Session 1: 10.30am – 1pm
All films are unclassified unless stated below. We believe the films range from G to M and recommend all children under the age of 15 be accompanied by a parent or guardian. For any concerns about the content of the films please email entertainment@veganfestival.info.
Vegan On A Jet Plane: Bali
Writer: Ally Teixeira
Director: Jacob Teixeira
Country: United States
Length: 49min 34sec
Nutritionist and world traveler Ally Teixeira searches for the best vegan foods this world has to offer. Her journey starts in Bali, Indonesia where she’ll take you on an island tour of a lifetime.
Vegan Filmmakers
Unplastic Girl
Director: Michelle Pacheco
Country: Ecuador
Length: 10min 43sec
Amanda Lindner, a vegan and environmentalist, lives in New York City, the kingdom of consumerism but also the birthplace of revolutionary ideas. She advocates the idea that having a “zero waste” lifestyle isn’t as hard as it sounds. It’s just a matter of access and will.
Vegan Director
Director: Taliya Finkel
Country: Israel
Length: 8min
The relationships between ‘imperfect’ farm animals to special volunteers, some with their own ‘imperfections’
Vegan Director
Conversations With Kais
Director: Elle Baldock
Country: Australia (Adelaide)
Length: 5min 47sec
A conversation with Kais, the owner of Vspot; Adelaide’s first vegan pizza bar. Kais talks about his journey to finding veganism through health issues and hardship.
Vegan Director
Emilio
Writer: Ismael Caneppele
Director: Herbert Bianchi
Producer: Stephanie Lourenço
Country: Brazil
Length: 10min 29sec
Who is Emilio? In a self-centered world, a girl spends her days looking for magazines to someone who might not even know she exists. In the frantic city of São Paulo it’s still possible to find people that care about those who seem to be invisible to the eyes.
Vegan Producer & Actresses
Writer: Immi Paterson & Guy Pigden
Director: Guy Pigden
Producer: Harley Neville & Immi Paterson
Country: New Zealand
Length: 1hr 57sec
Immi the Vegan dreams of finding a good vegan man and gaining the confidence to perform her songs in front of a live audience. But lately her dates have mistaken her for a vegetarian or tried to send her photos of their meat and two veg.
Vegan Writer
Session 2: 2pm – 4.30pm
All films are unclassified unless stated below. We believe the films range from G to M and recommend all children under the age of 15 be accompanied by a parent or guardian. For any concerns about the content of the films please email entertainment@veganfestival.info.
Director: Indy Davies
Producer: Bad Publicity
Country: Australia
Length: 3min 17sec
The inner-monologue of a recently rescued racing Greyhound, named Georgie.
Vegan Director & Voice Actor
Kimchi Road
Director: Nari Kye
Producer: Ellen Kim, Lana Tkachenko, Janice Gabriel, and Eric Rhee
Country: Undisclosed
Length: 21min 41sec
Follow along with chef and restaurateur Judy Joo as she explores the origin, evolution and traditions of making kimchi that have been passed down for generations. Kimchi is at the very heart of Korean culture. Just a few simple ingredients – including the sun, the moon and the sky – have made Kimchi a staple in Korean cuisine for over 1,400 years.
Director: Rhys Abbott
Country: Australia (Adelaide)
Length: 17min 20sec
This short documentary explores Danjugan Island in the Philippines before introducing you to the concept of impacts from afar, and how physical pollution and climate change will and has impacted the island.
Vegan Filmmaker
Writer: Ajuni
Producer: Ajuni
Director: Romel Dias
Country: India
Length: 2min 45sec
The music video explores the concept of Utopia, or lack thereof, through the journey of the protagonist, who is made to look loosely like Ajuni, the singer-songwriter of the song.
Vegan Singer/Song Writer
Legacy
Director: Barry Mitchell
Country: Australia (Adelaide)
Length: 6min 45sec
Children in a cave listen as a woman, who might be their aunty, tells the story of how their ancestors destroyed the world.
