A new documentary featuring Sea Shepherd is seeing unpredicted success and recently scored the position of top 10 most-watched shows on Netflix in Australia and other regions. Titled ‘Seaspiracy’, the documentary explores the plight of the ocean and claims to ‘uncover alarming global corruption’. The film is sparking heated debate across the globe, and the...
In case you missed it, there’s an environmental documentary on Netflix that’s making waves right now. This film is directed by Ali Tabrizi and it explores how the multi-billion-dollar commercial fishing industry – and its role in the problem of overfishing – is destroying marine life at a rapid rate. Seaspiracy doesn’t hold back on...
Do you find yourself with a little more free time now thanks to lockdown-prompted alternative work arrangements? Are you tired of watching silly shows on TV and looking for a meaningful way to pass the time? Since Earth Day is fast approaching and in the hopes of awakening the eco-warrior in you, we’ve prepared just...
Netflix has compiled a great list of horror flicks in time for Halloween – from classic to indie to new chiller thrillers for the occasion, but if you really want to feel scared, watching a series of environmental documentary films showing us how the natural world is fading can also do the trick. The way...
Last month Netflix released a 90-minute documentary on the darker side of our continual dependence on social media titled The Social Dilemma. Jeff Orlowski’s documentary focuses solely on the dangerous human impacts of social media, how addicted many have become to it and how social media companies design their apps to adversely affect our lives....
Top researchers worldwide have the hard science to answer the question ‘Are cosmetics and personal care products making us sick?’ When headlines about a U.S. class action lawsuit against the $347b pharmaceutical behemoth Johnson & Johnson linking talc in baby powder to ovarian cancer made national news, Toronto-based writer, director and producer Phyllis Ellis knew...
By Connie Allen, Films for the Earth The power of film and documentary is undeniable. After so long, text and endless statistics and news articles fall on deaf ears as we become numb to their content. But watch a film that connects to your inner humanity through beautiful imagery, engaging interviews, real people and their...
Fashion week isn’t often considered a venue for sustainable or ethical fashion, so when we feed our sense of style from the usual Instagram style influencers (who quite frankly could care less about how their clothes are made and who made them) we usually get the same superficial fashion posts and updates from the catwalks...
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Authors:Emily Spiers, Lecturer in Creative Futures, Lancaster University. It is no secret that women are still underrepresented in cinema – whether they work behind or in front of the camera. They are also, as the Independent’s alternative all-female list of nominees for the 2019 Academy...
For years people have asked me for videos about my green lifestyle and for years I’d been trying to deliver this type of content. But me communicating through film is like that metaphorical fish out of water, it’s just not my natural environment. If you flick through our YouTube channel, you’ll see my haphazard approach...
Eco Warrior Princess is considered one of the leading eco fashion and sustainable lifestyle sites in the world. I had never much thought about its ‘authority’ in the green space until strangers started to ask for advice and recommendations, readers started to share our articles on social media, and magazines, blogs and online publications started...
In the last 6 months I’ve received several requests from followers wanting me to create more of my YouTube videos. Here’s the latest Twitter request I received from the lovely girls at Oh So Ethical: Other followers have been more specific, emailing me to request I do more video tours of my home, the gardens and farm surrounds....