Eco Film Fest: Kokota + The Valuable Waste (Double-bill)

The South African Eco Film Festival returns to The Bioscope in 2017.

The film festival’s mission is simply to raise awareness, through the amazing medium of documentary film, of the many pressing environmental issues the planet is facing, and the solutions people are taking to solve them. We hope you will be informed, inspired, challenged, uplifted and entertained by this year’s Festival offerings.

The South African Eco Film Festival is a project of While You Were Sleeping, a non-profit organisation dedicated to bringing documentary films that both entertain and inform with important environmental, social and political messages to South African audiences.

For more info go to: http://saecofilmfestival.com/

KOKOTA (30 mins, Canada 2016)

Tells the story of Mbarouk Mussa Omar from a small East African Island called Pemba. ten years ago he visited a tiny neighbouring islet, Kokota. He was shocked by what he saw. Kokota was teetering towards collapse, climate change and local deforestation were the culprits. He desperately wanted to help Kokota, but what could one poor man from Pemba possibly do? Introducing viewers to a resilient people on the front lines of climate change. How these unlikely heroes have managed to innovatively adapt to a warming climate while reforesting their island is inspirational. The film promises to leave audiences around the world believing that simple solutions really can have huge impacts for change.

THE VALUABLE WASTE (47 mins, Nigeria 2016)

Waste management is a problem everywhere. Across the world human activity continues to create issues for public health and the environment. Now with the cooperation of stakeholders and social groups contributing and participating in managed recycling schemes at a local level a clean and healthy environment seems a possibility through a sustainable development in West Africa.