Eco Film Festival: The Man Who Wanted to Change the World

The South African Eco Film Festival returns to The Bioscope in 2018.

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/

Tickets: R50

The Man Who Wanted to Change the World (2016)

Directed by: Mariette Faber

Documentary

90min

African-born artist, Peter Westerveld, claims he has developed a solution to combat desertification and ultimately climate change. His designs for restoring the water cycles in Africa are unlike any organization has embarked on before, let alone a single man. But in Peter's mind there is no doubt that he can heal the land. He is quarrelsome and his ideas are controversial. Despite being ridiculed he relentlessly pursues his dream for a green and drought-resistant world.