Ubuntu Productions invites members of the advocacy community, media and the general public to a pre-release screening of Capturing Water, an 80-minute feature-length documentary film directed by Rehad Desai, of Miners Shot Down (2014), How to Steal a Country (2019) and Everything Must Fall (2019).
Event Details:
- Date: Saturday, 30 November
- Venue: Cine Centre , Killarney Mall
- Time: screening starts at 4pm, please arrive no later 3.30 pm
The film highlights three organised struggles. You will meet working class activists, bravely mobilising against water restriction devices and water privatisation; an activist farmer litigating to stop city plans to cement over an aquifer that provides affordable food to thousands of people; and a suburban activist tirelessly engaging a city that makes decades of empty promises to stop the sewage flowing into life-giving wetlands. Connecting the water bodies across the city and featuring the City’s views on its infrastructure and water provision responsibilities, the film brings fresh insights into activism and hope and challenges narratives around the myths of Day Zero, a story that is gaining international traction for global ‘solutions’ to cities elsewhere under threat of running out of water.
There will be a short panel discussion that follows, led by water activists and moderated by Ferial Adam that will focus on the role of community-based organisations and their allies in confronting the water crisis in Johannesburg.
To confirm your attendance, please RSVP by filling out this form or simply click on the poster. This is an invite-only event.
For organisations interested in block bookings, kindly email at uhuruwater@gmail.com.
Capturing Water explores critical issues of water justice and inequality, we are excited to partner with the UJ Centre for Social Change to bring this important film to the screen.