Shot on location throughout South Africa and narrated by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, this award-winning documentary focuses on the inspiring work of artist/activist Kim Berman. She mobilizes people to use papermaking, printmaking, and embroidery to address HIV/AIDS, poverty alleviation, and the empowerment of women and children across South Africa. At a grass roots level, she has inspired thousands of people, who face great adversity, to live the best lives that they possibly can.

Narrated by acclaimed journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, A Ripple in the Water: Healing Through Art focuses on the work of South African artist/activist Kim Berman, who teaches others to use art as a tool to promote healing and positive social transformation. An active member of the anti-apartheid movement in the 80`s, Berman helped the world community to see what was happening by smuggling incriminating visual footage out of South Africa, at a time when there was a complete media blitz, and being caught was punishable by imprisonment.

Her self-imposed exile in Boston ended the day Mandela was released from prison. Berman answered his call to all South Africans to help in the building of a new democracy by returning home to start a community based learning center for impoverished yet talented young black artist, who otherwise would have been left behind with no resources to join the new mainstream after apartheid ended. She founded Artist Proof Studio in Johannesburg, and her outreach programs grew to include a national grassroots campaign aimed at addressing the HIV/AIDS pandemic through creativity, counseling and solidarity.

Next, to address poverty and its host of related social problems, she spearheaded a network of hand-papermaking/craft projects in 21 urban and rural sites, creating hundreds of jobs, primarily for women, which greatly improved peoples chances for survival while adding a sense of meaning and value to their lives. Filmed across 900 miles of South Africa, including interviews with people of diverse backgrounds and cultures, this documentary examines the human experience by considering how the long-term effects of a nation's brutal history can be overcome by each and every one of us, individually and collectively.

The film tracks the successes and failures of individuals, government organizations, and local projects.
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