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Derek vs Derek
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Derek vs Derek

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Movies that Matter On Tour brings a selection of impactful festival films to LHC. Films that move, challenge, connect and inspire change. Always with context: your local volunteers provide an introduction or follow-up discussion with guest speakers at each screening. This time with Jerry van Dijk. He is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University. He graduated as an environmental scientist and obtained his PhD on ecological restoration in peatland areas at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. His research and teaching focus on the effects of environmental change on ecosystems and community dynamics in the context of nature conservation, and on how the main human drivers of biodiversity loss can be addressed through societal sustainability transformations.
 
In the idyllic English countryside lives an intensive dairy farmer called Derek. One day his neighbour, also called Derek, forsakes farming tradition and starts turning his land over to wild nature. How does the community react when one of its own turns his back on their way of life?

Credits

Regie
James Dawson
Genre
Documentary
Speelduur
89 min.
Land
UK
Taal
English
Ondertiteling
English

Omschrijving

Renouncing the damage conventional farming is doing, Derek Gow unleashes a whirlwind of change: wild boar turf-up fields and over a hundred ponds are being dug up. Gow turns sheds and barns into breeding pens for a host of nearly extinct native wildlife to repopulate his revived land: storks, wildcats, mole crickets, egrets, water voles, glow worms. And he has beavers creating lagoons. His neighbour Derek Banbury peers over his hedge in disbelief. ‘I don’t know what he’s doing. It’s not farming, it’s just a bloody mess!’ Derek vs Derek is a funny story about a serious subject. Set against the backdrop of the growing crisis of biodiversity loss and climate change, this observational film, shot over three years, charts the relationship of the two Dereks, and the impact this momentous decision has on the local community. Meanwhile tempers fray, wild animals escape, and the land is transformed.