Aftertalk with director Rehad Desai and Maarten Gischler

After the screening of Capturing Water, Marieke Eyskoot will be in conversation with the director, Rehad Desai, and expert Maarten Gischler, senior water consultant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This screening is in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Rehad Desai has directed and produced numerous feature length documentaries which have seen international broadcast, theatrical release, festival prizes and critical acclaim. His 2014 film Miners Shot Down has garnered 28 local/international awards including the Camera Justitia award and an International EMMY for documentary (2015). How To Steal A Country follows his prior work, Everything Must Fall, both of which entertainingly illuminate the myriad of challenges South Africa faces and has received wide international distribution. Everything Must Fall internationally premiered at IDFA in November 2018, and garnered 4 awards including best documentary at One World Film Festival, Prague. Time of Pandemics was released in 2022 and continues to be utilised by health advocacy groups. Capturing Water is at Movies that Matter this year for its international premiere.

Maarten Gischler is a water adviser at DGIS in the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He works on water in cities (water from the tap, flood risk, pollution); in international rivers and wetlands such as the Nile and the Niger Rivers; on water as a production and risk factor for agriculture and economic activity more broadly. He shapes and administers aid programs with water utilities, service providers and local governments. In his work he cooperates with other ministries, the World Bank, Civil Society Organisations and with corporations and institutional investors. Maarten joined the Foreign Ministry in 2001 and spent half of his professional career abroad in the Middle East, West Africa and Asia.

Marieke Eyskoot is a sustainable lifestyle expert, author, speaker and presenter. She has worked as a moderator for Dutch Design Week, ASN Bank, Stichting DOEN, Fairtrade International, various ministries, Netflix and many others, and is one of the presenters of the Dutch television programme BinnensteBuiten. Her modern guide This is a Good Guide – for a Sustainable Lifestyle (a bestseller of which 50,000 copies have been published worldwide) is packed with practical and positive tips on fashion, beauty, food, living and travel, which make doing good fun and attainable.

Language: English