The Call of the Hummingbird
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Film Overview

Directed By: Alice Klein Written By: Alice Klein	Release Date: 2007-03-14 Running Time: 1:02 Content Rating: PG14 (Parental Guidance)	Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Audio Language(s): English, Portuguese, Spanish Subtitle Language(s): English
Genres: Documentary >> Politics :: Documentary >> International :: Documentary >> Nature & Wildlife :: Religion >> Other :: Religion >> Magic :: Religion >> Miracles :: New Age :: Hard to Classify :: Travel >> Religious Journeys :: Travel >> Special Categories :: Documentary >> Comedy Influences: An Inconvenient Truth // 11th Hour // Go Further // King Corn

Synopsis

A Full Frontal Eco-Manifesto

In the gorgeous setting of central Brazil, a rag tag group of 1000 bioregionalists, permaculture experts, Rastafarians, alternative health practitioners, 13 moon calendar followers and NGO executives spend 13 days in the wilderness together in order to try and make the world a better place in 13 days and possibly survive 2012.

But who is going to deal with the garbage? Welcome to "Survivor" for social change addicts where consensus is the only way to make decisions. Anyone can speak. For as long as they like, about whatever they want. And they do.

Out of the 400 who volunteered, only a quarter actually show up to work. But despite the seemingly unwieldy process, consensus slowly builds, dialogue happens, the garbage is dealt with and attitudes shift.

The film’s fascinating characters take us on a journey that covers terrain from the practices of permaculture and consensus facilitation all the way to theories about the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012 – just a few short years away. In the process we are introduced to new ideas about politics, nature and even time itself.

Call of the Hummingbird is a fascinating exploration of new paradigm thinking about organizing for social change.

Cast

as herself: Macarena Inostrosa
as herself: Nicole Lynch
a herself: Arnold Ricalde
as herself: Joscelyn Proctor
as herself: Beatte Walsdorff
as himself: Thomas Enlazador
as herself: Liora Adler
as himself: Alberto Ruz Buenfil
as herself: Jessica Rossiter
as herself: Estrella Rossiter
as herself: Kirsten Galbreath
as herself: Constanca Barahona
as herself: Taina
as herself: Heidi Junkersfeld
as herself: Maria Graciana
as himself: Odin Ruz
as himself: Aunrai Leitch
as himself: Marcelo Bueno
as himself: Ivan Sawyer
as herself: Kalinne Ribeiro
as herself: Veronica Sacta Campos
as himself: Lucas Dualde
as himself: Annibal Lusorini
as themselves: Alto Paraiso Health Inspection Team
as herself: Mariarita Barahona
as himself: Diogo Mendes
as herself: Nena Alava
as herself: Luiz Reido
as himself: Daniel Scampini

Crew

Director: Alice Klein | bio
Named in 2000 as one of the 100 Graduates Who Shaped the Century by the U of T Alumnae Association, NOW magazine editor/CEO and co-founder/owner Alice Klein draws on her experience in politics, business and psychology to focus on issues related to archetypal evolution and the global economy. She is NOW's founding news editor, and the editor of NOW's annual Love & Sex Guide.

Klein is also a founding member of Green Enterprise Toronto (GET), and one of the co-creators of VoteforEnvironment.ca, she sits on the Boards of the Centre for Social Innovation, the Toronto Arts Council (TAC) and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE). The Call of the Hummingbird is her first film.
Producer: Alice Klein
Picture Editor: Caroline Christie
Director of Photography: Donna Mobbs
Sound Design: Mike Filippov | bio
Location Sound Recording
Assistant Editor: Julia Bennett | bio
Story Editor
Location Manager: Odin Ruz | bio
and Production Manager
Sound Editor: Susan Fairbairn
Sound Mixer: Daniel Pellerin
Sound Mixer: Matt Chan
Camera Operator: Gregory Astor | bio
additional photography
Camera Operator: Brendon Blake | bio
additional photography
Writer: Alice Klein
Composer: Ana Valentina Medrano Mayol | bio
Opening and closing music

Accolades

Festivals

South by Southwest Film Festival
Hot Docs, Toronto
FICMAC - International Environmental Film Festival
Planet In Focus - International Environmental Film & Video Festival
DOCSDF - Mexico City International Documentary Festival
World Community Film Festival
Coyote Film Festival

Press Reviews

Austin Chronicle | show/hide snippet
"In some places, the debate is already a fading memory, and filmmaker Alice Klein found one of them in Brazil, where 900 people came together in 2005 for Call of the Hummingbird, a 13-day educational camp exploring methods of sustainable living. The event appears to be a kind of Phish concert without the Phish or the concert, complete with lots of topless and bottomless dancing hippies. But in actuality it's more like a conference minus the conference center, attracting "food activists and Rastas, Mayan calendar followers and bio-regionalists, open-source software geeks, and student activists" from 42 countries.

The gathering merges two divergent sides of the eco-community – the practical side (like the permaculturalists) and its more spiritual counterpart (the topless dancing people) – with mixed results. The waste-management experts end up sorting through other people's trash in an effort to do away with it responsibly, and late-night parties lead to unattended morning meetings. Call of the Hummingbird tells the story of how this disparate group gets its act together.

"Ecology is not only a subject of science, but it's also about human culture," Klein explains. "We have to get to a point where we're really enjoying what we're doing. ... You can see in the movie a lot of joy going on, though there's a lot of drudge work." Klein, who has a long background in covering political activism as editor and co-founder of Toronto alt-weekly NOW Magazine, felt that Hummingbird offered a unique chance to document a "discussion that's much more developed in Mexico and South America than here." That discussion, it turns out, makes a compelling case for the role of the modern hippie."
National Post | show/hide snippet
It's like Survivor, but the big prize here is spiritual development and permaculture. NOW magazine's Alice Klein steps away from the office, slides into some Birkenstocks and follows a group of Hare Krishnas, sustainability gurus, potheads and reformed CEOs to the middle of Brazil, where for 13 days they live without hierarchies or modern conveniences and learn to build a society of peace, love and happiness. It's all groovy like Woodstock until disease sets in, garbage piles up and tempers flare. This is a critical but open-minded film for anyone interested in what a no-impact lifestyle really involves. - - - V.F. If Hollywood remade it: It would be Dazed and Confused, in Portuguese, with a release date according to the Mayan calendar.