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our existence on this planet is precarious.

How to Save the World exposes globalization and its mantra of infinite growth in a finite world for what it really is:!an environmental and human disaster.

But across India marginal farmers are fighting back. By reviving an arcane form of agriculture, they are saving their poisoned lands and exposing the bio-colonialism of multinational corporations. How to Save the World tells their story through the teachings of!an elderly New Zealander many are calling the new Gandhi.

What does an environmentally sustainable food system capable of feeding everyoneactually look like?How to Save the World is a blueprint for a post-industrial future.

This film takes you into the heart of the world’s most important renaissance.

The outcome of the battle for agricultural control in India may just dictate the future of the earth.

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Short Statement:Making How to Save the World was an eye opener. Not just the reality of India but the dawning awareness of just how precarious our existence on this planet is. Living in the comfort zone we are totally insulated from that reality.

Longer Statement:What is it about India? One visit and you’re hooked – on all that life, on the noise and congestion, on the smells that permeate every corner of that vast land. And on the people: Their openness and willingness to engage, their sense of community andcaring.

And their plight: As the mantra of infinite growth in a finite world swells, as the reality of what happens to people when they are used as a means of production finally sinks in.

But India is more than those impressions; it is possibly the centre of a new world order. A way of living that will be forced on us by the collapse of our ecosystems. When that time comes, will the self-sustaining village community become the new centre of the universe?

This project got under our skin and changed the way we viewed the world. We hope the audience will experience a little of that change.

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a b o U t P e t e r P r o C t o r

Peter Proctor is almost 80. He has a glass eye and boundless energy.

He is hard of hearing, but for him the earth sings.

Peter has left behind the comforts of a life in suburban New Zealand to live and work in India.

He is also quietly determined to save the world.

director and cinematographer Tom Burstyn CSC, FRSA is a multi-award winning, Emmy nominated filmmaker with 30 plus years experience as a cinematographer. Tom trained at the National Film Board of Canada as a documentary maker, before enjoying great success in the feature film industry. Tom directed the multi-award winning documentaries One Man, One Cow, One Planet and This Way of Life. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and has dual New Zealand / Canadian citizenship. He is co-director of Cloud south Films.

Producer, researcher and writer Barbara Sumner Burstyn is a Qantas Award winning columnist and now award winning documentary producer for One Man, One Cow, One Planet & This Way of Life. She is widely published in New Zealand. barbara is co-director of Cloud south Films.

Peter Coyote – Narration Ben Ged Low – Film EditorMercan Dede – music Composer

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We are escapees from the corporate media and the fantasy world of feature films. We believe that documentary filmmaking; personal, well researched, visually compelling and socially relevant, is the only medium worth investing in. How to Save the World is privately funded. A royalty will be returned to support the work of biodynamics in India.

“For the dissident audience» the mission of the environmental documentary is to corrode the mantra of development equals progress, jobs, and a strong economy. For an apathetic audience» the mission is to open a wedge in the indifference. For younger audiences, the mission is to educate and recruit a new generation to activism. For sympathetic audiences, the mission is to inspire and energize the troops” The Last Stand by Emily D. Edwards, PhD

W H y A R E W E ?

This Way of Life – feature documentary, Cloud South Films, 2005-2009

Yolanda’s Last Portrait – feature documentary, Cloud South Films, in post-production

If Water Were God – feature documentary (in production), Cloud South Films, Healing Water Institute

One man, One Cow, One Planet – 1 hr television documentary 2007

How to Save the World – feature documentary. Cloud South Films 2006

Profiles in Rock – 13 part 1⁄2 hr documentary series, 1981

Flash William – 1⁄2 hr documentary, National Film Board of Canada, 1976

If Brains Were dynamite You Wouldn’t Have Enough to Blow Your Nose - 1⁄2 hr doc, 1975

Le Patriote – 1⁄2 hr documentary, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 1975

Full cinematography resume available on request

t H o M a s b U r s t Y NF I L M O G R A P H y

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Cloud south Films ltd.89 Clarence Street,PonsonbyAuckland 10100+64 21 02508007sumnerburstyn@gmail.comtburstyn@gmail.com

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