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The good life, Kiwi style, is on show in London in the form of an environmental movie that has just had its British premiere.
Earth Whisperers Papatuanuku features 10 New Zealanders who live close to nature, living sustainable, green lifestyles.
It was launched in London with a powhiri at New Zealand House after being shown in cinemas all over New Zealand.
Director Kathleen Gallagher says she hopes the movie will tap into the public concern in Britain over climate change.
"(For) these people it's just a bigger part of their lives - it's not that they don't do screens and that they don't travel around, but it's just a bigger part of their lives than for most of us," Gallagher says.
Realistically the film is unlikely to be shown in the cinemas of London's West End but it is a movie that is finding an audience in an unconventional manner.
"It's not just cinemas - it's like church halls, people setting up a screening, you know, they get 30 people around on a marae," she says.
Gallagher says she does not care how people see the film, just as long as they have a good time.
"I think people come away from it and they, I think, they feel closer to the Earth and also because there are so many ways in the movie that people do it - there's a way for everybody."
