Whether you’ve got a short attention span, can handle something a bit longer, just want to sit and learn something new, or want to get into a debate, the Live Futures 2020 Cinemas has a little bit of everything.
The Live Futures 2020 Festival will have two cinemas at the Festival, located in C and F blocks of the UNSW COFA Campus – one cinema dedicated to feature-length films with Q and A discussion and one cinema focusing just on short films.
Features-length films and Q&A
One cinema at Live Futures 2020 will include feature length films, in addition to discussions with scientists and experts who will take part in a Panel discussion about the films.
The films features include The Future Makers, Us Now and Food=Waste.
The Future Makers looks at man’s use of energy resources, and sees that sustainability is possible. The Future Makers tells the story of key Australians leading the way on the world stage in renewable energy. Some are designing a future based on models in nature. Others are creating a sustainable energy model for a 21st C economy. The film looks at oceanpower technology, solar thermal technology, geothermal technology, solar cell reseach, and thermochemical processes for storing solar energy – all developed by Australians.
The discussion for Future Makers will be facilitated by Maryella Hatfield, with the film and discussion taking place from 3 – 4.30pm. See the program for the updated list of panel guests.
Us Now is a film which is about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet. It questions ‘in a world in which information is like air, what happens to power’?
Us Now takes a look at how user-driven, user-generated and online participation could transform the way that countries are governed. It tells the stories of the online networks whose radical self-organising structures threaten to change the fabric of government forever.
The discussion for Us Now will feature Ivo Gormley from Banyak Films. The film and discussion on Us Now will take place from 1pm – 2.15pm. See the program for the updated list of panel guests.
Don Tapscott from Wikinomics describes Us Now as “an important and provocative film that people who believe in democracy need to watch”.
Waste = Food is an inspiring documentary on the Cradle to Cradle design concept of the chemist Michael Braungart and the architect William McDonough. Winner of the Silver Dragon at the Beijing International Science Film Festival 2006.
Waste=Food looks at the the fact that Man is the only creature that produces landfills. Natural resources are being depleted on a rapid scale while production and consumption are rising in nations like China and India. The waste production world wide is enormous and if we do not do anything we will soon have turned all our resources into one big messy landfill.
But there is hope.
The German chemist, Michael Braungart, and the American designer-architect William McDonough are fundamentally changing the way we produce and build. If waste would become food for the biosphere or the technosphere (all the technical products we make), production and consumption could become beneficial for the planet. A design and production concept that they call Cradle to Cradle. A concept that is seen as the next industrial revolution.
Waste = Food is held from 10.45 to 12.15pm in room F116.
Short Film Festival
One cinema will be dedicated to short films, including the always exciting SCINEMA.
SCINEMA is a science film, video and multimedia festival, which brings a selection of science drama, documentaries, and short subjects.
Since its launch in 2000, SCINEMA has played to tens of thousands of people across Australia. SCINEMA gives many filmmakers an opportunity to have their films, sometimes obscure but always terrific, be seen by an audience.
At Live Futures 2020 Festival, Scinema will be played on a loop, where audience members can come and experience the short films at their leisure.
The Short Film Cinema will be held in C Block, in room C101.
Scinema features several short films including:
400 Years of the Telescope
A lasting desire to last
Alienation
Between the folds
Big bang
Big bang in Tunguska
Black Holes
Black holes and Neutron stars
Blood Sample
Boomerang Today
Constellations
Crookhat and Camphoo
Darwin on the Evolution Trail
Discovery of Uranus
Dish Communication
Let’s talk: planets
Life on Mars
Merrepen – Dilly bag weaving
The Milky Way
Naturally Obsessed: the making of a scientist
O as Origin
Planet Earth
Reading the book of life
Robot World
Rodney’s Robot Revolution
Science fiction Science fact
Sound Waves
Space Transportation: ATV perspective
Space travel
The Antibiotic Adventure
The creation of the moon
The eclipse from then and now
The first dog in space
The first moon landing
The Good Heart Attack
The ingredients for life
The little street called the Milky Way
The man in the moon
The Moving Earth
The space adventure
Two planets, one future
Universal Surprise
Walking Dancing Belonging
What on earth is wrong with gravity?
Why is science important?
WTF (a bad acronym for) Woomera Test Facility
Head to the Scinema site for more detail about this year’s Scinema films.
