Mary McCall Jr was a hit screenwriter who transformed her industry; Dr Meg Lowman AKA ‘Einstein of the Treetops’; Vusi Mdoyi took a South African street dance to the global stage.
Mary McCall Jr’s film career was devastated by the Red Scare and a scandalous romance. Before she was blacklisted, she was a hit screenwriter who partied with Bette Davis while working as a union organiser and transforming the US film industry.
Dr Meg Lowman is known as an arbonaut, an astronaut of the treetops. Her intense ion for nature at an early age has resulted in a long career studying trees. Being a woman in science has never been easy, something that 'Canopy Meg' wants to see changed.
Vusi Mdoyi dances 'pantsula' which was born in the townships of South Africa. For him it brings joy, but it had never been seen as an art form. Inspired to become a choreographer, he wanted to give this dance global recognition.
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