MOTHER CITY

From its inception, we wanted Mother City to be a cinematically beautiful and journalistically hard hitting story about an extraordinary group of activists in Cape Town. Simultaneously we wanted to make a documentary that will hold up a mirror to our society in order to spark conversation and debate.

We dreamt that our documentary would change people's minds, their imaginations and one day, influence policy. We dreamt that Mother City will spark a revolution: the kind of revolution where city officials are moved to bravery and courage and actually take seriously their constitutional obligation to act deliberately and provide houses for the hundreds of thousands homeless people in South Africa.

Mother City as a tool for impact and activism, is intrinsically part of our story. Not only do we want to show Mother City to every "occupier" and "back yarder" living in informal corrugated iron and wooden houses all over our country, but we want to show our film to students and academics; to politicians and town planners; to builders, property developers and architects.

We plan to harness the power of a well-told and engaging story to run an impact campaign that aligns with the objectives of activists in the film, but we also have some broader objectives that go beyond the borders of South Africa. We list below a breakdown of our goals and strategy for impact.