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Where The Water Starts
Palace Electric Canberra
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host: Where the Water Starts
where: Monday 6th June, 7:00 pm Palace Electric Cinema
2 Phillip Law St Canberra
$21.00 AUD Admission + $2.00 booking fee = $23.00
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After seeing the destruction of the fragile alpine ecology of Australia’s Snowy Mountains first hand, Richard Swain with the support of his wife, Alison decides to speak out. Hard hoofed animals are trampling and endangering the viability of the headwaters of three iconic rivers.
Where The Water Starts reveals how the fragile alpine region, particularly Kosciuszko National Park, the largest in the Australian Alps is seen by a number of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people who were born or live, or who care deeply about it.
The direct impacts of global warming become a visceral and frightening reality for Richard and his wife, Alison. The massive bushfires of 2019-2020 surround their community and burn vast swathes of Kosciuszko National Park, highlighting the broader context of the climate crisis.
Where The Water Starts brings together respected Aboriginal community leaders as well as business people, a local farmer, a scientist, a former parks officer and a social historian.
The film explores our shared Indigenous and colonial histories and identities. It focuses on the themes of Caring for Country as a shared responsibility of all Australians; that the best of Aboriginal connection and the best of regenerative science can work together for a better future for the alpine environment and the planet.
While the connection between Indigenous people and the land is at the heart of the film, the message is also one of a partnership between Indigenous people, other community groups and scientists working together in order to conserve the Park and rehabilitate degraded areas.
Wendy Bacon, journalist, activist October 2021
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After the film, there will be a special Q&A featuring the below speakers.
The MC for the evening is Helen Oakey – Executive Director, Consevation Council ACT
Helen has more than 15 years experience campaigning on environment issues both at a national and local level. She led Greenpeace’s advocacy and policy team in Australia, and worked on international issues including protecting forests and marine environments. She was a senior policy advisor in the ACT Legislative Assembly, where she gained a broad understanding of key environment and sustainability issues facing our local region.
Helen want to see action on climate change and a more sustainable Canberra. She is passionate about engaging with the community, who are powerful advocates for the changes we need in government and business to build a genuinely sustainable and equitable society.
Richard Swain – Indigenous Ambassador, Invasive Species Council
Richard has worked for 25 years as an Indigenous guide within Kosciuszko National Park. Having spent his life in the Snowy Mountains he has seen first-hand the huge impact feral animals are having on the park and the threatened species that rely on Kosciuszko for survival. He is passionate about educating the public on the true history of landscape changes and degradation over the past 230 years.
Mandy King & Fabio Cavadini – Director & Producer
Mandy King is an Australian filmmaker who has been producing documentaries since the late 1980’s. She works closely with her partner, Co-Producer and Cinematographer Fabio Cavadini as the partnership Frontyard Films. Their interests include the environment, Indigenous rights and independence struggles, through to the arts and labour history. They have produced a number of documentaries around stories based in the Pacific – in Timor Leste, Papua New Guinea and Bougainville. Titles include Time To Draw The Line about the dispute over the shared maritime boundary with Timor Leste, Colour Change about the campaign by local landowners for justice from BHP’s polluting Ok Tedi mine, and An Evergreen Island, about the incredible story of ingenuity by the people of Bougainville who closed down the Panguna mine and overcame a 10 year blockade. WHERE THE WATER STARTS is their most recent documentary and Fabio is currently in post production on Maxism.
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