Film

Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest

2019 · 30m · Documentary

IMDb

8.4

The incredible story of how degraded gorse-infested farmland has been regenerated back into beautiful New Zealand native forest over the course of 30 years. Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’ gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”. Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500 hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. He has proven without a doubt that nature knows best – and that he is no fool.

• Jordan OsmondDirector of Photography · Writer · Editor · Director
• Antoinette WilsonWriter · Producer · Director
• Nick TuckerWriter
• Quatro TrustExecutive Producer
• Jason HoskingDirector of Photography
• Ariana TikaoOriginal Music Composer
• Karl Sölve StevenOriginal Music Composer

Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (Official Trailer)

Release date

June 28, 2019

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

30m

Genres

Documentary