'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - a ‘hands-on’ documentary produced by the Localising Food Project

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'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - A ‘hands-On’ Documentary Produced By The Localising Food Project

Project 2016-03-01 02:19:17 +1300


In 2013, a team of New Zealand permaculture educators hit the road for an ambitious teaching and filming tour: the Localising Food Project. They captured the stories of 250 different local food initiatives on video. Now, they’re distilling a series of documentaries aimed at disseminating successful local models, and inspiring a more self-sufficient, food-resilient nation.  The four part series 'Growing Schools' has just been released and is already attracting international interest.

With the rapidly increasing global ownership and scientific tampering with the integrity of seeds, as well as the legislative implications of NZ’s Food Bill and the looming TPPA, 'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' has been prioritised as the next documentary to be worked on. 

This educational documentary will show, step by step, how to select, process, store, distribute and propagate seeds – so that each of us can play our part in ensuring the survival of our seeds, now and for our children’s children. 

Your support will help us towards covering the costs of producing this S.O.S. documentary. Money raised beyond this target will assist with promotion and distribution. We are fortunate to have received and continue to receive a tremendous amount of volunteer time and are fundraising only for the balance needed to fund the editing process.  

 

 

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation over 90% of our vegetable varieties have been lost over the last 100 years. With 95% of the seeds available for purchase in this country being imported from overseas, the diversity and availability of our daily food is endangered. So now our hope lies in community-scale seed saving systems to propogate and protect seed for future generations.  

The Localising Food Project has captured dynamic video footage of inspirational models of seed swaps, seed exchanges, seed libraries, seed banks, and family seed businesses, in order to teach you how to easily replicate these processes in your community.

This educational documentary will show, step by step, how to select, process, store, distribute and propagate seeds – so that each of us can play our part in ensuring the survival of our seeds, now and for our children’s children. 

Your support will help us towards covering the costs of producing this S.O.S. documentary. Money raised beyond this target will assist with promotion and distribution. 

About The Localising Food Project

The Localising Food Project is an initiative of the Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa, a New Zealand registered charitable trust, whose objectives include Empowering Communities through Local Food Resilience. All work done to date has been achieved by the generosity of private donations and many thousands of voluntary hours of our dedicated team.

Visit our website localisingfood.com to find out more about the project, view some of our short film stories and download our recently completed 'Growing Schools' documentary.

Vsit our facebook page, sign up for our newsletter to stay in touch with our flourishing localising food community. Also please 'Like' and 'Share' our work and this campaign through your social media - many thanks!

 

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Update from the LFP Team

06/06/2016 at 12:43 PM


Greetings to you our supportive pledgers


This is a little update about the progress of our documentary and the delivery of your rewards…
Robina has been working full-on with film editor Tiago Stamato Velasco (Brazilian filmmaker residing in NZ) on ‘SOS: Save Our Seeds’ before and since the completion of the campaign, and also Tiago has been filming four more action interviews to extend its cultural diversity and geographical representation. 

We have several more weeks to go of film editing, sound editing (by Matt Aickin of Kerikeri) and the creation of original music for the documentary. 
The main documentary will be approx 1 hour 20 minutes, and the sequel called ‘Hands-on Seed Saving’ will be around 15 minutes. 
This will be a You-Tube mini-doco on the practicals of home seed saving, where views learn from a range of SOS presenters guiding them step by step how to select, process, store and share seed. 
Robina will be editing this with Reece Baker (Green Lemon Pictures Ltd) from Kapiti Coast.
 
We anticipate both docos to be ready for your download by the end of June, which is when we plan to get the rest of your rewards to you also. 

For those of you who also pledged to ‘Growing Schools’, our documentary launched at the end of last year, you may be interested to know that there will be an article about it in the next issue of OrganicNZ, a magazine well worth subscribing to. 
This will be our third article about the work of Localising Food Project in that magazine, with more to come. 
As soon as your rewards are dispatched, we will be fundraising for our next doco (already partly completed), ‘Perennial Paradise’, previously titled ‘Fruit & Nuts Unlimited’, through an international crowd funding platform. 
We will inform you when this is happening. 

Wishing you a cosy Winter

Robina McCurdy and the Localising Food Team

Robina McCurdy

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    Pledgers 203

    Debs Martin
    25/03/2016 at 9:33pm

    "Robina is a lover of the earth - and saving seeds is one of the most political acts you can aspire to. Get radical - support this doco. "

    Alison McLeish
    25/03/2016 at 9:14pm

    "Great to see your new film project, wishing you all the best to spread the word an the seeds!"

