SES Film of the Month - October 2025

Описание: Reza Pakravan won our 2019 Neville Shulman Explorer Award for Expedition Filmmaking for his 'The Great Green Hope' expedition in Africa.

This is the resulting film...

Reza is an explorer and filmmaker from London, who has dedicated the last few years of his career to documenting the impact of environmental issues on indigenous people. While filming the tribes of Lake Chad Reza came across the reality of the life-and-death consequences that climate change has wrought upon the Sahelian region in the south of the Sahara, where desertification has contributed to the greatest internal migration ever witnessed on this planet. But he found hope there too. The people of the Sahel have come together to grow an 8000km Great Green Wall made up of thousands of trees to stop desertification and to bring life back to the Sahel.

Reza is returned to the Sahel to document how this pan-African ambition is improving Africa’s degraded landscapes, providing food security, jobs and a reason to stay for the millions who live along its path. His expedition started in Dakar, Senegal, and in Berbera, Somaliland. The impact of climate change and the ensuing desertification across eight countries across the Sahelian belt were documented. These countries are on the front line for climate change and temperatures are rising more than anywhere else on this Earth. By involving organisations, including the UN, Kew Gardens, and governmental agencies in various countries, Reza increased our understanding of the most neglected region on earth and documented the battle of man against our most urgent threat: climate change.

Supported by Neville Shulman CBE.