A giant black leopard's entire personality was changed when he communicated with the amazing animal-whisperer Anna Breytenbach in The Foster Brothers’ latest film The Animal Communicator. This film brought The Brothers’ work to the hearts, and minds, of a whole new audience around the world. SENSE AFRICA is an overview of the past, and ongoing work of two of South Africa’s … [Read more...]
Tasty tales from the Overberg
Environmentalist film production and media agency Green Renaissance has recently closed shop in Cape Town and moved to a tiny off-grid home in the Overberg, along the Cape's South Coast. They continue to produce the most creative short films on topics related to sustainable living, which we will be sharing with your regularly. Here are two from their new series of … [Read more...]
The emergent patterns of climate change
We live in a very complex environment: we see complexity and dynamism and patterns of evidence in satellite photographs, and videos. You can even see it outside your window. It's endlessly complex, but somehow familiar. The patterns kind of repeat, but they never repeat exactly. It's a huge challenge to understand. The patterns that you see are there at all of the different … [Read more...]
Bringing green documentaries to Cape Town
The Cape Town Eco Film Festival will take place at the Labia Theatre on Orange Street in Cape Town from Thursday the 27th of March to Monday the 31st of March. This inaugural event is the first of what will hopefully become a vibrant, annual festival that brings the best local and international documentary films focusing on environmental issues to Cape Town. The Festival … [Read more...]
Addicted to FUEL
FUEL is a comprehensive and entertaining look at energy in America: a history of where the country has been been, their present predicament and a solution to their dependence on foreign oil. Rousing and reactionary, FUEL is an amazing, in-depth, personal journey of oil use and abuse as it examines wide-ranging energy solutions other than oil, the faltering US auto and petroleum … [Read more...]
One Man, One Cow, One Planet - Review
This is a multi-award winning documentary film about practical “closed loop” thinking. But what does that mean? In a closed loop system there is no such thing as waste. All the outputs from the system go back into the system, waste from one part of the system is food for another part. But no Waste… that’s impossible! Are there any examples of this working anywhere? Plenty, and … [Read more...]
A River Runs Through Us
International Rivers is proud to announce our new 22-minute movie on the movement to protect rivers and rights. It was made by an independent filmmaker from Mexico, and filmed mostly at the "Rivers for Life" meeting of activists that took place in Mexico in October. 'Rivers are life' is the unifying theme motivating activists in the global movement to protect rivers from … [Read more...]
Dirty Business, Clean World
Dirt! The Movie is one of the most powerful, influential and important documentaries I have ever seen. Of all the planets in the known universe, only Earth has a living, breathing "skin" formed over the course of countless millennia. Our entire world is dependent on the health of our dirt, and it is safe to say that we don't even consider dirt and soil - it's probably at … [Read more...]
Food Fore-Thought - Helen Hoekstra
A new documentary, Food Fore-Thought (an IZWA production), sets out to open our eyes to the broad scope of possibilities around the growing and production of the food we eat. It also enlightens the viewer about the need to stand up for one of our most basic human rights - the right to safe, nutritious food that heals, and harms none. There is an increase in the number of … [Read more...]
WATER - The Great Mystery
`Water is the driving force of all nature.`- Leonardo da Vinci Water - the most common substance on earth. It is with us every moment of everyday, but do we know the secrets of this amazing element. From agriculture, to factories and hydropower, we put water to work in a million different ways every day. And yet water acts outside all known physical laws of nature. At a time … [Read more...]
