Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems
| Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary film |
| Written by |
Tony Gailey Julian Russell |
| Directed by |
Tony Gailey Julian Russell |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 53 minutes (approx.) |
| Production company(s) | |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Original run | 1989 – 1993 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Global Gardener |
Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems is an Australian television series of documentary films written and directed by Tony Gailey and Julian Russell.[1] Each of the seven films examines the work of a living person who is a revolutionary thinker in their field. What the subjects have in common is a creative contribution to humanity that has the potential to elicit a paradigm shift. They either apply a pragmatic conceptual framework for addressing global socioeconomic problems, or a radical scientific model for understanding a system.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation premiered Visionaries in 1989; Channel 4 in the United Kingdom began transmitting the series in the following year.[2]
Although various distributors have published every film in the series on VHS home video, few of the films have been published on DVD. Bullfrog Films distributes, for example, Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth (DVD, VHS)[3] and Quest for Life: A Year with Petrea King (VHS),[4]
Series one (1989–90)
- In Grave Danger of Falling Food
- Bill Mollison demonstrates permaculture and discusses its implementation for food security.
- Barefoot Economist
- Manfred Max Neef and "barefoot economics"
- The Man Who Named the World
- James Lovelock and the Gaia hypothesis
- Declaration of a Heretic
- Jeremy Rifkin on how science and technology affect society
Series two (1993)
- Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth
- This film explores Michel Odent's work championing midwifery, home birth, natural childbirth, and the needs of newborns and mothers.[5] It won the Silver Apple award at the National Educational Film & Video Festival in Oakland, California.[3]
- Quest for Life: A Year with Petrea King
- Petrea King is a cancer survivor and founder of the Quest for Life Foundation. After learning how facing death changes a person, she began counseling people diagnosed with terminal illness. The film was honored at the American Psychological Association Film Festival.[4]
- Democratic Allsorts
- Frances Moore Lappé describes how the economically powerful control people by engineering food scarcity.
References
- ↑ "Julian Russell". abc.net.au. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ↑ "Visionaries". BFI Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth". Bullfrog Films. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Quest for Life: A Year with Petrea King". Bullfrog Films. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ↑ Baldwin Dancy, Rahima (22 June 1995). "Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth". Special Delivery. Retrieved 21 October 2013.