Fuck for Forest (film)

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]

Fuck for Forest
Movie Poster
Directed byMichal Marczak
Produced byMikolaj Pokromski
Michal Marczak
Written byLukasz Grudzinski
Michal Marczak
StarringTommy Hol Ellingsen
Leona Johansson
Music byMarcin Masecki
CinematographyMichal Marczak
Edited byDorota Wardeszkiewicz
Production
company
Pokromski Studio, Kinomaton Berlin
Distributed byDogwoof (International), Against Gravity (Poland), Neue Visionen (Germany)
Release date
13 October 2012 (Warsaw Film Festival)
8 March 2013 (South by Southwest Film Festival)
CountryPoland
Germany
LanguageEnglish
German
Spanish
Norwegian

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 review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 54% based on 13 reviews, 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. 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 (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  6. "~ Fuck for forest". ~ Fuck for forest. Retrieved 2014-03-15.


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