Pip Starr
Location: Melbourne Australia
URL: http://www.starr.tv
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Genre Interests : Documentary
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Latest Videos
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Posted: 20-Sep-2007 Video duration : 14 minutes 5 seconds
Atomic Footprints
Australia is on the verge of the largest expansion on its nuclear industry. Booting John Howard and the Liberal government out of office might not in itself be enough to stop all of it, but it would be a good start. Read more…
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Posted: 05-Jun-2007 Video duration : 5 minutes 10 seconds
Kevin Buzzacott wins Environment Award
Congratulations go to Kevin Buzzacott, who was today announced the winner of the Australian Conservation Foundation's 2007 Peter Rawlinson environment award for his work in highlighting the impacts of the Olympic Dam uranium mine. Read more…
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Posted: 01-Jun-2007 Video duration : 10 minutes 41 seconds
Kingfisher Festival 2000
Community effort has restored Melbourne's degraded Merri Creek into a nature corridor. An indicator of the success of the efforts was the return in 1992 of the Sacred Kingfisher, a small and beautiful bird to the creek. Read more…
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Posted: 26-May-2007 Video duration : 16 minutes 0 seconds
Reclaim The Streets 7
Reclaim the Streets 7, March 1999. Hundreds of partiers in an ongoing Reclaim the Streets occupy several sites in Sydney, including the Eastern Distributor. Global Warming was still just a distant concept to most of us at this point in time, but by protesting about over use of the motor car we were obviously on the right track. September 11 was just another day on the calendar. Read more…
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Posted: 29-May-2007 Video duration : 16 minutes 31 seconds
The Okapa Connection
The Okapa Connections follows the journey of a shipment of coffee, as it makes its way from bush to brew. Starting life as a ripe red cherry, the coffee must pass through many hands and travel many miles by some unusual means so it can find its way to being a cup of hot coffee. The Okapa Connection reveals how fair trade and organic production methods are beginning to transform the lives of the coffee farmers in the remote and beautiful mountains of PNG. Read more…
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Posted: 04-Jan-2007 Video duration : 9 minutes 59 seconds
Through the Wire
In March 2002, detainees of Australia's Woomera detention centre staged a mass breakout in a spontaneous and desperate bid for freedom. Aided by hundreds of committed social activists protesting Australia's treatment of asylum seekers in mandatory detention, the breakout captured the attention and interest of human rights groups around the globe. At the frontline of the breakout, filmmaker Pip Starr captures the raw emotion and urgency of the event to create a damning indictment of Australia's inhumane immigration policies. Read more…
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Posted: 25-Nov-2006 Video duration : 1 minute 26 seconds
Fight for Country (excerpt)
A scene from a documentary i made a few years ago. 106 people were arrested on this day, as they peacefully sat on the access road to the portal compound of the now mothballed Jabiluaka uranium mine. Read more…
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Posted: 07-Nov-2006 Video duration : 4 minutes 55 seconds
Carteret Islands 4min
The people of the Carteret Islands are about to make history. They will not be the first people to lose their homes because of global warming. Rising seas, expanding deserts and changing weather have already displaced many, possibly millions of people. But the people of the Carterets may be unique, as they begin to abandon their atoll, one of the first peoples in the world to do so. Read more…
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Independent Media at Climate Camp Australia 2008
Plug-in TV production meeting for new season!