David Harper from the University of Leicester dropped me a line this week. He is an aquatic ecologist who works with film-makers and local communities to produce documentaries on biodiversity conservation.
One film-maker that David works closely with is Richard Brock, who launched the Brock Initiative which seeks to use “archive of footage, and to ask others to do the same, to create new programs, not made for a general TV audience, but made for those who are really connected to the situation in hand.”
Together they produced a documentary about Lake Naivasha in Kenya, entitled “A Lake on the Edge.” It is accessible via Youtube and can be viewed below.
They have an exciting new project funded by the UK Darwin Initiative, to make films with local communities about Biodiversity Conservation in Kenya and Tanzania and a smaller project developing biodiversity conservation education material for Indonesia which will produce 3 films. The film-making in both is being done people who have studied with Richard.
It is time that we start looking for ways to connect up and further expand these kinds of initiatives. Now if you have the time, please watch the documentary.
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