Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Three filmmakers, four continents, 12 short films. Starting in January 2024 we're collaborating with our friends at @campfire-stories and @ReflectionsofLife to bring you this new series called Something Beautiful for the World!
Together we'll be releasing one film per month for the whole year, four from each filmmaker to make a total of 12 films. The common theme? Small acts with immeasurable impact. Small acts of love, kindness, and beauty have ripple effects that we may never see or understand, but they can change our world for the better.
Find the films as they come out in this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLye1JIzaiQ6rKe40SkcSWqoC_sn4v_vIY
We hope this series will inspire us all to celebrate and value those day-to-day actions and simple ways of being in the world that impact the world around us and contribute to creating a more beautiful world.
The title is borrowed from a book that is the inspiration for one of the films we'll release in the series. Something Beautiful for the World: A Shakuhachi Sadhana by Tarchin Hearn is a beautiful meditation on the ways we can compare the making of a traditional Japanese flute, a shakuhachi, and the making of a beautiful human (and consequently humanity). If that intrigues you as much as it intrigued us, we recommend checking out the book at greendharmatreasury.org/writings/books. We're excited to share that film with you next year!
Be sure to subscribe to us, @campfire-stories, and @ReflectionsofLife to be notified about each release. Stay tuned for the first film on 27 January 2024!
Three filmmakers, four continents, 12 short films. Starting in January 2024 we're collaborating with our friends at @campfire-stories and @ReflectionsofLife to bring you this new series called Something Beautiful for the World!
Together we'll be releasing one film per month for the whole year, four from each filmmaker to make a total of 12 films. The common theme? Small acts with immeasurable impact. Small acts of love, kindness, and beauty have ripple effects that we may never see or understand, but they can change our world for the better.
Find the films as they come out in this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLye1JIzaiQ6rKe40SkcSWqoC_sn4v_vIY
We hope this series will inspire us all to celebrate and value those day-to-day actions and simple ways of being in the world that impact the world around us and contribute to creating a more beautiful world.
The title is borrowed from a book that is the inspiration for one of the films we'll release in the series. Something Beautiful for the World: A Shakuhachi Sadhana by Tarchin Hearn is a beautiful meditation on the ways we can compare the making of a traditional Japanese flute, a shakuhachi, and the making of a beautiful human (and consequently humanity). If that intrigues you as much as it intrigued us, we recommend checking out the book at greendharmatreasury.org/writings/books. We're excited to share that film with you next year!
Be sure to subscribe to us, @campfire-stories, and @ReflectionsofLife to be notified about each release. Stay tuned for the first film on 27 January 2024!







![Dr Jessica Hutchings Interview on Hua Parakore, Māori Food Sovereignty, and Growing Organic Food
Watch the 8-minute film we made about Hua Parakore: https://youtu.be/x3qMIFQLK8c
This is the full-length interview with Dr Jessica Hutchings for our film Hua Parakore: Living Indigenous Food Sovereignty.
Hua Parakore provides a framework using Indigenous values – Māori principles – for producing natural food without chemical inputs or GMO. It also encapsulates the Māori worldview in its approach to how food growers are verified as Hua Parakore, with principles that require practitioners to deeply consider such things as their connection with the land, its energy, the many species living on it, and their community.
There are many Māori-language words throughout the video so weve created English subtitles for those unfamiliar with the terms used. Please let us know if you discover errors. While the short film subtitles were professionally created, these ones are not. Errors will be corrected as soon as we hear about them!
**Question timecodes for this interview**
0:55: What was this land like when you arrived here?
3:28: Could you speak about the origin of the farm’s name, Papawhakaritorito?
4:48: What is Hua Parakore?
9:35: What are the core principles of Hua Parakore?
11:28: Could you elaborate on the core principle of ‘Whakapapa’?
15:25: Could you elaborate on the core principle of ‘Te Ao Tūroa’?
16:54: Could you elaborate on the core principle of ‘Mauri’?
19:52: Could you elaborate on the core principle of ‘Māramatanga’?
24:29: Could you elaborate on the core principle of ‘Mana’?
26:26: Could you elaborate on the core principle of ‘Wairua’?
27:45: What is the worldview behind the Hua Parakore framework?
31:05: How does Hua Parakore differ from organic certification schemes?
33:16: How does the process of becoming Hua Parakore verified differ to organic certification?
36:04: Could you speak to how biodynamics is incorporated into your Hua Parakore practice at Papawhakaritorito?
39:51: Could you explore the connections between healthy soil and healthy people?
42:16: What does the phrase food sovereignty mean?
48:42: What advice would you give to someone wanting to engage with Hua Parakore?
49:36: What place is there in Hua Parakore for Pākehā [non-Māori New Zealanders]?
51:07: How can Pākehā support Māori food sovereignty more generally?
53:41: How relevant is Hua Parakore beyond Aotearoa New Zealand?
56:13: How important is seed saving in the Hua Parakore framework?
**Find out more about Hua Parakore**
Te Waka Kai Ora: https://www.tewakakaiora.co.nz/
Jessica Hutchings: https://jessicahutchings.org/
Purchase Jessicas books via links on her website: https://jessicahutchings.org/books-and-offerings/ (The two books weve read – which have partly Māori-language titles but are both written in English – are: Te Mahi Mara Hua Parakore: A Māori Food Sovereignty Handbook and Te Mahi Oneone Hua Parakore: A Māori Soil Sovereignty and Wellbeing Handbook.)
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