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Tune into Cape Town TV (channel 263 on DStv) this Thursday, December 5th, at 18:30, to watch the first national broadcast of our SAFTA award-winning short documentary, The Water Dancers. Three additional broadcasts of the film will follow throughout December.

Watch the official trailer for The Water Dancers documentary, coming to DStv December 5th.

Fresh on the heels of our European tour with the Academie des Cesar - which saw screenings across 21 cities and 12 countries in Europe and Mexico - The Water Dancers returns to South Africa for its first national broadcast on Cape Town-based community television channel, CTV. The Water Dancers is a 25-minute documentary from the University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University about the sentinel messenger of the environment, the dragonfly. The film won a Golden Horn award at the 13th annual South African Film & Television Awards (SAFTAS) in March. The Water Dancers looks to the small things to solve our biggest ecological problems

Robyn Palmer (Director) with Erin Macpherson and Michael Dawson (Editors), at the South African Film & Television Awards.

We are very happy to be partnering with Cape Town TV - whose mission it is to “provide community access to the powerful medium of television as a tool to promote human rights, social justice and community cultural development” - to engage the wider Cape Town populace on the ecological issues unfolding on their doorsteps. This broadcast forms part of The Water Dancer’s broader community impact campaign, #TheSmallThingsMatter, which you can learn more about here.

In August, Director Robyn Palmer and Editor Erin Macpherson took to SABC3’s talk show, Afternoon Express, to spread the message of the small things and chat to host, Jeannie Dee, about what makes dragonflies so important. If you missed it, you can watch the full interview on our website, or below.

The Water Dancers features on Afternoon Express. Watch the interview with Robyn Palmer and Erin Macpherson.

Here are our broadcast times for December:

• Thursday 5th, 18:30
• Monday 16th, 21:30
• Friday 27th, 18:00
• Sunday 29th, 14:30

Tune into Cape Town TV, channel 263 on DStv to learn why #TheSmallThingsMatter.

Warm regards,

The Water Dancers Team