Movies that Matter will be screening the following inspiring documentary that looks at how citizens of New Zealand are doing their part to preserve our planet and plan to live a more sustainable future. There will be Friday night plant-based refreshments provided by the M.R.V.E.G team and kids are welcome to bring a beanbag.

Synopsis

Sometimes it can feel like the environmental, economic and social issues the world is currently facing are too big, too overwhelming, to be dealt with by individuals. Climate change, resource limits, economic downturn, social disconnection. Surely these issues can only be properly managed by our governments?

Living the Change explores solutions to the global crises we face today – solutions any one of us can be part of – through the inspiring stories of people pioneering change in their own lives and in their communities in order to live in a sustainable and regenerative way.

Directors Jordan Osmond and Antoinette Wilson have brought together stories from their travels, along with interviews with experts able to explain how we come to be where we are today. From forest gardens to composting toilets, community supported agriculture to timebanking, Living the Change offers ways we can rethink our approach to how we live.

Each and every one of us has the power to create change. Living the Change sets out to inspire us to do just that. There are so many exciting and important ideas and initiatives out there, so much hope and inspiration. We want to generate discussion as widely and deeply as possible about how each of us views the future and our part in it.

“You’ve probably had those moments of despair where you think it’s just hopeless and the world is always going to be this way and anything we do is not enough, but there’s also – and I would say that this is maybe more of a heart knowing – that understands that a more beautiful world is possible.”
– Charles Eisenstein in Living the Change