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1080 Poison Film Screens at International Film Festival


1080 Poison Film Screens at Culture Unplugged International Film Festival

A New Zealand documentary has been selected to play at the international film festival Culture Unplugged. The festival shares and plays films from USA, Indonesia, India, and New Zealand.

The documentary - New Zealand Streams - The Fight to keep them 1080 Poison-free (revised 2015) - was filmed on the West Coast of the South Island, and presents dairy and beef farmers voicing their concerns over the poison baits dropped directly into the streams that feed their farms, and the potential impact the poison drops have on their industries. Mayor Maureen Pugh (now an MP for the National Government) tells how the communities can taste the green dusts "and they claim it has an effect on them immediately".

Locals were arrested while protesting the aerial poison drop, which covered over 90,000 hectares, and which are now a regular occurrence across New Zealand's forests and streams. The film and will play for 24 hours from Wednesday, June 22, 12:00 PMThursday, June 23, 11:59 AM (NZST), at its first screening.

The documentary can be viewed by clicking on this link http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/53644/New-Zealand-Streams---The-Fight-to-keep-them-1080-Poison-free--revised-2015- or by visiting http://www.cultureunplugged.com/ and searching New Zealand Streams - The Fight to keep them 1080 Poison-free (revised 2015)

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