Feature Documentary AFIN 134
Green Is The New Black
AFIN 2022 Winner · 2 awards
- 2022
- 1h 33m
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Australia - English
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2 frames
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Synopsis
Green Is The New Black is a story of passion and purpose behind an ambitious environmental feat of one of Australia’s leading heavy music acts, In Hearts Wake. Their fiercely loyal following has been forged from their relentless world - touring ethic, passionate ecological advocacy and hard-hitting, melodic-driven music. The band have received four top-5 records, an ARIA nomination for Best Hard Rock album, 110 million digital streams and over 100,000 records sold worldwide. But the more they recorded and toured the planet, the clearer it became: they were unwittingly threatening the very thing they sought to protect. The band vowed to record, release and perform their next album, (Kaliyuga), in a radically new and sustainable way. Green is the New Black is a carbon off-set documentary that captures the twists and turns of the band’s urgent mission to stop at nothing as they face backlash, bushfires and an unprecedented global pandemic.
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- A first-time filmmaker
From the Judges
From the Judges
A documentary following a band's bid to become carbon neutral, this short turns an environmental call to action into something genuinely inspiring, informative from start to finish. The panel responded to its originality and to the way its music and score carry the story, admiring the transparency with which the struggles of that journey are shown. Well told and engaging, it left them questioning what it really takes to change the way things are.
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Green Is The New Black was Winner of Best Sound and Best Documentary Feature at the AFIN International Film Festival 2022, a Top 100 Best Reviewed and IMDb-qualifying festival.
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