FLOODLAND
Feature Film (90mins)
WRITER/DIRECTOR JORDAN GIUSTI
CO-WRITER | CARLIE ATKINSON & JOSEPH NIZETI
PRODUCERS | RACHEL FORBES, GAL GREENSPANEP | ALICE BURGIN EDITOR | DANIEL WIECKMANN
LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR | BONSAI
A story of love and loss, a town and its people, the difficult past and strange future of Lismore, Australia’s most flooded postcode.
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS TO BE ANNOUNCED
VIEW MARKET TEASER HERE
DONATE HERE
E: floodland@sweetshopgreen.com
VISION
An Australia where everyone is prepared for climate events, has adequate housing and feels safe, and can access support when suffering from climate stress.
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Want to be kept up to date on Floodland and the impact campaign?
Feature Film (90mins)
WRITER/DIRECTOR JORDAN GIUSTI
CO-WRITER | CARLIE ATKINSON & JOSEPH NIZETI
PRODUCERS | RACHEL FORBES, GAL GREENSPANEP | ALICE BURGIN EDITOR | DANIEL WIECKMANN
LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR | BONSAI
A story of love and loss, a town and its people, the difficult past and strange future of Lismore, Australia’s most flooded postcode.
FESTIVAL SCREENINGS TO BE ANNOUNCED
VIEW MARKET TEASER HERE
DONATE HERE
E: floodland@sweetshopgreen.com
VISION
An Australia where everyone is prepared for climate events, has adequate housing and feels safe, and can access support when suffering from climate stress.
Want to be kept up to date on Floodland and the impact campaign?
SYNOPSIS
For those who call it home, Lismore in Northern NSW is a paradise you would never dream of leaving. It’s also a place that has flooded 150 times in 150 years. In 2022, when Lismore is shattered by its worst-ever catastrophe, hard truths and difficult decisions follow: Can Lismore, as we know it, survive?
Intimate and immersive, Floodland goes beyond the headlines of the most expensive climate disasters in Australia’s history. Following a rich cast of characters through the aftermath, we witness Eli, seasoned veteran of flooding, find love in the rubble. Harper, galvanised by injustice, finds his calling within politics, and Carlie, daughter to a Bundjalung elder, finds new ways of healing by embracing inherited First Nations knowledge.
A government buyback scheme brings new hope, but as it stalls and reality sets in, splintered results will divide neighbours, friendships, and a town as a whole. In the struggle for the soul of Lismore, however, Bundjalung leaders emerge with a different vision, where First Nations knowledge plays a vital role in healing, planning and respecting the rivers. The answers have always been there, but will the people of Lismore finally listen? At a crossroads, those who remain must choose whether to grit it out, adapt, or abandon Lismore. Through the story of Floodland, audiences are confronted with a challenging history and an uncertain future that affects us all
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For those who call it home, Lismore in Northern NSW is a paradise you would never dream of leaving. It’s also a place that has flooded 150 times in 150 years. In 2022, when Lismore is shattered by its worst-ever catastrophe, hard truths and difficult decisions follow: Can Lismore, as we know it, survive?
Intimate and immersive, Floodland goes beyond the headlines of the most expensive climate disasters in Australia’s history. Following a rich cast of characters through the aftermath, we witness Eli, seasoned veteran of flooding, find love in the rubble. Harper, galvanised by injustice, finds his calling within politics, and Carlie, daughter to a Bundjalung elder, finds new ways of healing by embracing inherited First Nations knowledge.
A government buyback scheme brings new hope, but as it stalls and reality sets in, splintered results will divide neighbours, friendships, and a town as a whole. In the struggle for the soul of Lismore, however, Bundjalung leaders emerge with a different vision, where First Nations knowledge plays a vital role in healing, planning and respecting the rivers. The answers have always been there, but will the people of Lismore finally listen? At a crossroads, those who remain must choose whether to grit it out, adapt, or abandon Lismore. Through the story of Floodland, audiences are confronted with a challenging history and an uncertain future that affects us all
