大会评优影片之《卡里奇：一个农业阴谋》

片名：卡里奇：一个农业阴谋
影片原产国：新西兰
片长：24 分钟
配音语言：英语
字幕：无
制作年份：1997 年
影片首映日期：1997 年
作者：克劳迪娅•芭比莱特
导演：克劳迪娅•芭比莱特
出品公司：克劳迪娅•芭比莱特影视制作公司

内容简介：生物恐怖主义、生态无政府主义，这些名词是那些蓄意把致命病毒引入新西兰并将其置于危险之中的人喜欢用的字眼。可是，要是我们当中就有那些人，甚至是我们民族的脊梁人物，那怎么办？
几十年来，奥塔古中部的农民一直与野兔战斗。这不是迪士尼小兔桑普，也不是彼得兔太太，这是一场毁坏菜园和牧场、吞噬整个地区的灾难。在二十世纪九十年代早期曾经有过希望之光—就是能消灭野兔的新型卡里奇病毒。但是，政府在1997年拒绝这种病毒进入新西兰，因此，小部分绝望的农民决定从澳大利亚走私这种病毒，并用于自己的土地上。
在死寂的夜晚，小瓶病毒经过重重匿名转手到达接收人手上。农民们还不能完全明白他们这种行为的严重性，依靠第八号技术把致命的病毒繁殖、散布在他们的土地上，开始了这场毁灭性的试验。
《卡里奇：一个农业阴谋》主要由三个散布病毒的农民讲述事情的经过，他们实际上参与了新西兰有史以来最大的边缘地区阴谋。本片幽默又冷静地记录了他们的经历和感受。

导演简历：克劳迪娅•芭比莱特在奥塔古大学获得自然历史电影制作与交流硕士学位。她的第一部纪录片《波克•斯托克》取得了成功，获得2005年野性南方国际电影节最佳新人奖。受此激励，克劳迪娅确定自己作为独立纪录片导演的身份。除了为醉酒负鼠制作公司、超越制作公司（悉尼）、绝对野性视觉公司和国际知名电影制作单位-新西兰自然史有限公司等制作影片外，她自己也创立了自己的公司，克劳迪娅•芭比莱特影视制作公司。

Name of Entry：Calici: A Rural Conspiracy
Country of Production：New Zealand
Running Time：24 minutes
Commentary Language：English
Subtitle：none
Year of Production：1997
Date of First Release：1997
Author：Claudia Babirat
Director(s)：Claudia Babirat
Company of Production：Claudia Babirat Productions

Brief Synopsis：
Bioterrorists. Ecological anarchists. Those are just some of the names reserved for those who would deliberately introduce a deadly virus across our borders and put New Zealand at risk. But what if those people are among us, the backbone of our nation?
For decades, the farmers of Central Otago have battled rabbits. Forget Thumper and Peter Rabbit — this is a plague that ravages gardens and pasture, denudes entire landscapes. In the early 1990s there was a brief glimmer of hope — a new Calici virus fatal to rabbits. But when the government denied access of the virus into the country in 1997, a small group of desperate farmers decided to take matters into their own hands, smuggling the virus in from Australia.
In the dead of night, little vials were passed to select recipients, often anonymously. Without fully comprehending the severity of their actions, the farmers began experimenting with lethal concoctions, relying on No. 8 technology to propagate and spread the deadly virus around their land.
Told largely through the words of three of the farmers who spread the virus, Calici: A Rural Conspiracy is a sometimes humorous, sometimes sobering look at what it was like to be part of New Zealand’s biggest-ever back-block conspiracy.

Filmography：
Claudia Babirat has a Masters in Natural History Filmmaking and Communication from the University of Otago. Fuelled by the success of her first documentary, 'Porker Stalker', which won best newcomer at the 2005 WildSouth International Film Festival, Claudia has established herself as an independent documentary filmmaker. As well as working for various production companies, including Pickled Possum Productions, Beyond Productions (Sydney), Absolutely Wild Visuals, and the internationally renowned film unit NHNZ (Natural History New Zealand), she has set up her own filmmaking business, Claudia Babirat Productions.