Ronit’s career spans more than twenty five years in marketing, communications, event production and project management. Ronit headed global marketing and branding projects in both public and private organisations and had her own event and marketing consultancy which focused on initiatives relating to the well-being of people and the environment. In 2011 Ronit founded One Nature Films with a vision to create high quality social impact films. She is a self-taught filmmaker and gained experience as an independent producer, executive producer, researcher, screenwriter and director. Her debut feature-length film 'Sisters of the Wilderness' premiered in June 2018 and won Best South African Feature Documentary at the Durban International Film Festival and qualified for an Oscar consideration. The film is the foundation for an outreach and audience engagement programme that will use multiple communication platforms to raise awareness, inspire, communicate and engage audiences worldwide. The project key impact goals are:
• Young people empowerment and leadership development, using the power of wild nature.
• Special focus on women empowerment.
• Re-connect audiences to wild nature and raise awareness to the value of nature to our well-being.
• Help in the efforts to save the iMfolozi wilderness from the threat of illegal hunting and unsustainable mining.
Sisters of the Wilderness will be screened at the University of Bristol as part of Wildscreen's Outreach Programme on October 18th at 18:45. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Ronit.