On Jan­u­ary 22–24, 2009, an envi­ron­men­tal doc­u­men­tary film fes­ti­val “South to South Fil Fes­ti­val 2010” was held in Goethe Insti­tute, Jakarta. The event was hosted by sev­eral NGOs namely JATAM, WALHI, Cli­mate Jus­tice, KIARA, Gekko Stu­dio, Eco­sis­ters, Sawit Watch, Sol­i­dar­i­tas Perem­puan and Indone­sia berseru.

Opened by Salahudin Wahid, also known as Gus Solah, and the rep­re­sen­ta­tive of Lapindo mud vic­tim chil­dren, the event took the theme of We Care. With this theme StoS Film Fes­ti­val 2010 raises the sol­i­dar­ity and involve­ment from the South­ern coun­tries com­mu­nity and also upstream and down­stream com­mu­nity mem­bers to save the envi­ron­ment and the vic­tim­ized com­mu­nity. As one of its pub­lic involve­ment, StoS Film Fes­ti­val 2010 held an envi­ron­men­tal doc­u­men­tary movie competition.

The Indone­sia Eco­la­bel­ing Insti­tute took the part in the com­pe­ti­tion. In col­lab­o­ra­tion with KOMSEPSI Mataram, LEI pre­sented the movie titled “Satu Hara­pan” (One Hope).

Directed by Yuli Andari, the movie presents com­mu­nity for­est man­age­ment prac­tice in Sesaot, Nusa Teng­gara Barat. Anton Susilo, the cam­era per­son, tells the story of how nat­ural resources man­age­ment, espe­cially for­est resources, is closely related to the prob­lems of health edu­ca­tion and gen­der faced by the com­mu­nity in the area. The movie focuses on the char­ac­ter of Ibu Sapiah. Ibu sapiah has to work hard to sus­tain her life and the life of her two chil­dren. She relies on the non for­est prod­ucts she can obtain from the for­est she man­ages. Sapiah’s char­ac­ter is cho­sen as she is able to cre­ate an aware­ness that there are com­mu­nity mem­bers who have been mar­gin­al­ized due to the min­i­mum access to for­est resources. The movie also illus­trate how dif­fi­cult Sapiah’s life is due to the fact that she is also a mother who has to work in both pri­vate and pub­lic realms. The clear mes­sage of the movie is that the com­plex prob­lem of for­est resources man­age­ment must be holis­ti­cally approached using cross sec­tor method, not only by improv­ing the sys­tem and for­est pro­duc­tion technique.

On Jan­u­ary 24, 2009 StoS Film Fes­ti­val 2010 awarded Satu Hara­pan as the win­ner of the doc­u­men­tary movie sec­tion and it is also enti­tled to receive the South to South Film Fes­ti­val Award. Satu Hara­pan was selected as the best movie out of the total 69 movies from var­ios places in Indone­sia. In addi­tion to the received award, Satu Hara­pan is also enti­tled to be awarded with cash money. The cash money is given to Ibu Sapiah so that she can use it to sup­port the edu­ca­tion of her two chil­dren. This is also our appre­ci­a­tion the Ibu Sapiah for the the inspi­ra­tional story she has given.

Many par­ties con­tribute to the movie’s suc­cess, and as one of the com­mu­ni­ca­tion media forms, Satu Hara­pan is expected to pro­vide spirit to LEI, KONSEPSI Mataram and other con­stituents to be more cre­ative in con­vey­ing their mis­sion of fair and sus­tain­able resources man­age­ment practices.