The Plough welcomes BIG PLANET, LITTLE PLANET for a night of community and conversation!
Big Planet, Little Planet - Ecological Film Festival 2025 feat. Flight Of The Swans
In Person - Sacha Dench aka The 'HUMAN SWAN'
Friday 3rd October 2025 at The Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington.
6.30pm - 10.30pm.
Film screenings:
6.30pm - A very special opportunity to revisit an 'in conversation' between reknowned peace campaigner Satish Kumar and James Lovelock, founder of the GAIA THEORY. Not to be missed!! (running time 88 mins)
8.15 pm - Middle Watch (running time 12 mins)
8.45 pm Flight Of The Swans (running time 62 mins)
Flight Of The Swans - Director: Annabel Vine. Starring: Sophie Okonedo
The Human Swan - Sacha Dench - will join us in person to introduce the film and speak about her charity CONSERVATION WITHOUT BORDERS.
SACHA DENCH, a female conservationist, takes to the skies in a paramotor to follow Bewick’s Swans on their annual migration in a bid to understand their dramatic decline; 7,000 kilometers, 11 countries, from Russia to England across tundra, forests, and industrial landscapes, where she encounters people just as passionate about saving and protecting these birds and their wetland homes. Narrated by Academy Award nominee Sophie Okonedo.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14696722/
Middle Watch - Director: John Stevenson and Aiesha Penwarden Prod: Giles Healy
As WWII draws to a close, a sailor aboard ship in the Indian Ocean watches the horizon for stealthy submarines. Haunted and scarred by conflict and the loss of fellow shipmates, our sailor's task is the Middle Watch, but the mysteries of the deep beckon in a surprising encounter. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18396060/
Middle Watch was shortlisted in the British Short Animation category of the 2023 BAFTA Film Awards. The short was partly funded by Falmouth's School of Film & Television, enabling students to gain valuable experience working on a live project with esteemed industry professionals. The film was written and directed by John Stevenson, co-directed by Falmouth Animation BA(Hons) graduate Aiesha Penwarden and produced by Giles Healy.
Big Planet, Little Planet runs a series of networking events, workshops, talks and film-screenings that celebrate Planet Earth, hosting space for conversations that explore new ways of being amidst our rapidly changing ecology - both local and global.
The Big Planet, Little Planet Ecological Film Festival is a collaboration with The Plough Arts Centre - previous events in 2024 and 2025 have included a screening of Radical Love Film, which tells the story of peace activist Satish Kumar, featuring a live Q&A with Satish and Brazilian film director Julio Hey.
Come and connect with other campaigners and creatives! Big Planet, Little Planet events host campaign groups, artists and environmental organisations that are connected through a desire to grow a wider awareness of the relationships within our environments.