INVESTIGATIVE DOCUMENTARIES
With a passion for the environment at the heart of every film we make, True Nature Films prides itself in exposing critical issues that often fail to make it on to mainstream broadcast channels. Working alongside charitable non-governmental organisations we ensure these vitally important messages reach the public through the internet, festivals, pod-casts and private campaigns.
The Curse of Copper
The Curse of Copper has been our most successful award-winning production in this genre, helping to spread awareness of the often underhand - and sometimes fatal - means multi-national companies exploit and endanger people, and the environment, in the name of 'development'. In this film, a Canadian Mining Company is in the process of obtaining the rights to mine copper in one of the world's biological hotspots - a pristine cloud forest in the heart of the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. Local communities strongly oppose the mine as it will ruin their livelihoods and destroy their environment, which is home to many endangered species. The mining company is ignoring their heart-felt pleas and pushing forward with the project, with disastrous consequences.
- Finalist Planet in Focus, 2006
- Best non-broadcast film Montana Cine, 2006
- Best Independent film at IWFF Missoula, 2007
- Best environmental film Earth Vision, 2007
- Finalist Environmental category, Jackson Hole, 2007
For full length movie, please visit Life on Terra
The Curse of Copper movie clip
Africa’s Winning Scenario
This 39 minute documentary reveals how Africa’s people can adapt to Climate Change and significantly contribute to mitigating the impacts of global warming through innovative, simple systems of farming and sustainable development. These systems are saving lives, increasing prosperity and protecting the continent’s biodiversity. This highly effective approach is providing farmers in Africa with a Winning Scenario, that, if sufficiently supported, could help prevent some of the suffering and environmental destruction that is so frequently reported from this fragile continent.
Official Selection Montana CINE festival, 2011.