Fuck for Forest (film)

Fuck for Forest
Movie Poster
Directed byMichal Marczak
Written byLukasz Grudzinski
Michal Marczak
Produced byMikolaj Pokromski
Michal Marczak
StarringTommy Hol Ellingsen
Leona Johansson
CinematographyMichal Marczak
Edited byDorota Wardeszkiewicz
Music byMarcin Masecki
Production
companies
Pokromski Studio, Kinomaton Berlin
Distributed byDogwoof (International), Against Gravity (Poland), Neue Visionen (Germany)
Release dates
CountriesPoland
Germany
LanguagesEnglish
German
Spanish
Norwegian

Fuck for Forest is a 2012 documentary film directed by Michal Marczak. The film premiered in Poland on 13 October 2012 at the Warsaw Film Festival, where it won Best Documentary.[1][2] It premiered in the United States at the South by Southwest Film Festival on 8 March 2013.[3] In 2013 it was nominated for the Sheffield Green Award as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest, and received a Special Mention.[4]

Plot

The documentary follows Fuck for Forest, or FFF, a non-profit environmental organization founded in 2004 in Norway by Leona Johansson and Tommy Hol Ellingsen, which raises money for rescuing the world's rainforests by producing pornographic material or having sex in public.[3]

Reception

Critical reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 63% of 16 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.1/10.[5]

Controversy

In March 2013, Michal Marczak was criticized on the FFF website for manipulating events, such as setting up the "NGO meeting" in Brazil by feeding false information to the FFF team.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Warsaw Film Festival". Wff.pl. Retrieved 2014-06-26.
  2. ^ Fuck for Forest (2012) - Release dates
  3. ^ a b Sykes, Tom (2013-03-13). "Meet the Germans Having Sex to Save the World". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2013-03-22.
  4. ^ "Sheffield Doc/Fest: The Sheffield Green Award". Archived from the original on 2013-08-04. Retrieved 2013-07-30.
  5. ^ "Fuck for Forest". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 2023-05-28.
  6. ^ "~ Fuck for forest". ~ Fuck for forest. Retrieved 2014-03-15.


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