The Cape Town Eco Film Festival has compiled a great line-up of short and feature-length films covering a range of environmental topics. The event will showcase documentaries, with the aim of educating South Africans on environmental issues to inspire positive change.

The Two Oceans Aquarium is honoured to be featured in this line-up. We are the subject of a short film called A Wave Ahead, which explains our latest collaboration with Project 90x2030, a non-governmental organisation that encourages South Africans to change their lifestyles by 90% by the year 2030, by lowering their carbon footprint, switching to renewable energy and being mindful of the environment.

Our Technical Manager, Mike de Maine, worked with Project 90x2030 to dream up an ingenious wave turbine that produces clean, renewable energy out of the waves that are generated from the Ocean Basket Kelp Forest Exhibit.

Producer Hin Wah was here to document the project.

“What we wanted to do with this film is to capture and share with people innovative and sustainable solutions – they are here, they are local,” she told Sustainable.co.za. “There are many exciting and fun initiatives that are happening, and because a lot of the innovation happens behind the scenes, not many people are aware of them. The film was our way of bringing the back stage to the centre stage and sharing that with as many people as possible.”

A Wave Ahead will be screened along with the feature-length documentary, Thin Ice – watch the trailer below:

Here’s the full programme:

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