising Food Project has captured dynamic video footage of inspirational models of seed swaps, seed exchanges, seed libraries, seed banks, and family seed businesses, in order to teach you how to easily replicate these processes in your community.

    This educational documentary will show, step by step, how to select, process, store, distribute and propagate seeds – so that each of us can play our part in ensuring the survival of our seeds, now and for our children’s children. 

    Your support will help us towards covering the costs of producing this S.O.S. documentary. Money raised beyond this target will assist with promotion and distribution. 

    About The Localising Food Project

    The Localising Food Project is an initiative of the Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa, a New Zealand registered charitable trust, whose objectives include Empowering Communities through Local Food Resilience. All work done to date has been achieved by the generosity of private donations and many thousands of voluntary hours of our dedicated team.

    Visit our website localisingfood.com to find out more about the project, view some of our short film stories and download our recently completed 'Growing Schools' documentary.

    Vsit our facebook page, sign up for our newsletter to stay in touch with our flourishing localising food community. Also please 'Like' and 'Share' our work and this campaign through your social media - many thanks!

     

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    You need to pledge to see this update.

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    Update from the LFP Team

    06/06/2016 at 12:43 PM


    Greetings to you our supportive pledgers


    This is a little update about the progress of our documentary and the delivery of your rewards…
    Robina has been working full-on with film editor Tiago Stamato Velasco (Brazilian filmmaker residing in NZ) on ‘SOS: Save Our Seeds’ before and since the completion of the campaign, and also Tiago has been filming four more action interviews to extend its cultural diversity and geographical representation. 

    We have several more weeks to go of film editing, sound editing (by Matt Aickin of Kerikeri) and the creation of original music for the documentary. 
    The main documentary will be approx 1 hour 20 minutes, and the sequel called ‘Hands-on Seed Saving’ will be around 15 minutes. 
    This will be a You-Tube mini-doco on the practicals of home seed saving, where views learn from a range of SOS presenters guiding them step by step how to select, process, store and share seed. 
    Robina will be editing this with Reece Baker (Green Lemon Pictures Ltd) from Kapiti Coast.
     
    We anticipate both docos to be ready for your download by the end of June, which is when we plan to get the rest of your rewards to you also. 

    For those of you who also pledged to ‘Growing Schools’, our documentary launched at the end of last year, you may be interested to know that there will be an article about it in the next issue of OrganicNZ, a magazine well worth subscribing to. 
    This will be our third article about the work of Localising Food Project in that magazine, with more to come. 
    As soon as your rewards are dispatched, we will be fundraising for our next doco (already partly completed), ‘Perennial Paradise’, previously titled ‘Fruit & Nuts Unlimited’, through an international crowd funding platform. 
    We will inform you when this is happening. 

    Wishing you a cosy Winter

    Robina McCurdy and the Localising Food Team

    Robina McCurdy

    You need to pledge to see this update.

      Jon Carapiet
      24/04/2016 at 7:14pm

      "Thanks for saving the future."

      yannis petzold
      24/04/2016 at 5:14pm

      "Keep up the much needed and amazing work!!!"

      Eleanor Harper
      24/04/2016 at 4:35pm

      " Let us save the world here in NZ from total genetic manipulation (GMOs) which Vandana Shiva calls "God Move Over". "

      Francis Wierzbicki
      24/04/2016 at 3:37pm
      John Hammond
      24/04/2016 at 3:27pm
      Diane Emerson
      24/04/2016 at 2:08pm
      Tess Windle James
      24/04/2016 at 2:05pm
      Juliet Adams
      24/04/2016 at 1:30pm

      "I'm really looking forward to showing this film at one of my monthly film evenings - soon!"

      Sue Gordon
      24/04/2016 at 11:59am
      Andrew McCurdy
      24/04/2016 at 11:41am
      Jane Kelsey
      24/04/2016 at 11:35am
      Joanne & Andrew Rundle-Keswick
      24/04/2016 at 10:44am

      "such needed information, keep going. One day the people will thank you once their eyes are opened ."

      Agnieszka Kowalew
      24/04/2016 at 8:09am
      Volker
      24/04/2016 at 5:58am
      Mel Marley
      24/04/2016 at 5:01am
      Hans Peter Graf
      24/04/2016 at 4:20am

      "Support from the antipodes (Switzerland) to this project !"

      Sassy acorn
      24/04/2016 at 2:42am
      Ellen Schindler
      23/04/2016 at 9:28pm
      Avril Stott
      23/04/2016 at 9:13pm
      Karen
      23/04/2016 at 9:11pm
      Lauren Walker
      23/04/2016 at 7:47pm

      "This is a great initiative. There are few things more important that ensuring our food security. Thanks to all involved!"

      Deva
      23/04/2016 at 7:40pm
      Daniel du Plooy
      23/04/2016 at 6:23pm
      Lethea Erz
      23/04/2016 at 5:46pm
      Anonymous pledger
      23/04/2016 at 4:21pm
      Jay
      23/04/2016 at 4:21pm

      "Thank you !!! You are a wonderful group of poeple doing very important work!!!"

      Alistair Wait
      23/04/2016 at 1:30pm
      Robin Allison
      23/04/2016 at 12:35pm
      Graeme North
      23/04/2016 at 12:19pm
      Richard Jakob-Hoff
      23/04/2016 at 11:27am

      "This project is a very important contribution to the sustainable future we all want. Please add your support in whatever way you can. "

      Followers of 'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - a ‘hands-on’ documentary produced by the Localising Food Project

      This campaign was successful and got its funding on 26/04/2016 at 10:00 PM.