Environmental Films Australia is back at Champagne Video Bar (prev Wildflower Video Bar) for our final event of the year!

A casual film club and community catch up, our Video Bar screenings offer a unique opportunity to watch a wide range of environmental cinema, rarely seen anywhere else, explore our place in the wider world, and connect with new friends.

Grab a drink in the bar before and after, discuss the films, and get to know each other and the Environmental Films Australia volunteer team. Pre-order your dinner before the start of the first film and it'll be waiting for you during our interval!

18:30 - 20:00 | EFA presents: Tim Stead Magician With Wood (2024) Australian Premiere

The charming story of Tim Stead, a community wood, and the plan to save a one-of-a-kind home.

Highlighting Tim's legacy of sustainable art practice, environmental advocacy and kickstarting Scotland's community land ownership movement, this deeply moving documentary follows Maggy Stead as she battles to secure the future of 'The Steading', a Grade A-listed property sculpted from wood and their shared home.

Exploring the bonds of love and grief, loyalty and friendship, collaboration and community, our relationship with trees, and nature as a catalyst for our creativity and wellbeing in the face of climate change.

21:00 - 22:00 | No More Pool Time (2024) plus After Dark shorts

An eclectic series of exciting, playful, and dynamic shorts, exploring ideas of environment and what it means to live in a more-than-human world. Weird, wonderful and boundary-pushing cinema.

This month, we're doing something a little different, with a entire program of narrative/fiction films! No docos here!

🎬 NO MORE POOL TIME (2024) Victorian Premiere
A newly minted pool owner finds himself in a moral dilemma between the promise of a pool to his young daughter and his new partner's charity event for a drinking water project. A biting satire that is as uncomfortable as it is hilarious.

🎬 Hudson Geese (2020)
The sweet yet confronting tale of a goose flock's final migration across the Hudson.

🎬 The Generators (2024) Australian Premiere
In a time when energy credits are the new currency, an empty bank balance leaves one man with no option but to physically power his ailing husband’s treatment. A story of love and humanity set against a future we can change.

🎬 Alegría / Euphoria (2019)
An award winning water-colour animation celebrating the euphoria that comes with accepting nature as part of our society.

TICKETS

Single Session $10

Double Feature $16

VENUE

Champagne Video Bar (previously known as Wildflower)
318 St Georges Rd, Fitzroy North 3068

ABOUT US

Environmental Films Australia is a volunteer-run arts charity based in Naarm that promotes action through cinema, community and connection.

We prioritise climate and environments through film, provide platforms for artists to showcase their work, and create space for people to connect and exchange solutions. Previously known as Environmental Film Festival Australia.

Contact the host of Tim Stead Magician With Wood (2024), plus No More Pool Time & After Dark Shorts | Final event of the year!