Films
MAKE POVERTY HISTORY PRESENTS
REEL CHANGE
Short films on the impact of climate change
SILENT SNOW
This selection of shorts includes:
Keep Your Ears On
Sisters on the Planet
Parking
Early Bird
My Shout
An Uncertain Future
A Castle in the Sand
Silent Snow
The Little Things
I Don't Believe in Global Warming
SILENT SNOW
2007 Netherlands, Inuit, 15 mins
Director/Writer: Jan Van Den Berg
Producer: Jan Van Den Berg, Ole Jorgen Hammeken
Genre: Documentary
Film Website: http://www.silentsnow.org
Related Links: http://www.oxfam.org.au/campaigns/climate-change/, http://www.makepovertyhistory.com.au/Home.aspx
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2007, Official Selection 2007
Slow Food on Film Festival Bologna - Best Short Film 2008.
Synopsis
A silent assassin is destroying the Inuit community in Greenland. Through currents in the ocean, pesticides like DDT are carried northbound into Inuit land, poisoning humans and animals.
With spectacular cinematography of their icy, fairytale homeland, Silent Snow follows two young girls in their daily lives as they grapple with the knowledge that life as they know it is slowly disappearing.
Trailer for Reel Change short film collection.