    Katerina Seligman
    25/03/2016 at 9:04pm

    "This campaign is definitely worth supporting. Good competent committed people over many years. A great project. "

    Anonymous pledger
    25/03/2016 at 8:12pm

    "Seeds are the holy grail for corporates who seek to exploit them. Thank you for working so hard to raise awareness and understanding."

    James Tuckey
    22/03/2016 at 8:42am
    Paul Murray
    21/03/2016 at 6:42pm

    "Fantastic to see this project so close to completion. Please accept my small donation and good luck!"

    James Samuel
    20/03/2016 at 9:24am

    "I appreciate the work that's been done to bring these stories forward - thanks team!"

    debby verdonk
    18/03/2016 at 9:54am
    SIMONE ALLEMANN
    14/03/2016 at 4:32pm

    "SHARING KNOWLEDGE FOR LOVE OF MY SON, OCEAN-MAKANA"

    Geraldine
    14/03/2016 at 2:29pm

    "A key battle for our independance, freedom and survival"

    Peta and Donald Joyce
    14/03/2016 at 2:21pm
    Anonymous pledger
    14/03/2016 at 9:10am
    Yana Hoos
    14/03/2016 at 6:16am

    "Beautiful! Loving your documentaries. Thank you from my heart."

    Jill Greathead
    14/03/2016 at 5:52am

    "Thank you for initiating such a great project"

    Deva
    14/03/2016 at 12:32am
    Bruce Dyer
    13/03/2016 at 9:02pm
    Anonymous pledger
    13/03/2016 at 10:25am
    Liz Kerslake
    13/03/2016 at 9:47am

    "Keep up the great work, arohanui"

    Doris Zuur
    12/03/2016 at 10:38pm
    Frank Swinney
    12/03/2016 at 3:23pm
    Anthony Baynes
    12/03/2016 at 2:38pm

    "Blessings and gratitude for your wonderful work!"

    Sue Rine
    11/03/2016 at 12:12pm

    "Great to have a New Zealand based initiative like this."

    Rob Leenheer
    09/03/2016 at 1:41am

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    Followers of 'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - a ‘hands-on’ documentary produced by the Localising Food Project

    'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - A ‘hands-On’ Documentary Produced By The Localising Food Project

    Project 2016-03-01 02:19:17 +1300


    In 2013, a team of New Zealand permaculture educators hit the road for an ambitious teaching and filming tour: the Localising Food Project. They captured the stories of 250 different local food initiatives on video. Now, they’re distilling a series of documentaries aimed at disseminating successful local models, and inspiring a more self-sufficient, food-resilient nation.  The four part series 'Growing Schools' has just been released and is already attracting international interest.

    With the rapidly increasing global ownership and scientific tampering with the integrity of seeds, as well as the legislative implications of NZ’s Food Bill and the looming TPPA, 'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' has been prioritised as the next documentary to be worked on. 

    This educational documentary will show, step by step, how to select, process, store, distribute and propagate seeds – so that each of us can play our part in ensuring the survival of our seeds, now and for our children’s children. 

    Your support will help us towards covering the costs of producing this S.O.S. documentary. Money raised beyond this target will assist with promotion and distribution. We are fortunate to have received and continue to receive a tremendous amount of volunteer time and are fundraising only for the balance needed to fund the editing process.  

     

     

    According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation over 90% of our vegetable varieties have been lost over the last 100 years. With 95% of the seeds available for purchase in this country being imported from overseas, the diversity and availability of our daily food is endangered. So now our hope lies in community-scale seed saving systems to propogate and protect seed for future generations.  

    The Localising Food Project has captured dynamic video footage of inspirational models of seed swaps, seed exchanges, seed libraries, seed banks, and family seed businesses, in order to teach you how to easily replicate these processes in your community.

    This educational documentary will show, step by step, how to select, process, store, distribute and propagate seeds – so that each of us can play our part in ensuring the survival of our seeds, now and for our children’s children. 

    Your support will help us towards covering the costs of producing this S.O.S. documentary. Money raised beyond this target will assist with promotion and distribution. 

    About The Localising Food Project

    The Localising Food Project is an initiative of the Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa, a New Zealand registered charitable trust, whose objectives include Empowering Communities through Local Food Resilience. All work done to date has been achieved by the generosity of private donations and many thousands of voluntary hours of our dedicated team.

    Visit our website localisingfood.com to find out more about the project, view some of our short film stories and download our recently completed 'Growing Schools' documentary.

