Genre: Environment/Social Director/s: Chiara Andrich & Giovanni Pellegrini Runtime: 52' & 68' Country/s: Italy Year: 2015 Producer/s: Lucia Gotti Venturato & Valerio Moretti Language/s: English, Spanish IMDB: https://pro-labs.imdb.com/title/tt2781504 Festivals: Winner Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary. Environmental Film Festival Australia 2015
Official Selection. Locarno Int'l Film Festival 2015
Winner Human Rights Audience Award. San Sebastian Int'l Film
Winner Visioni Italiane Bologna D.E.R. Award 2015
Winner Eugonea Film Festival 2014
Official Selection. Locarno Int'l Film Festival 2015
Winner Human Rights Audience Award. San Sebastian Int'l Film
Winner Visioni Italiane Bologna D.E.R. Award 2015
Winner Eugonea Film Festival 2014
Logline
To have electricity in your home is a human right and women from poor villages from Third World countries learn in India how to make sure that everyone will have it.
Synopsis
Illiterate women from villages around the world with no electricity learn how to make solar panels in India. Without learning experience and English language skills, they are determined to master the new technology. Those who have completed the course in India have returned to their villages and brought the sun home to more than 350,000 people around the world.
