One Water (documentary)

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One Water
A Global Film About Our Changing Relationship to Water
Directed bySanjeev Chatterjee, Ali Habashi
Written bySanjeev Chatterjee
Produced bySanjeev Chatterjee
Edited byAli Habashi
Music byThomas Sleeper
Release date
  • February 22, 2008 (2008-02-22)
Running time
68 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

One Water is a 2008 documentary film directed by Sanjeev Chatterjee and Ali Habashi. The film premiered at the 2008 Miami International Film Festival on 22 February 2008.

Film

One Water is a collaborative project initiated in 2003 at the University of Miami between the School of Communication, College of Engineering and the Frost School of Music to address the global freshwater crisis. At the heart of the project was the motion picture One Water.

An early short version of the picture was screened at the 12th and 13th sessions of the UN

Robert Kennedy Jr., Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Oscar Olivera, among others.[2] Donna Shalala, president of the University of Miami
, also appears in the film as narrator.

The original score for One Water was recorded in Moscow by the Russian National Orchestra.

In 2006, One Water received major support from the

John S. and James L. Knight Foundationas
part of its establishment of the Knight Center for International Media at the School of Communication, University of Miami.

The central idea behind the project was the making of a documentary that would spark the creation of further media on the subject of water around the world. Toward this goal, a partnership with San Francisco-based

Independent Television Service (ITVS) would create four nationally broadcast films on water in four countries (Bahrain, Colombia, India and South Africa). These films will be broadcast in these countries around World Water Day
(22 March 2009). This partnership has also launched the International Water Journalism website 1h2o.org that is receiving water related multimedia articles produced by journalists around the world.

In early 2009, an international television version of the film was created with a script written by Sanjeev Chatterjee and narrated by Hollywood star

Planet Green
in August 2010.

In 2016, the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and UN-Water commissioned director Sanjeev Chatterjee to create a short version on One Water featuring multiple winners of the Water Prize that is awarded each year by SIWI. This version of One Water was screened at the Water Prize celebrations in Stockholm in 2016.

Theme

One Water assesses the deficiency of potable, safe water on a global scale. The movie highlights how communities across the world are dramatically suffering from a lack of our most valuable resource, thanks to drought, pollution and other factors. It becomes apparent that although this issue demands an immediate, workable solution, the problem is not easily resolved. The filmmakers also discuss the vitality of water on parallel spiritual and physical levels.

Water crisis

Main article: Water security
See also:
Water law, Water right, and Water politics

A 2006 United Nations report stated that "there is enough water for everyone", but that access to it is hampered by mismanagement and corruption.[3]

The

waterborne diseases (related to the consumption of contaminated water) or drought. In 2004, the UK charity WaterAid
reported that a child dies every 15 seconds from easily preventable water-related diseases.

Selected awards

Other selected screenings

  • INFOBAE – IV Pan-American Internet Communication Encounter, 9 December 2008, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, October 15–11 November 2008, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
  • Vancouver International Film Festival, September 25–10 October 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
  • Highway Africa Conference, Rhodes University, September 2008, Grahamstown, South Africa.
  • Salzburg Academy for Media and Global Change, August 2008, Salzburg, Austria.
  • International Forum of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) Organic World Congress, June 18–20, 2008, Modena, Italy.
  • Expo Zaragoza, June 14–14 September 2008, Zaragoza, Spain.
  • Miami International Film Festival, 22 February 2008, Miami, Florida.

See also

References

  1. ^ Miami Film Festival Gallery, February 2008
  2. ^ Water in Peril, The Miami Herald, 8 March 2008
  3. ^ UNESCO. (2006). Water, a shared responsibility. The United Nations World Water Development Report 2.

External links

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