The following article was written for Filmink.com.au
“There are so many issues in the world, so many problems, and lots of
documentaries pointing them out. But they can be incredibly depressing
for people,” muses Transitions International Film Festival director Tim
Parish. “And I felt that fatigue myself…not really wanting to engage
with a documentary that I knew I would walk out of feeling even more
depressed about the state of the world. So I started to really seek out
films that were offering solutions.”
A filmmaker himself, it was while doing research for a documentary
project that Parish was inspired to start the sustainability based
Transitions Festival, which kicks into gear mid-February in Melbourne at
Cinema Nova and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and aims to
focus “not just on the problems of environmental issues, but the
solutions.”
With its origins in Parish’s home town of Darwin in 2011, the
festival came to Melbourne in 2012, in part thanks to a partnership with
the Sustainable Living Festival. Now in its third year, the slate of
films has expanded considerably, with the 2013 program boasting a number
of Australian premieres; the most notable of which is Promised Land, the new film from director Gus Van Sant, starring Matt Damon.
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