The New Heroes
Hosted by Robert Redford, “The New Heroes” tells the dramatic stories of daring social entrepreneurs who are undaunted by the chronic challenges of poverty, illness, unemployment, violence and ignorance they see in the world around them. These individuals have a revolutionary passion for identifying and solving large-scale social problems. Unlike traditional business entrepreneurs, their mission is to generate social value, not wealth. For social entrepreneurs, the bottom line is measured in lives.
Actual Films produced four segments for this series, profiling the work of Tete Leal (directed by Camille Servant-Schreiber) in Brazil, Albina Ruiz (directed & photographed by Jon Shenk) in Peru, Sompop Janktraka (directed by Bonni Cohen) in Thailand, and Mimi Silbert (directed by Bonni Cohen, photographed by Jon Shenk) in San Francisco.
EP 1- Dreams of Sanctuary - Child labor in South Asia, former addicts in San Francisco, AIDS orphans in Zambia.
EP 2- Technology of Freedom - Compassionate capitalists create self‑sustaining business enterprises.
EP 3- Power of Enterprise - “Banker to the poor” in Bangladesh, sewing cooperative in Rio de Janeiro, garbage micro-enterprise in Peru.
EP 4- The Power of Knowledge - School on Indian train platforms, disabled children in Egypt, school for girls in Thailand.
