She is in the process of making another two.
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Morehill resident found her passion in film making
Waner released To Wake Buddhi, which premiered online on April 22.
The documentary, which is aimed at educating people about forest fires, was showcased at the Ekotopfilm Festival in Prague in the Czech Republic earlier this year.
“I was honoured to attend and represent as the only South African,” said the leading social and environmental awareness documentarian of Intent Conscious Media.
To Wake Buddhi was placed in the Children Perspective Category and made it into the top five.
The documentary was such a success that it has been further nominated for one national and 17 international festivals.
“The aftermath of To Wake Buddhi in Himachal Pradesh Himalayas has been a great success,” said Waner.
“It’s a means of educating children and empowering women to become more conscious of the trees around them and questions the consequences that an entire village’s actions has on nature.”
But Intent Conscious Media is not stopping there.
“Our two new Intent Conscious Media ventures are in the field research phase, which is a fundamental narrative stage as research is very important,” Waner said.
“Producing a documentary is very seldom point-and-shoot.
“Most cases have a lengthy pre-production, which I feel is the foundation for a documentary of moral.”
The two documentaries will be entitled Pickers and Robing Giants.
Waner said Pickers is about a journey filled with hope and change in a very unlikely world, a world like no other that belongs to a trash-picking community in Ekurhuleni.
“I wish to shed light on the true benefits of this inspiring and enriching community through their trying daily acts of picking and recycling,” Waner explained.
“These communities live and create a purpose in a world that has lost its purpose, junk.”
Robing Giants was founded while producing To Wake Buddhi in honour of Janisha Marchal, the star and ambassador of the Buddhi Janisha Foundation.
“The foundation is dedicated to showcasing and supporting all causes explored within the documentary,” Waner said.
“These causes are forest fires, deforestation, climate change, species loss and abuse, conservation, women and children empowerment as well as disabilities found in children within remote areas, such as Janisha.”
The story introduces the viewer to an organisation named Wildlife SOS, which has a record of saving abused animals in India, especially sloth bears and Asian elephants.
Pickers will be released on April 22, 2018 (Earth Day), and Robing Giants will be released in 2019.
“Both projects are also in the stages of receiving financial support within donations, sponsorship and grants,” the Morehill resident said.
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