SYNOPSIS - List of Films selected for Screening at "Voices from the Waters 2007"
Quick Links : Dweepa aka The Island, Bara, Ganashatru, Faecal Attraction, Village of Dust City of Water, Shadows of Tehri, Erosion, Dui Paatan ke Beech Mein (Between The Devil and The Deep River), The Lost Water, Cutting off a Lifeline, Loktak - The Dying lake of Manipur, 1000 Days and a Dream, A River’s Story: The Quest for the Brahmaputra, Gharat, Old Sea and the man, Mountains in the Mist – "Discovering Cloud Forests", The never never water, The life and struggle of Sekou’s exile and return, Zone of initial dilution, Dirty aid Dirty water campaign, Devils water, We corner people, Ganga from the ground up, Water first, Voorland, Window Facing the Sun, Let’s not disturb the water, The Little Republic, Flux us sound, Deserts voice, Captain Planet, Nor any Drop to Drink, Al Otro Lado, The Disappearing of Tuvalu: Trouble in Paradise, Here, The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It, Last Season: Portrait of a Trawler, Out of Balance: ExxonMobil’s Impact on Climate Change, Radio Ñonmdaa: The Word of the Water, Suncookers, Islands, Prospecting, Water and Autonomy.
Film: Dweepa aka The Island.
Director: Girish Kasaravalli
Duration: 100 mins.
Based on the novel with the same title by Norbert D'Souza, Dweepa deals with the raging issue of building dams and the displacement of natives. Located in the backwaters of a dam, Sita Parvata is an island slowly submerging due to the rains. The government succeeds in evacuating the inmates of the island by giving them compensation for the properties they own. The village temple priest Duggajja, his son Ganapa and his daughter in law Nagi find it impossible to leave their homeland and make a living with the meagre compensation given by the government. In Ganapa's own words, the compensation can give them food and shelter, but cannot compensate for the love and respect of their people. On the island, they are important people, but outside, they would be one among hundreds of families struggling to make a living. Centered around this complex theme, the film narrates the struggles of the family and how ultimately in the end they manage to continue life on the island. >>Top
Film: Bara.
Director: M.S. Sathyu
Duration: 140 mins.
The movie is set against the backdrop of a drought hit area. Parched landscape and dying animals greet us in the opening sequence. Satish Chandra (Anant Shankar Nag) is the main protagonist.
Caught between a political enthusiast Bimoji who happens to be a close associate through their fathers and a cigar smoking useless chief minister, Satish is struggling to keep his sanctity intact.
Local political rowdies instigate chaos. Everything from hiding rice and wheat from the starving public to violating women and igniting a communal war takes place. All this is done just to keep their bellies full at the cost of the poor people. The famine is used as an excuse for all of them to pursue their own personal goals. Does it mean taking lives of the innocent? So be it. Does it mean capitalizing on the corrupt administrative force that drives our nation? So shall it be.
Fighting a losing battle between all this is a tired and enraged Satish. With nowhere to turn for help he starts playing his own game by letting those who want to fight go ahead but at the same time manages to start helping out the poor by drilling bore wells. While the Chief minister is using his own method to stay in power and extract all that is left, many people are made scapegoats.
Bara showcases the shameful tale of corrupt politics and how it strangles the desperate. It is a wonderful metaphor for the famine struck politics in our country which is displayed in its complete naked shame.
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Film: Ganashatru.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Duration: 100 mins.
The film is an adaptation of a play by Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People.It is set in a small town in Bengal. Dr. Ashoke Gupta (Soumitra Chatterjee) is the head of a town hospital. Gupta's younger brother, Nisith (Dhritiman Chatterjee), is the head of the committees running the hospital and a temple. Both were built by a local Industrialist. The temple is also a big tourist attraction.
Dr. Gupta is convinced that the holy water of the temple is contaminated due to faulty pipe-laying. It is causing an epidemic in the town. He warns his brother Nisith.
Nisith, the Industrialist and other town officials reject the idea that holy water might be the cause of the epidemic. They refuse to close the temple to carry out the repairs.
Dr. Gupta wants to write an article in the newspaper to warn people, but giving-in to the pressure from the powerful people, the editor refuses to publish it.
Left with no alternative, Dr. Gupta organises a public meeting that is also sabotaged. And Dr. Gupta is proclaimed an enemy of the people. >>Top
Film: Faecal Attraction.
