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 |
| Composer | Derek Williams (Ep.1) |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 7 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 53 minutes (approx.) |
| Production company | 220 Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| Release | 1989 – 1993 |
| Related | |
| 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] The series was produced by 220 Productions with funding from Film Finance Corporation Australia.
The individual films have been published on VHS home video and, in some cases, DVD.
Episodes[edit]
| No. in series | Title | Original air date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "In Grave Danger of Falling Food" | 1989 | |
| Bill Mollison demonstrates permaculture and discusses its implementation for food security. | |||
| 2 | "Barefoot Economist" | 1989 | |
| Manfred Max Neef and "barefoot economics" | |||
| 3 | "The Man Who Named the World" | 1990 | |
| James Lovelock and the Gaia hypothesis | |||
| 4 | "Declaration of a Heretic" | 1990 | |
| Jeremy Rifkin on how science and technology affect society | |||
| 5 | "Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth" | 1993 | |
| This film explores Michel Odent's work championing midwifery, home birth, natural childbirth, and the needs of newborns and mothers.[3] It won the Silver Apple award at the National Educational Film & Video Festival in Oakland, California.[4] | |||
| 6 | "Quest for Life: A Year with Petrea King" | 1993 | |
| 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.[5] | |||
| 7 | "Democratic Allsorts" | 1993 | |
| Frances Moore Lappé describes how the economically powerful control people by engineering food scarcity. | |||
References[edit]
- ^ "Julian Russell". abc.net.au. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ^ "Visionaries". BFI Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ^ Baldwin Dancy, Rahima (22 June 1995). "Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth". Special Delivery. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ^ "Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth". Bullfrog Films. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ^ "Quest for Life: A Year with Petrea King". Bullfrog Films. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
