Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems | |
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Genre | Documentary film |
Written by | Tony Gailey Julian Russell |
Directed by | Tony Gailey Julian Russell |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 7 |
Production | |
Running time | 53 minutes (approx.) |
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Original network | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
Original release | 1989 – 1993 |
Chronology | |
Related shows | Global Gardener |
Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems is an Australian television series of documentary films written and directed by Tony Gailey and Julian Russell. Each of the seven films 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. They either apply a pragmatic conceptual framework for addressing global socioeconomic problems, or a radical scientific model for understanding a system.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation premiered Visionaries in 1989; Channel 4 in the United Kingdom began transmitting the series in the following year.
Although various distributors have published every film in the series on VHS home video, few of the films have been published on DVD. Bullfrog Films distributes, for example, Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth (DVD, VHS) and Quest for Life: A Year with Petrea King (VHS),