With recent attention on global warming, there’s been a big focus on the problem, but what about the solutions?

The Future Makers documentary tells the story of key Australians leading the way on the world stage in renewable energy. Some are designing a future based on models in nature. Others are creating a sustainable energy model for a 21st century economy. People creating solutions that won’t cost the earth.

Directed by Maryella Hatfield, and co-produced with Lisa Duff and Krissoula Syrmis, The Future Makers recently had its world television premiere on Discovery Channel’s Planet Green programming block. To find out more, visit the Future Makers website or preview the film at youtube.com/user/thefuturemakers1.

Watch the film at Powershift

The film will be screening at 4.45pm – 6.00pm, Saturday 11 July in room number PA-EA.G.1.18 (Lecture Theatre 01), the University of Western Sydney (Parramatta campus). Q and A panel will follow with director Maryella Hatfield, Dr Mark Diesendorf, Professor Graham Morrison, Leah Callon Butler and Karl Morrison from Endless Solar.

“This is a fantastic, inspiring documentary. All politicians and the media should consider this compulsory viewing. Australia has so much to gain when it comes to embracing renewable energy”.
Leon Young, Change 2

“The power of Maryella Hatfield’s documentary is to corral (the scientists together). The future-makers’ collective might send a chill through the coal industry, which they consider a 19th-century relic on its last gasp. This isn’t Green Left Weekly talking but hard-nosed scientists getting down to the competitive business of making energy in the 21st century.

Rick Feneley, The Sydney Morning Herald (link)

“It’s a great doco. As I was watching it, I felt inspired by the fact that so much amazing technology was being developed right here in Australia. Until funding dropped away, Australia was a world leader in photovoltaic technolgy – that’s solar panels. And we’re right up with the rest of the world in developing wave power and solar thermal power. We’re also far advanced in geothermal technology, otherwise known as “hot rocks”.

Sara Phillips, G Magazine (link)

The Future Makers goes to air again on Discovery at 8.30am Sunday 12 July.