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Buy Now! + Q&A with Greenpeace Nottingham
Showing Sunday 23 February
On Sunday 23rd February, Greenpeace Nottingham will be in Mammoth - A Climate Action Cinema hosting a welcome event film screening of ‘Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy’.
This film screening and welcome event is an opportunity to meet and get to know your local Greenpeace organising team, find out what they do, and how you can get involved - because they want you on their team! It’s also a great opportunity to watch and discuss the fantastic new film ‘Buy Now! The Shopping Conspiracy’; directed by Emmy-winning writer and filmmaker Nic Stacey, which exposes the tricks companies like Amazon use to keep people buying, and the true costs of overconsumption on people and planet.
We are running this event because Greenpeace have been campaigning for an end to single use plastic and a significant reduction in plastic production overall. Greenpeace is calling for a strong Global Plastics Treaty that will keep the oil and gas used to produce plastic in the ground and stop big polluters with their relentless plastic production. A strong treaty will deliver a cleaner, safer planet for us and for future generations. This is just one of many important and exciting issues they campaign on.
Come join us to grow our movement for change!
Doors open 5:30pm, event starts at 6pm.
Rumble Fish
Showing Thursday 27 February
This is a screening by Jackie Treehorn Productions, an independent film club showcasing a large variety of films throughout Nottingham.
Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
Mammoth Mending Workshop
Taking Place Sunday 2 March
Kiss the Water
Showing Friday 7 March
In a small cottage on the northern coast of Scotland, Megan Boyd twirled tiny bits of feather and fur, silver and gold into fishing flies that were at once works of art, magical - and absolutely lethal. Wherever men and women cast their lines for the mighty Atlantic salmon, her name is whispered in mythic reverence, and stories about her surface and swirl like fairy tales.
Interviews, animations and images of the stunning Scottish countryside define Eric Steel’s lyrical tale of solitary celebrity and the joy of making your mark, even when it was the last thing you planned to do.
Pixote
Showing Thursday 13 March
This is a screening by Jackie Treehorn Productions, an independent film club showcasing a large variety of films throughout Nottingham.
The life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution, and drugs.
The Beaver Believers
Showing Saturday 15 March
The Beaver Believers is the urgent yet whimsical story of an unlikely cadre of activists who share a common vision: restoring the North American Beaver, that most industrious, ingenious, bucktoothed engineer, to the watersheds of the arid West. The Beaver Believers encourage us to embrace a new paradigm for managing our western lands, one that seeks to partner with the natural world rather than overpower it. As a keystone species, beaver enrich their ecosystems, creating the complexity and resiliency our watersheds need to absorb the impacts of climate change. Beavers can show us the way and even do much of the work for us, if only we can find the humility to trust in the restorative power of nature and our own ability to play a positive role within it.
Climate, Water, Life and Land – Resilient Communities in East Africa
Showing Friday 21 March
Director: Sally Bashford-Squires
A Documentary Film Exploring Community, Togetherness and Change in Rural Uganda. Eitai is a powerfully moving documentary that delves into the challenges faced by a rural community in North-Eastern Uganda. Filmed in Teso and co-produced with celebrated Masai filmmaker Sonyanga Weblan, Eitai—an Ateso word for "community togetherness"—is based on doctoral research conducted by Sally Bashford-Squires, a PhD graduate of Nottingham Trent University. The documentary explores critical global issues, including the interconnected challenges of climate change, poverty, alcoholism, and gender-based violence (GBV). It highlights how social enterprise projects not only provide economic opportunities but also create safe spaces for knowledge sharing, environmental action through tree planting, and community sensitisation via music, drama, and dance. Through vivid storytelling, Eitai underscores the importance of indigenous knowledge and communitarianism in addressing pressing global crises. It calls for stronger relationships among people, the land, and non-humans to mitigate further environmental degradation. The film also captures unique narratives on combating HIV and GBV, as told by participants through their lived experiences and cultural expressions.
Sally Bashford-Squires, formally an Assistant Head Teacher of a Nottinghamshire Infant School, now lectures in Public Health at The University of Greenwich. She recently completed her PhD in critical public health from Nottingham Trent University. Her doctorate explored how social enterprise projects impact on women's health in Teso, Uganda. Sally is also Chair and founder of a Nottingham Registered Charity called 'The Mustard Seed Project - Uganda' which supports the social enterprise projects featured in the documentary.
Sonyanga Weblan Sonyanga holds a Master's Degree in Media and Globalisation from Nottingham Trent University. He is part of the Maasai community from Kenya and star of the award- winning film 'Warriors' which follows the story of how Sonyanga and his peers used cricket as a leverage for ending female genital mutilation in his community. Sonyanga has continued to work to end FGM through sport and community sensitisation projects and his work has been celebrated by the United Nations. Sonyanga currently works as a freelance film maker in Kenya, capturing issues that impact on his communities.
More information on Sally's charity: www.mustardseedprojectuganda.com
Motherload + Q&A
Showing Tuesday 25 March
An award-winning documentary that uses the cargo bike as the vehicle for exploring parenthood in this digital age of climate change.
Motherload is a crowdsourced documentary about a new mom's quest to understand and promote the cargo bike movement in a gas-powered, digital and divided world. As Liz explores the burgeoning global movement to replace cars with purpose-built bikes, she learns about the bicycle's history and potential future as the ultimate "social revolutioniser." Her experiences as a cyclist, as a mother, and in discovering the cargo bike world, teach Liz that sustainability is not necessarily about compromise and sacrifice and there are few things more empowering, in an age of consumption, than the ability to create everything from what seems to be nothing. Motherload features unconventional production methods (including crowdsourcing from non-filmmakers), genre-bending storytelling (experimental/personal/doc), and themes of movement-building, activism and courage to "go against the grain."
This screening is organised by Women in Tandem, a women-led, Nottingham-based bike collective committed to breaking down barriers and creating spaces for women to thrive and opportunities to access cycling. Join us for the discussion after the film!
Little Otik
Showing Thursday 24 April
This is a screening by Porlock Press, an independent Nottingham-based film club showing a wide range of cult film, with a focus on animation of all kinds.
A young couple resort to extreme and unconventional measures to bring a ‘child’ into their lives, with bizarre and deadly consequences! Director Jan Švankmajer blends live action and stop-motion animation to great effect in this absurd and darkly comic story, inspired by the Czech fairy tale Otesánek.
"Rivals The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, and Eraserhead as a disturbing treatise on the fear of parenthood.” - The New York Times