UNTIL THE LAST DROP
It is a film about rivers and people, their relationship and interconnectedness.
The documentary exposes the global cost and consequences of the destruction of nature "in the name of progress". Rivers have been especially badly hit.
The film is shot on location) in Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Albania, and Poland. It conveys a strong message about one of the greatest threats to human civilization: the growing freshwater crisis.
It tells a story of despair and desperation but also one of determination and hope
The film reveals how irresponsible and ill-considered human activity makes us one of the leading causes of the freshwater crisis. But it shows we can also be part of its solution and tells the inspiring story of how people are fighting until the last drop to protect rivers across the world.
The film addresses the issue of the growing freshwater crisis. It is a universal challenge currently faced by all of us. The target group should be as wide as possible. Everybody should watch it. But especially decision-makers who are in charge of freshwater resources management.
Credits and Cast
Director: Ewa Ewart
Writer: Ewa Ewart
Writer: Piotr Nieznański
Producer: Wiesław Łysakowski Łysakowski - ORIENT FILM
Executive Producer: Keith Bowers
Unit Manager: Aleksandra Maniewska
Director of Photography: Mateusz Kruszelnicki Kruszelnicki
Editor: Robert Ciodyk PSM
Music: Szymon Nidzworski
Sound: Paweł Machnowski
Dron Pictures Photography: Wiktor Strumiłło
Director: Ewa Ewart
Ewa Ewart is a journalist and an award-winning filmmaker who specialises in ground breaking and influential documentaries.
She was born and raised in Poland, but she has spent most of her career based at the BBC TV in London, England.
She has travelled and worked in many countries, producing and directing programmes ranging from investigations, political to social observational documentaries.
Her films have revealed new information about issues such as corruption in Boris Yeltsin’s Russia, the secret prison camps in North Korea, civil war in Colombia or secret and illegal CIA extraordinary rendition programme for people suspected of terrorism.
Her documentaries told some of the most memorable stories like the tragedy in Beslan, made for the first anniversary of a terrorist attack in which more than 170 children got killed. In the second film she highlighted the trauma still suffered by many child survivors five years after the atrocity.
For the last few years she has been the presenter of an international documentary strand on TVN24 and TVN24Bis, American owned commercial channels in Poland.
Most recently she has been a motivational speaker talking to varied audiences about her experiences, which she described in a book “ I witnessed”