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The incredible story of how degraded gorse-infested farmland has been regenerated back into beautiful New Zealand native forest over the course of 30 years. Fools & Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is a 30-minute documentary about Hinewai Nature Reserve, on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula, and its kaitiaki/manager of 30 years, botanist Hugh Wilson. When, in 1987, Hugh let the local community know of his plans to allow the introduced ‘weed’ gorse to grow as a nurse canopy to regenerate farmland into native forest, people were not only skeptical but outright angry – the plan was the sort to be expected only of “fools and dreamers”. Now considered a hero locally and across the country, Hugh oversees 1500 hectares resplendent in native forest, where birds and other wildlife are abundant and 47 known waterfalls are in permanent flow. He has proven without a doubt that nature knows best – and that he is no fool.
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 2019-06-28
- video_camera_front Companies Happen Films, Quatro Trust
- timer Runtime: 30 Mins
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- info IMDB ID tt10560270
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Jordan Osmond
Writer
Nick Tucker
Writer
Antoinette Wilson
Writer
Antoinette Wilson
Producer
Karl Steven
Original Music Composer
Ariana Tikao
Original Music Composer
Jordan Osmond
Editor
Mike Kelland
Color Grading
Maurice White
In Memory Of
James Henderson
Sound Mixer
Jordan Osmond
Director of Photography
Jason Hosking
Director of Photography
Anna Veale
Sound Recordist
Quatro Trust
Executive Producer
Jordan Osmond
Director
Antoinette Wilson
Director
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