91 mins |
Rated
MA 15+ (Infrequent strong coarse language)
Directed by Kasimir Burgess
Starring Bob Brown, Oliver Cassidy, Hugo Weaving
*NT PREMIERE*
SUNDOWN SCREEN, Darwin Waterfront
6.40pm - Special Guest Q&A Featuring Chris Kamen, Oliver Cassidy and representatives from ECNT and Territory Rivers, Keep 'Em Flowing. MC'd by Morgan Rickard.
7.00pm - Screening
When Tasmania’s Hydro-Electric Commission planned to build a dam on the Franklin River, Launceston’s Wilderness Society mobilised to protect it, sparking a now-infamous, and ultimately victorious, campaign of blockades, protests, lawsuits and political wrangling – a campaign that was a key part of the development of the Australian Greens movement.
Franklin recounts this seminal environmental protest through the eyes of Oliver Cassidy, who retraces the journey on the World Heritage–listed river taken some 40 years before by his late activist father.
Rating Information - FRANKLIN has been given a MA15+ rating due to language, we have removed the most offensive language from the film.
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*NT PREMIERE*
SUNDOWN SCREEN, Darwin Waterfront
6.40pm - Special Guest Q&A Featuring Chris Kamen, Oliver Cassidy and representatives from ECNT and Territory Rivers, Keep 'Em Flowing. MC'd by Morgan Rickard.
7.00pm - Screening
When Tasmania’s Hydro-Electric Commission planned to build a dam on the Franklin River, Launceston’s Wilderness Society mobilised to protect it, sparking a now-infamous, and ultimately victorious, campaign of blockades, protests, lawsuits and political wrangling – a campaign that was a key part of the development of the Australian Greens movement.
Franklin recounts this seminal environmental protest through the eyes of Oliver Cassidy, who retraces the journey on the World Heritage–listed river taken some 40 years before by his late activist father.
Rating Information - FRANKLIN has been given a MA15+ rating due to language, we have removed the most offensive language from the film.