A controversial film opposing the use of 1080 poison will be shown on Friday night in Oamaru, with its makers attending.
Friends of Waianakarua, a community group which opposes the use of the poison, has organised the screening of Poisoning Paradise - Ecocide in New Zealand at the Waitaki Boys High School auditorium.
At the showing will be Hamilton-based Clyde and Steve Graf, who made the film.
Largely shot in bush areas after aerial 1080 drops, the documentary showed people the other side of the story, Clyde Graf said.
It shows falcons and other birds dying, freshwater crayfish fighting over submerged 1080 pellets, deer and pigs rotting in creeks, eels eating dead animals in waterways, dead and dying stock, and weka and bush robins picking at poisoned carcasses and bait.
The Graf brothers worked on the film for eight months after seeing a weka picking at a carcass in Kahurangi National Park.
"We are asking people who care about New Zealand to sit through this to get the full picture about 1080 before they make up their minds," Clyde Graf said.