Country of origin Australia No. of series 2 First episode date 1989 Number of episodes 7 Language English | Original language(s) English No. of episodes 7 Final episode date 1993 Genre Documentary film Number of series 2 | |
Written by Tony Gailey
Julian Russell Directed by Tony Gailey
Julian Russell | ||
Visionaries: Small Solutions to Enormously Large Problems is an Australian television series of documentary films written and directed by Tony Gailey and Julian Russell. Each of the seven films examines the work of a living person who is a revolutionary thinker in their field. What the subjects have in common is a creative contribution to humanity that has the potential to elicit a paradigm shift. They either apply a pragmatic conceptual framework for addressing global socioeconomic problems, or a radical scientific model for understanding a system.
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The Australian Broadcasting Corporation premiered Visionaries in 1989; Channel 4 in the United Kingdom began transmitting the series in the following year.
Although various distributors have published every film in the series on VHS home video, few of the films have been published on DVD. Bullfrog Films distributes, for example, Midwives… Lullabies… and Mother Earth (DVD, VHS) and Quest for Life: A Year with Petrea King (VHS),