Director: Giacomo Giorgi
Producer: Greg Bennick, Giacomo Giorgi, Rafaella Tolicetti
Country: Italy
Length: 1hr 30min
On The Wild Side is a documentary about the movements against hunting and poaching all over the world, the ethics that push individuals to refuse this form of unnecessary violence, and a reflection on our society in the crucial times of climate changes and animal, earth and human exploitation.
Vegan Filmmakers
Session 3: 6pm – 8.30pm
All films are unclassified unless stated below. We believe the films range from G to M and recommend all children under the age of 15 be accompanied by a parent or guardian. For any concerns about the content of the films please email entertainment@veganfestival.info.
Writer: Edoardo Nervi, Lea Borniotto, Vera Borniotto
Director:Edoardo Nervi, Lea Borniotto, Vera Borniotto
Producer: Alienside Studio
Country: Italy
Length: 9min 13sec
A short movie realized with the support of Animal Equality. The story is a metaphor against the exploitation of animals.
Vegan Filmmakers
Director: Brian Yulo Ng
Country: Japan
Length: 4min 44sec
Ryori (Cuisine in Japanese) is a Stop Motion Animated Film that depicts an Ojizo San Statue (guardian of the wayside) coming from within the forest to have a Shojin Ryori meal. Shojin Ryori is the traditional dining style of Buddhist Monks in Japan, the cuisine is made without meat, fish or other animal products. The film animates the process of cooking with elements of change in nature. So as to highlight the interconnectedness between cuisine and the environment. The components of a Shojin Ryori meal are based on the idea of balance. The rule of five is created between five colors and flavors in a meal; green, yellow, red, black and white as well as sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami. This balance in color and flavor is believed to provide nutritional balance while also bringing the body into balance with the seasons.
Vegan
Director: Ryan Prestipino
Producer: Bethany Stoke
Country: Australia
Length: 3min 46sec
Two lost hipsters pay the ultimate price when one of them receives a fatal bite from a brown snake.
Director: Christopher Shoebridge
Producer: Jo-Anne McArthur and Kelly Guerin
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 6min 6sec
‘INVISIBLE’, in collaboration with We Animals Media and the Unbound Project, is a short film exploring a dangerous and secret world that has never before been documented. Following undercover investigators ‘Sarah’ and ‘Emily’ (their names have been changed to protect their identities) on an investigation at a pig farm in Europe, ‘INVISIBLE’ grants the viewer unprecedented access to a world that is deliberately and painstakingly covert.
Vegan Filmmakers
A Herd
Director: Minseok Kim
Country: United States
Length: 3min 21sec
Meat Lover, who loves meat, becomes a vegetarian.
Vegan Director
Director: Aron Nor
Art Director: Mina Mimosa
Writer: M. Martelli & Aron Nor
Country: Romania
Length: 23min 31sec
The search for justice is not an individual endeavor, it is a collective practice of world-making. Haunted by past extinctions, a human being starts wondering what climate justice might look like, what its faces may be, when other beings are involved in the questioning. A cat, and many other non-human animals become present and part of the process, sharing their experiences, and moving together towards multispecies justice. The questions the film poses are as real as you (or me) are.
Vegan Filmmakers
Wild Things (M)
Director: Sally Ingleton
Country: Australia
Length: 1hr 30min
WILD THINGS is a feature length documentary that follows a new generation of environmental activists that are mobilising against forces more powerful than themselves and saying, enough. Armed only with mobile phones, this growing army of eco warriors will do whatever it takes to save their futures from the ravages of climate change. From chaining themselves to coal trains, sitting high in the canopy of threatened rainforest for days on end or locking onto bulldozers, their non-violent tactics are designed to generate mass action with one finger tap. Messages go viral within seconds. It’s a far cry from the heady days of the Franklin River and Anti Uranium Mining Blockades when street marches were the only way to be heard.
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