'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
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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
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Pledgers 203
21/04/2016 at 9:38am
21/04/2016 at 6:42am
"Let's save seeds for local food security!"
20/04/2016 at 10:48am
20/04/2016 at 12:57am
19/04/2016 at 10:42pm
19/04/2016 at 7:30pm
"Thanks you for filling an awareness need of the now with a priority of the future. Much love. Xoxo"
16/04/2016 at 3:54pm
16/04/2016 at 4:45am
"Wishing with all my heart the easy and joyful progress on this beautiful initiative. Baloo"
16/04/2016 at 2:45am
14/04/2016 at 1:21pm
"Thank you so much Robina and your team for making such an important project happen"
14/04/2016 at 8:54am
"What a valuable project ... we will ALL need these skills in our families and communities ... :)"
14/04/2016 at 12:09am
13/04/2016 at 11:23pm
13/04/2016 at 8:24pm
"Great initiative for the well being of humanity and our planet."
13/04/2016 at 8:02pm
"Wonderful initiative. thank you."
13/04/2016 at 12:14pm
"Good luck and keep up the great work"
13/04/2016 at 11:58am
13/04/2016 at 11:43am
12/04/2016 at 6:25pm
"Go team - looking forward to seeing your creation. With love to you from Lisa, Greg and the wee bump ; )"
12/04/2016 at 5:52pm
12/04/2016 at 3:49pm
"The trailer looks very inspirational. Love to see Maoris with their stunning potato varieties and other vegetables. Jude @ Seed Savers in Oz"
12/04/2016 at 1:24pm
12/04/2016 at 9:33am
12/04/2016 at 7:03am
"I believe in the future and in the health of our world"
12/04/2016 at 6:44am
"Thank you Robina & Team - From my heart I send my love & support to you all for being such a Kaitiaki for Natures gift of seeds - Arohanui"
12/04/2016 at 5:59am
12/04/2016 at 2:29am
"Thanks for all your essential work, in raising awareness before its too late !"
11/04/2016 at 11:03pm
"a great cause. Thank you for your hard work. "
11/04/2016 at 8:59pm
11/04/2016 at 6:46pm
"This awesome project, recording awesome projects around our awesome country needs all our support, in whatever way we can!"
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Followers of 'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - a ‘hands-on’ documentary produced by the Localising Food Project
'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!
Comments
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
You need to pledge to see this update.
21/04/2016 at 9:38am
21/04/2016 at 6:42am
"Let's save seeds for local food security!"
20/04/2016 at 10:48am
20/04/2016 at 12:57am
19/04/2016 at 10:42pm
19/04/2016 at 7:30pm
"Thanks you for filling an awareness need of the now with a priority of the future. Much love. Xoxo"
16/04/2016 at 3:54pm
16/04/2016 at 4:45am
"Wishing with all my heart the easy and joyful progress on this beautiful initiative. Baloo"
16/04/2016 at 2:45am
14/04/2016 at 1:21pm
"Thank you so much Robina and your team for making such an important project happen"
14/04/2016 at 8:54am
"What a valuable project ... we will ALL need these skills in our families and communities ... :)"
14/04/2016 at 12:09am
13/04/2016 at 11:23pm
13/04/2016 at 8:24pm
"Great initiative for the well being of humanity and our planet."
13/04/2016 at 8:02pm
"Wonderful initiative. thank you."
13/04/2016 at 12:14pm
"Good luck and keep up the great work"
13/04/2016 at 11:58am
13/04/2016 at 11:43am
12/04/2016 at 6:25pm
"Go team - looking forward to seeing your creation. With love to you from Lisa, Greg and the wee bump ; )"
12/04/2016 at 5:52pm
12/04/2016 at 3:49pm
"The trailer looks very inspirational. Love to see Maoris with their stunning potato varieties and other vegetables. Jude @ Seed Savers in Oz"
12/04/2016 at 1:24pm
12/04/2016 at 9:33am
12/04/2016 at 7:03am
"I believe in the future and in the health of our world"
12/04/2016 at 6:44am
"Thank you Robina & Team - From my heart I send my love & support to you all for being such a Kaitiaki for Natures gift of seeds - Arohanui"
12/04/2016 at 5:59am
12/04/2016 at 2:29am
"Thanks for all your essential work, in raising awareness before its too late !"
11/04/2016 at 11:03pm
"a great cause. Thank you for your hard work. "
11/04/2016 at 8:59pm
11/04/2016 at 6:46pm
"This awesome project, recording awesome projects around our awesome country needs all our support, in whatever way we can!"
Followers of 'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - a ‘hands-on’ documentary produced by the Localising Food Project
I want to embed this project somewhere