Fools and Dreamers: Regenerating a Native Forest

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Hugh Wilson

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Tricia Hewlett

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Bob Masefield

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Jordan Osmond Antoinette Wilson
Writing	Writer	Jordan Osmond Nick Tucker Antoinette Wilson
Production	Producer	Antoinette Wilson
	Executive Producer	Quatro Trust
Sound	Original Music Composer	Karl Steven Ariana Tikao
	Sound Mixer	James Henderson
	Sound Recordist	Anna Veale
Editing	Editor	Jordan Osmond
	Color Grading	Mike Kelland
Crew	In Memory Of	Maurice White
Camera	Director of Photography	Jordan Osmond Jason Hosking
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