Seatavern

For centuries, indigenous people lived sustainably while resisting invaders on South Africa’s Wild Coast, and recently in a David and Goliath courtroom battle against Shell, these communities succeeded in halting oil/gas exploration, winning ongoing protection for their ocean and culture.

This film celebrates and pays tribute to the amaMpondo for their outstanding and historic, legal victory over Shell, Impact Oil and Gas (Impact Africa) and the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources in South Africa. The story is constructed as an almighty existential clash of cultures.

The amaMpondo protagonists, conserving nature, their way of life and their very existence, battle the oil giants and the Minister of Energy antagonists, their profit-driven fossil fuel exploration that could potentially destroy marine life and indigenous culture.

This leads to a climactic courtroom ruling that might help influence the direction of travel for the next few years that humanity has left to drastically reduce carbon emissions and prevent a burning planet and biodiversity loss.

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DOORS OPEN AT 6PM, SCREENING STARTS AT 7:30PM