Film Screening - "Whatever happened to Brenda Hean?"

Movie Poster - Whatever happened to Brenda Hean?

WILDERNESS SOCIETY FUNDRAISER

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BRENDA HEAN?

Whatever Happened to Brenda Hean? tells the remarkable story of Brenda Hean – one of the first leaders of the world’s first environmental political party the United Tasmanian Group – whose fight to save Tasmania’s Lake Pedder from a massive hydro-electric scheme lead to her mysterious disappearance in 1972. Thirty-five years later award winning Tasmanian filmmaker Scott Millwood (Wildness) undertakes a quest to discover the truth.  The quest takes us on a journey into the landscape and eccentric community of Tasmania, painting a portrait of an inspirational woman whose environmental values still resonate today.

SCREENING DETAILS

Hobart - Sunday 5 October 2008, 4pm
State Cinema, North Hobart

Tickets: $15 - purchase from The Wilderness Society Shop, Salamanca or at the door.

Melbourne - 9 October 2008, 7pm
Cinema Nova, 380 Lygon Street, Carlton
Victoria

Tickets: $15 – Purchase from Vic Campaign Centre, 2/288 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy or pay by credit card 03 9038 0888 and pick up on the night.

Scheduled screening time may vary slightly, please call 03 9038 0888 from Tuesday 7 October onwards for exact screening time or alternatively visit www.cinemanova.com.au/session.html

Filmmaker Scott Millwood will present a Q&A after the film

The story of Brenda Hean is not well known but highly significant to a world trying to deal with environmental issues as an international community. The story of her founding the first Green political party in the world in order to save an alpine lake provides a microcosmic mirror to the world’s pressing environmental issues - global warming, deforestation and climate-change. The manner in which she and her supporters spoke of environmental issues throughout the Pedder campaign is even more relevant today.
 
Brenda Hean is an inspiration.  She was in many ways an ordinary person leading an ordinary life who had an extraordinary epiphany when the Lake she loved was threatened. The transformation of ordinary people into activists and dissidents is always fascinating but all the more because Brenda Hean was in her early sixties and a woman prior to both the women’s movement and the emergence of environmentalism. She reminds all of us that it is never too late to create change.

For more information visit: www.brendahean.com