Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)
30m
Running Time
June 28, 2019Release Date
Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest (2019)
30m
Running Time
June 28, 2019Release Date
Network & Production Companies


Plot.
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.
Where to Watch.

Currently Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Beamafilm
Streaming in:🇦🇺 Australia
Cast & Crew.

Hugh Wilson
Self

Tricia Hewlett
Self

Bob Masefield
Self

Karl Steven
Original Music Composer

Jason Hosking
Director of Photography

Maurice White
In Memory Of

Jordan Osmond
Director of Photography / Editor / Writer / Director

Antoinette Wilson
Producer / Writer / Director

Ariana Tikao
Original Music Composer

Anna Veale
Sound Recordist

Mike Kelland
Color Grading

James Henderson
Sound Mixer

Nick Tucker
Writer
