Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems

Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems

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.

Seasons

1. In Grave Danger of Falling Food

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Bill Mollison demonstrates permaculture and discusses its implementation for food security.

2. Barefoot Economist

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Manfred Max Neef and "barefoot economics"

3. The Man Who Named the World

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James Lovelock and the Gaia hypothesis

4. Declaration of a Heretic

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Jeremy Rifkin on how science and technology affect society

5. Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth

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Michel Odent's work championing midwifery, home birth, natural childbirth, and the needs of newborns and mothers.

6. Quest for Life: A Year with Petrea King

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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.

7. Democratic Allsorts

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Frances Moore Lappé describes how the economically powerful control people by engineering food scarcity.

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Rating

8.0/10

Release Date

Episodes

7 (1 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Videos