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Women on the Hunt

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Women are meant to create life, not to destroy it. But in Grischun, Switzerland, the number of women hunters has increased over the past few years. "Hunting in the mountains requires physical strength. It should be left to men", explains Peider Ratti. Only 1% of the 7,000 licensed hunters in Grischun are women. Liselu Frey, aka 'Hunter Grandmother', is the oldest huntress. "I am proud when I bring an animal home. To me, it's an intense feeling", explains one huntress. Four very different women give an impressive account of what hunting brings to their lives.

30:14

Tsunami – The Day The Wave Came
This is a comprehensive re-telling of how events unfolded around the Indian Ocean in December 2004. Ross Coulthart travelled soon after that fateful day to see the devastation for himself and to talk to those that witnessed it. Why did it happen, why was there no warning? Weaving original footage with eyewitness accounts, he has created a definitive documentary of the event.

03:12

Ms. Salmon (Valerie Shields)
"Grey Gardens" meets "The Cove"… Kooky British marine philanthropist, whose real name is Melanie Salmon, makes sea conservation more glamorous with London Fashion Week, movie-star Sharon Stone, and boxing-champ Chris Eubank. "Save the dolphins!"

03:11

The R.O.M.E.O.S Ep.2 (Katy Chevigny)
ROMEO is an acronym for 'Retired Old Men Eating Out' and features an informal club of retired lawyers, writers and intellectuals who meet every week at a classic New York diner. It is a long lunch to talk about anything and everything; telling old jokes, making fun of each other, complaining about politics. This is what the conversation would be like if the guys from 'Diner' hung out 50 years after the movie.

01:38:25

OzDox: "The President Vs David Hicks"
What does it mean to set out on a filmmaking journey about a subject to whom you will probably never get access - and yet, who isn't dead? Someone who is incarcerated in the most securely guarded illegal institution in the world? About three months after Australian David Hicks was arrested in Afghanistan as a Taliban fighter, Curtis Levy embarked on such a journey. As he watched the relentless demonization of Hicks in the Australian papers, his curiosity about this man was piqued. How did this former young chicken processor become so drawn to Islamic fundamentalism that he felt compelled to take up arms?

25:49

Extinction Sucks: Hector's Dolphins
The rarest and smallest of all the world’s marine dolphins exist in New Zealand: In the North Island the Maui’s dolphin, and in the South, the Hector’s. And the single, greatest threat to the survival of the remaining 7,000 dolphins is entirely of man’s making: fishing. The use of gill nets, a wall of death for everything caught in it, has caused the New Zealand government to introduce a ban in order to save the Hector’s dolphin. However, the fishing industry are fighting this decision, claiming it will ruin their industry. Australian conservation team Aleisha Caruso and Ashleigh Young travel to New Zealand to hold a demonstration in support of the government, and meet scientists working day and night to protect the dolphins. Find out more at Babelgum’s Extinction Sucks

09:44

China Shaken
A recap of the most devastating earthquake in China's recent history, one that literally rocked the whole nation and killed 80,000, including thousands of young children

01:46:00

OzDox: The Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit
In Sydney a small band of film-makers stood out for the productivity and sustained excellence of their work. This was the Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit. A group of three which made 17 films between 1953-59, most of them for trade unions and financed by the trade union movement, principally the Waterside Workers Federation. They spoke of important issues - working conditions, health and safety, housing.

03:13

FEMMEfille (Kiki Allgeier)
How to deal with severe anorexia nervosa?

01:00:30

OzDox: The Men Who Would Conquer China
Filmed over three years it's a candid, funny and ironic saga of East-West capitalism and cultural conflict where a corporate banker from New York City teams up with a successful Chinese businessman to form an 'odd couple', a relationship that ultimately says a lot about where the West has been and where the East is heading. After the screening join director NICK TORRENS for an interview and audience Q&A with Sydney Morning Herald film critic PAUL BYRNES.

25:55

Extinction Sucks: Indian Rhinos
Rhino horn still fetches a high price in Traditional Asian medicine, not as an aphrodisiac as commonly thought, but as anti-inflammatory, despite there being no proven scientific evidence for this. Because of poaching, there are now just 2,500 great one-horned rhinos left in the wild. The majority of poaching, and smuggling, takes place in desperately poor countries such as Nepal, where the value of a rhino horn Is relatively small to Western countries, but the equivalent of a month’s salary over there. The Extinction Sucks team, Aleisha Caruso and Ashleigh Young, hold a ‘Missing Horn’ funk night in the their local pub in order to raise vitally needed cash for the Nepalese anti-poaching teams. They travel to Nepal and see some of the country’s remaining 408 magnificent rhinos first hand, within the shadows of the Himalayas. Find out more at Babelgum’s Extinction Sucks

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