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Welcome to
Greater Good Productions

We aspire to be the leading edge of quality entertainment, using powerful stories and visual techniques to explore solutions to the challenges facing the world today.

From documentary to fictional narrative, our goal is to move you. Great storytelling and visual expression are more important now than ever before. Our passion is telling stories that matter. Stories that compel action, build empathy and transport your mind to places it has never been.

Our mission is to create and distribute compelling cinema, television and digital media that empowers and inspires people to improve their own lives and the communities in which they live. To make films that can touch people’s hearts and inspire action that changes the world for the Greater Good.

Wild Zambezi is a new series documenting the fight to protect one of Africa’s most precious natural treasures. Our first project is an 8-part documentary series, which shines a raw and colourful spotlight on the Lower Zambezi National Park in Zambia, and the biggest threat the park has ever faced, setting a terrifying precedent for all of Africa’s National Parks and protected wilderness areas.

Wild Zambezi

A documentary series highlighting the threat to Africa’s last wilderness areas that sets a precedent for our future.
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Wild Zambezi:
THE STORY

The battle for our world’s last nature strongholds has begun

Wild Zambezi is a documentary series that showcases the conservation efforts in Lower Zambezi National Park and its surrounding Game Management Areas, but the proposed Kangaluwi Copper Mine by Mwembeshi Resources Ltd threatens the park and its conservation efforts, as well as wildlife across Africa. The series highlights the LZ REDD+ project and its sustainable alternatives for local communities. The ecosystem and its components are interconnected, and this series aims to engage international audiences to understand the fragility of the park and the need to protect it.

The 48-minute, 8 episode series “Wild Zambezi” highlights the conservation efforts in the Lower Zambezi National Park and its surrounding Game Management Areas.
The series focuses on the positive impact of education, training, and sustainable livelihood projects on local communities, supported by Conservation Lower Zambezi, BCP’s REDD+ project, and other organizations.
The proposed Kangaluwi Copper Mine by Mwembeshi Resources Ltd is a threat to the park and its conservation efforts, as well as the Mpanshye Wildlife Corridor and wildlife across Africa.
The root cause of deforestation is tied to economic and social disparities, but sustainable alternatives through the LZ REDD+ project and its livelihood programs, such as Eco-Charcoal and Sustainable Beekeeping, are provided to communities.
The LZ REDD+ project has been verified 9 times and protects over 565,102 trees, benefiting 36,000 households.
The ecosystem and its components, including humans, are interconnected, and the destruction of one element will have a domino effect.
The series aims to emotionally engage international audiences to fall in love with the park and understand the need to protect it, as the future of all African National Parks hangs in the balance.

Wild Zambezi:
THE PROJECT

A documentary series highlighting the threat to Africa’s last wilderness areas that sets a precedent for our future.

Directed by Daron Chatz & Grace Harrison

As a team we are in a unique position to tell this story. Our Co-Directors, Daron Chatz and Grace Harrison, have been working together for 10 years, and each bring their own skills and value to the project. Grace has been going to the Lower Zambezi National Park for 20 years and has a deep connection with the place, and its people. She also comes from a family with a history in Copper Mining, which gives her a diverse and unique perspective.

We believe this series will appeal to wide global audience. We want it to reach as broad an audience as possible. We will donate a percentage of the project revenue to Conservation Lower Zambezi.

We completed principal photography by the end of October, 2022.

We want to take this series to market as soon as possible as the park’s plight is real and urgent.

This is the moment in history where the future of all wilderness parks is decided.

We Are Greater Good Productions

We Are
Greater Good Productions

Founders:
Grace Harrison & Daron Chatz

Grace Harrison is a passionate visual story-teller, with a BA(hons) degree in Design & Art Direction, She has been producing commercial photography and film content for TV, web and print for 10 years, having come from 5 years’ experience in the Magazine Industry as an Art Director.
After leaving the print in 2010, she worked under her mentor Daron Chatz for 5 years, moving her experience in lighting and composition from photography into the realm of film by starting with short-form promotional film products, music videos as a director, editor 
In 2016, she broke into the TV industry and landed her first Director of Photography role on Hustle, a 26-episode 1-hour-long TV series for SA’s ETV, directed by Jahmil Qubeka. In 2017, Grace worked as Camera-operator on a 10-episode series for Via called Veld Tot Vurk , before going on to DOP and operate camera and pull focus on SABC’s Telenovella Keeping Score.
Grace has since worked on a number of projects for both web and TV, also choosing to focus more on the documentary side of film in the last 3 years. She has a passion for story telling and expressing meaningful stories that entertain and educate audiences.
Grace has an eye for detail and a passion for emotionally connecting to her audiences.She believes strongly in the power of film to touch and inspire minds and hearts, actively seeks out projects that have potential to change the world for the better.
“In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.” Baba Dioum
Daron Chatz is a creative who is compelled with the art of visual expression in all forms. His skills range from photography and film to creative directing, post production and inventing.
He began his career in the late 80’s in the South African film industry, he then went on to assist Nick Boutlon in the professional photography industry where he received a wealth of knowledge from an exceptional teacher. A few years later Daron went on to start his own photography career.
Daron did well to establish himself as a top fashion, décor and advertising photographer in South Africa and abroad. The exciting expansion from there was back into motion picture lighting and then into filming, and soon daron was a well-respected DOP. He was then approached and offered his first TV commercials and so began his journey as a director.
Daron produced and directed commercials, TV and film, which then saw the birth of his JHB based production and post production companies. Around this time, Daron mentored now well-known and acclaimed film maker Jahmil XT Qubeka into the industry and they became business partners. Daron went on to service industry leaders across both television and film. At the same time, he was growing as a photographer.
His passion for storytelling and his sensitive attention to detail is very apparent in all of his work. Daron has an advanced technical understanding and his finger on the pulse of technology in this rapidly growing landscape. His combined creative and technical abilities make him very versatile and quite unique.
Aside from servicing ad agencies, magazines, tourism bodies, hotel groups, film distributors, corporates and TV channels he has a massive interest in giving back and contributing to the greater good. In his own words “I am blessed with an abundance of talents and skills, and absolutely see this as an opportunity to touch people’s hearts and make a difference.”
Daron  now has a major focus on long form  content and has directed and shot various multi part series projects. “Since I was a child I have always wanted to be a long form story teller, and the opportunity to reach massive global audiences have opened up in such a beautiful way that my time is now for doccies, doccie series and films”, states Daron.

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