Congratulations to Alan Dater and Lisa Merton whose inspirational film Taking Root about Kenyan Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai has its PBS broadcast on April the 14th on Independent Lens. In response to rural women's problems stemming from a degraded environment, Maathai suggested they plant trees. Starting with this simple act, these women worked successively against deforestation, poverty, and violent political oppression until they became a political force that helped to bring down Kenya's 24-year dictatorship. TAKING ROOT follows Maathai's courageous thirty-year journey to safeguard the environment, democracy and peace. There has been great media interest in Maathai who is currently on a book tour in the US for her new book Challenge for Africa. CNN International is also profiling the visionary leader in their "Revealed Series" - "Wangari Maathai Revealed". The first segment of the video also features footage of the film-makers revealing the finished film to Wangari for the first time.