First series of Adventure Diva docs out on DVD
September 26th, 2006 by Zsofia
The first 8 episodes in the award-winning PSB series “Adventure Divas” is now out on DVD. US Director Holly Morris originally self-financed the pilot and - weirdly enough -teamed up with her mother to create an inspiring series tracking down artists, activists, and women of action who are changing the the world around them.
In the 8 episodes shot in Cuba, India, New Zealand, and Iran, we meet Assata Shakur, a former Black Panther and social activist and now a fugitive living in exile in Cuba; Kiran Bedi, New Delhi’s chief of police, who revolutionized India’s infamously brutal Tijar Jail with her humanitarian ethic; New Zealand pop star Hinewehi Mohi, a Maori who reinvigorates her native culture for a new generation; and Mokarrameh Ghanbari, a septuagenarian painter and rice farmer who lives in the tiny village of Darikandeh on the Caspian plains of Iran, where her creative talents run counter to the government’s strict stance on art.
Along the way, Morris herself becomes what she calls a certified “Adventure Diva”, as she hunts for wild boar with Penan tribesmen in the jungles of Borneo, climbs the Matterhorn short-roped to a salty fourth-generation Swiss guide, and memorably becomes the first woman ever to enter the traditional camel race of the Saharan oasis town of Timia.
Buy the film from Adventure Divas.
