After working together on The True Cost, named by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the ten most influential fashion documentaries of the last decade, Eco-Age’s Livia Firth reunites with acclaimed film director Andrew Morgan for The Diamonds of Botswana: the third Fashionscapes film.
Over the past decade, the Fashionscapes documentary series has seen Livia trace the fashion supply chain across continents, looking at factories and fibres, driven by the search to find production that allows the planet to set the limits. The third installment, The Diamonds of Botswana, follows Livia Firth as she learns first-hand about the impact of diamond mining in a country that has unearthed some of the worlds most precious stones. The short-form film, directed by The True Cost director Andrew Morgan, explores whether an industry that is historically contentious can be made to work in favour of people and planet. The documentary features interviews with many different stakeholders – from the president of Botswana himself to the first female Managing Director of a mine and a female truck driver.