UK Green Film Festival
The UK Green Film Festival kicks off this weekend and will celebrate some international award winning films with environmental themes.
The UK's only nationwide environmental film festival showcases outstanding independent documentary films and explores a wide range of environmental causes, concerns and debates - and this year’s programme is the most diverse yet.
We take a look at the movie you absolutely cannot miss.
- The Last Catch - screened 1st June
The Last Catch will kick off the UK Green Film Festival: not only is it the opening night film, but it will also be the UK premiere for the movie.
The Last Catch looks at the shocking reality facing the bluefin tuna species, and will see Marcus CM Schmidt in the director's chair.
This intense movie looks not only at the depleting numbers of tuna, but also the fisherman who are struggling to make a living from this trade.
- Expedition To The End of the World - screened 8th June.
Expedition To The End of the World will bring the festival to a close on 8th June, as the movie receives its UK theatrical premiere.
Expedition To The End of the World will be the second feature film from Daniel Dencik: he made his debut with Moon Rider back in 2012.
The documentary/adventure follows a journey of discovery to go to the last white areas on the world map.
Expedition to the End of the World is a film conceived and brought to life on a grand scale - a long forgotten childhood dream lived out by grown artists and scientists.
- Bay of All Saints - screened 3rd June
Annie Eastman is one of the female filmmakers to watch out for at the festival, as she delivers Bay of All Saints.
Bay of All Saints marks the directorial debut of Eastman: she has moved out of the editorial department into the director's chair.
In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, shacks built on stilts over the ocean bay.
When the government threatens to reclaim the bay in the name of ecological restoration, hundreds of families are about to lose their homes.
Bay Of All Saints is a lyrical portrait of three single-mothers living in the water slums during this crisis. It looks set to be a powerful and heart-breaking watch.
- A River Changes Course - screened 4th June
A River Changes Course premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last year, and now it is part of the UK Green Film Festival this week.
Kalyanee Mam is in the director's chair for the film: she has already won the Grand Jury Award for World Cinema Documentary at Sundance for this film.
A River Changes Course tells the story of three families living in contemporary Cambodia as they face hard choices forced by rapid development and struggle to maintain their traditional ways of life as the modern world closes in around them.
A River Changes Course will take us into the heart of Cambodia and explores the everyday struggle of some of the people who live there.
- Musicwood - screened 5th June
Maxine Trump is another female filmmaker making her feature film directorial debut with Musicwood: a movie that she also produced.
The world's most famous guitar-makers are on a desperate mission to stop Native American loggers from devastating a primeval forest, threatening their own culture and the future of the acoustic guitar.
Musicwood is about an unknown slice of American history, an unexpected and incredibly serious threat to the acoustic guitar, and a conflict that resists easy interpretations.
- Lost Rivers - screened 6th June
It is great to see so many female directors on the line-up this year, as Caroline Bacle is behind Lost Rivers.
Bacle has worked in TV and shorts, but Lost Rivers will mark her feature film directorial debut: this is a film that she also penned.
This feature documentary takes us on an adventure down below and across the globe, retracing the history of the lost urban rivers by plunging into archival maps and going underground with clandestine urban explorers.
The film searches for the disappeared Rivière St Pierre in Montreal, the Garrison Creek in Toronto, the River Tyburn in London and the Bova Celato River in Brescia, Italy.
- Planet Ocean - screened 7th June
Yann Arthus-Bertrand and Michael Pitiot team up in the director's chair to bring us the documentary Planet Ocean.
Arthus-Bertrand has already brought us the documentary Home, while Planet Ocean marks the directorial debut of Pitiot.
Planet Ocean want to change the way the people look at our oceans and to encourage the thought that they need to be reserved, protected, and respected.
This collaborative film aims to explain some of the planet’s greatest natural mysteries and highlights how essential it is that mankind learns to live in harmony with our oceans.
The UK Green Film Festival runs 1-8th June.