Darwin Program 2016

The Transitions Film Festival returns to Darwin (24th – 29th June), partnering with Environment Centre NT as regional host in 2016.

This year’s film selection has been hand picked to tempt the tropical audience. Our program is packed with 8 must-see films spanning four venues and taking advantage of some of our most beautiful outdoor sunset screening locations, including the Deckchair Cinema!

The festival will not only be a feast of films for the senses, but will also have on offer some of the great locally sourced produce, talented musicians, and guest speakers reconnecting the Top End with our very own grassroots.

Kicking off the start of the school holidays in the Territory, the festival offers engaging events for all the family, including the FREE opening night event that will inspire, enthuse, and entertain our audience.

Polyfaces

Deckchair Cinema

Wednesday, June 29 @ 6:00 pm

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An Australian made film that paints a portrait of Time Magazine’s ‘most innovative farmer in the world’ and showcases the regenerative farming practices that have the power to transform the global food system for the better.

Poverty, Inc.

Deckchair Cinema

Tuesday, June 28 @ 6:00 pm

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Drawing from over 200 interviews, filmed in 20 countries, Poverty, Inc. unearths the uncomfortable challenges of well intended but uninformed giving and suggests a new way of thinking to overcome global, systemic challenges for the betterment of all.

Racing Extinction

Nightcliff foreshore (New Venue)

Monday, June 27 @ 6:00 pm

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OUTDOOR SCREENING Utilizing state-of-the-art equipment, Louie Psihoyos (The Cove) assembles a team of artists and activists intent on showing the world never-before-seen images that expose issues of endangered species and mass extinction. This beautiful and deeply touching film stimulates all those who see it to change.

Catching The Sun

Lakeside Community Garden

Sunday, June 26 @ 5:00 pm

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OUTDOOR SCREENING Catching the Sun is a celebration of the green energy revolution and the power that new technologies, innovations and businesses have to solve the world’s most pressing environmental and social problems.

Breath of Life

Museum and Art Gallery NT

Saturday, June 25 @ 7:00 pm

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This stunning documentary captures the insights of world-famous evolutionary scientists, everyday farmers and indigenous wisdom keepers into why we have not reacted with the energy and urgency required by the existential challenges we face.

Black Hole

Museum and Art Gallery NT

Saturday, June 25 @ 5:00 pm

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Set against the backdrop of the mining industry’s ever-increasing thirst for fossil fuels, Black Hole is an intense and riveting exposé, revealing unseen footage of the Maules Creek coal mine blockade, police misconduct, corporate spies and the destruction of sacred Indigenous burial sites.

Anthropocene

Museum and Art Gallery NT

Friday, June 24 @ 7:00 pm

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An international community of scientists give us their take on the anthropocene, showing us today’s ecological and climatic changes from a new and deeply thought-provoking perspective.

The Yes Men Are Revolting

Museum and Art Gallery NT

Friday, June 24 @ 5:00 pm

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The Yes Men Are Revolting paints an intimate portrait of the past five years of activist-pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, the infamous culture-jamming duo known for courageously fooling big government and mega-corporations with their precision impersonations – or “identity corrections” – and hilarious shenanigans.