Archive for the ‘Ecologist Film Unit’ Category

Undercover film highlights the shocking cost of US super-dairies

With planning permission for Britain’s biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted later this month, the Ecologist Film Unit travelled to California to examine intensive milk production US-style and found factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business…
‘YOU BETTER get out of here or your gonna get your ass kicked [...]

EFU climate film up for award

EFU film Melting Point – the new frontline in eco-activism has been invited for nomination in the ‘Reel Change’ award strand of the Human Rights Arts & Film Festival taking place in April and May 2010. The strand is seeking films under 15 minutes which address the human impacts of climate change. Melting Point sparked [...]

Selling the seas – new film documents how coastal privatisation threatens Indonesian communities

Working in conjunction with the Forest Peoples Programme and KIARA in Jakarta, Ecostorm has carried out an investigation in Sumatra that lifts the lid on plans to privatise the entire length of Indonesia’s 80,000km coastline. If the coastal privatization law known as HP-3 is ratified, vast coastal concessions will be granted to industrial prawn farms, [...]

Killing Fields – how Paraguay’s soya trade leads to poisoning and violence

Much of the cheap meat and dairy produce sold in supermarkets across Europe is arriving as a result of serious human rights abuses and environmental damage in one of Latin America’s most impoverished countries, a powerful new investigation produced by the Ecologist Film Unit – the production company jointly owned by Ecostorm and The Ecologist [...]

Documentary exposes link between intensive pig industry and new type of MRSA

An Ecostorm-produced documentary, commissioned by the Soil Association and Compassion in World Farming, exposes the rise of a new strain of MRSA in pigs, and its link to the overuse of antibiotics on intensive farms.
‘Sick as a pig’ was filmed in the Netherlands, one of the countries most seriously affected by this farm-animal MRSA. [...]

Fishy Business: uncovering the truth behind your cheap Christmas salmon

In its latest film the Ecologist Film Unit (EFU), a collaboration between Ecostorm and the Ecologist magazine, travels to Peru to investigate a host of unreported environmental and social costs – including pollution and health problems, overfishing, and impacts on ecosystems and wildlife – arising from the production of fishmeal and fish oil, principal ingredients [...]

Bangladesh leather investigation – film opens Ethical Fashion Show in Paris

Hell for Leather – the debut film of the Ecologist Film Unit, which investigated Bangladesh’s leather trade, has been screened at the International Ethical Fashion Show in Paris.

The film, which documented the environmental and human rights abuses connected with leather production in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka, was screened prominently at the pioneering fashion show, one of [...]

A solution to the food crisis? How one chicken might just change the world…

Set against a backdrop of rising global food prices, and the spread of factory farming in countries such as India, The Ecologist Film Unit – a major collaboration between Ecostorm and The Ecologist magazine – this month releases a film which tells the story of a food revolution in Southern India.
View the film at The [...]

Melting Point: how eco-activists are being targeted with spies, strong arm tactics and news manipulation.

As part of our unique collaboration with The Ecologist, Ecostorm is pleased to announce publication of a new special report and accompanying film “Melting Point: the new frontline in eco-activism” in the July / August edition of the magazine.
Ahead of next month’s ‘Climate Camp’ at Kingsnorth, Kent – where a coalition of campaigners have pledged [...]