    Vsit our facebook page, sign up for our newsletter to stay in touch with our flourishing localising food community. Also please 'Like' and 'Share' our work and this campaign through your social media - many thanks!

     

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    You need to pledge to see this update.

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    Update from the LFP Team

    06/06/2016 at 12:43 PM


    Greetings to you our supportive pledgers


    This is a little update about the progress of our documentary and the delivery of your rewards…
    Robina has been working full-on with film editor Tiago Stamato Velasco (Brazilian filmmaker residing in NZ) on ‘SOS: Save Our Seeds’ before and since the completion of the campaign, and also Tiago has been filming four more action interviews to extend its cultural diversity and geographical representation. 

    We have several more weeks to go of film editing, sound editing (by Matt Aickin of Kerikeri) and the creation of original music for the documentary. 
    The main documentary will be approx 1 hour 20 minutes, and the sequel called ‘Hands-on Seed Saving’ will be around 15 minutes. 
    This will be a You-Tube mini-doco on the practicals of home seed saving, where views learn from a range of SOS presenters guiding them step by step how to select, process, store and share seed. 
    Robina will be editing this with Reece Baker (Green Lemon Pictures Ltd) from Kapiti Coast.
     
    We anticipate both docos to be ready for your download by the end of June, which is when we plan to get the rest of your rewards to you also. 

    For those of you who also pledged to ‘Growing Schools’, our documentary launched at the end of last year, you may be interested to know that there will be an article about it in the next issue of OrganicNZ, a magazine well worth subscribing to. 
    This will be our third article about the work of Localising Food Project in that magazine, with more to come. 
    As soon as your rewards are dispatched, we will be fundraising for our next doco (already partly completed), ‘Perennial Paradise’, previously titled ‘Fruit & Nuts Unlimited’, through an international crowd funding platform. 
    We will inform you when this is happening. 

    Wishing you a cosy Winter

    Robina McCurdy and the Localising Food Team

    Robina McCurdy

    You need to pledge to see this update.

      Debs Martin
      25/03/2016 at 9:33pm

      "Robina is a lover of the earth - and saving seeds is one of the most political acts you can aspire to. Get radical - support this doco. "

      Alison McLeish
      25/03/2016 at 9:14pm

      "Great to see your new film project, wishing you all the best to spread the word an the seeds!"

      Katerina Seligman
      25/03/2016 at 9:04pm

      "This campaign is definitely worth supporting. Good competent committed people over many years. A great project. "

      Anonymous pledger
      25/03/2016 at 8:12pm

      "Seeds are the holy grail for corporates who seek to exploit them. Thank you for working so hard to raise awareness and understanding."

      James Tuckey
      22/03/2016 at 8:42am
      Paul Murray
      21/03/2016 at 6:42pm

      "Fantastic to see this project so close to completion. Please accept my small donation and good luck!"

      James Samuel
      20/03/2016 at 9:24am

      "I appreciate the work that's been done to bring these stories forward - thanks team!"

      debby verdonk
      18/03/2016 at 9:54am
      SIMONE ALLEMANN
      14/03/2016 at 4:32pm

      "SHARING KNOWLEDGE FOR LOVE OF MY SON, OCEAN-MAKANA"

      Geraldine
      14/03/2016 at 2:29pm

      "A key battle for our independance, freedom and survival"

      Peta and Donald Joyce
      14/03/2016 at 2:21pm
      Anonymous pledger
      14/03/2016 at 9:10am
      Yana Hoos
      14/03/2016 at 6:16am

      "Beautiful! Loving your documentaries. Thank you from my heart."

      Jill Greathead
      14/03/2016 at 5:52am

      "Thank you for initiating such a great project"

      Deva
      14/03/2016 at 12:32am
      Bruce Dyer
      13/03/2016 at 9:02pm
      Anonymous pledger
      13/03/2016 at 10:25am
      Liz Kerslake
      13/03/2016 at 9:47am

      "Keep up the great work, arohanui"

      Doris Zuur
      12/03/2016 at 10:38pm
      Frank Swinney
      12/03/2016 at 3:23pm
      Anthony Baynes
      12/03/2016 at 2:38pm

      "Blessings and gratitude for your wonderful work!"

      Sue Rine
      11/03/2016 at 12:12pm

      "Great to have a New Zealand based initiative like this."

      Rob Leenheer
      09/03/2016 at 1:41am

      Followers of 'S.O.S: Save Our Seeds' - a ‘hands-on’ documentary produced by the Localising Food Project

      This campaign was successful and got its funding on 26/04/2016 at 10:00 PM.