Original title
Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems
Released
-
Origin country
AU
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
7
An anthology series of seven documentary films written and directed by Tony Gailey and Julian Russell. Each piece 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—either by addressing global socioeconomic problems, or providing a radical scientific model to understanding a complex system.
Bill Mollison demonstrates permaculture and discusses its implementation for food security.
Manfred Max Neef and "barefoot economics"
James Lovelock and the Gaia hypothesis
Jeremy Rifkin on how science and technology affect society
Michel Odent's work championing midwifery, home birth, natural childbirth, and the needs of newborns and mothers.
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.
Frances Moore Lappé describes how the economically powerful control people by engineering food scarcity.
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