Director: Pradip Saha
Duration: 32 mins.
This movie highlights the horrific condition of the drainage system due to its improper planning and negligence. Sewage is thoughtlessly dumped into the rivers, without any treatment, thus polluting it immensely. It calls out for the improvement of sewage and excreta management in the country. >>Top
Film: Village of Dust City of Water.
Director: Sanjay Barnela
Production: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
Duration: 28 mins.
Village of Dust, City of Water focuses on the issue of water-induced migration. Earlier, only landless people would migrate. Now we find that even the medium- and small-landed farmers are migrating to cities because of lack of water. For example, the Indira Gandhi Canal in Rajasthan inspired farmers who sold jewellery and took loans from moneylenders to buy land alongside the canal thinking that it would green the desert. Fifteen years later, they're still waiting for water; for their first harvest. Punjab doesn't have so much water to release to the canal and so it's urban areas like Bikaner and Jodhpur benefit at the cost of villages that have actually been taken for a ride. >>Top
Film: Shadows of Tehri.
Director: Anirban Dutta
Duration: 45 mins.
Shadows of tehri is an attempt to capture the essence of old Tehri town in Tehri Garhwal, Uttaranchal, before it is lost forever under the swirling waters of the world’s highest dam, built over the rivers of Bhagirathi and Bhilangana.
The film interweaves folklore, music, tradition and history to create a picture that may help future generations to visualize the town. Four protagonists, who have witnessed its transition from the idyllic capital of a hill King to a more modern town governed by a peoples’ council, take a nostalgic look at its historical landmark.
The playing of Naubat is an introduction to their narration. In the olden days, a three – member band of Dhol, Ranasingha and Nagara kept time for people by playing Naubat eight times a day. Quite fittingly, the playing of Naubat marks the end of the film too, speaking metaphorically of the end of an era.
The ghost of the King, whose horse had once stopped at the old Bhairav temple, is left to roam silently through the ruins of his beloved town. >>Top
Film: Erosion.
Director: Sourav Sarangi
A large number of people have fallen victim to large scale erosion that takes place almost every year along Ganga and Padma rivers in Malda and Murshidabad districts, west Bengal, India. The situation is worsening each year….. Concerned authorities have been callous and negligent; even they are perpetuating the problems for obvious political and monetary gains …. Local inhabitants have been alleging this for a long time to deaf ears.
The film is an on location report of the grave situation made over years. It seeks to disseminate the pains and penury, the anger and resoluteness of the sufferers of erosion.
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Film: Dui Paatan ke Beech Mein (Between The Devil and The Deep River).
Director: Arvind Sinha
Producer: Arvind Sinha
Duration: 65 mins.
Shot extensively in North Bihar, this film looks at the development models chosen and implemented, often by force, which has destroyed the livelihood of millions of people. Over the years, with each consequent flood, people developed their own coping mechanisms, which soon became integral to their culture. Man-made floods and water logging over vast agriculture land has pauperized the people of Bihar. All this has been done to “protect people from floods”! >>Top
Film: The Lost Water.
Director: Dakxin Bajrange
Duration: 25.21 mins
The movie throws light on the Agariya tribe who cultivate salt in the little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat. Only salt water is available in the region as a result the people are forced to engage in salt cultivation. The process of salt cultivation has led to many health issues related to skin. Most of the Agariya’s do not live their full life span and die around the age of 50, usually due to tuberculosis or blindness both caused by over exposure to salt. With a monthly wage of 1500-1700 rupees they pay 500 rupees for drinking water alone. The Agariya tribe is always found digging for water proving the age old folk tale which says he is actually searching for the lost water in the desert. >>Top
Film: Cutting off a Lifeline.
Director: Saraswati Kauvala
Duration: 62 mins.
The city of Hyderabad was born on the banks of the River Musi. However, today,
Musi has been relegated to history books by the people of the city. Little do they realize the importance of this Lifeline of Hyderabad.
Cutting off a lifeline, especially made for the people of Hyderabad, brings back to conscience, that this “Murky” river (as they call it now), still continues to provide life for thousands of rural folk. The film tries to throw certain important questions we need to ask ourselves regarding our perceptions of Urbanisation, our demands as citydwellers, which impact thousands if not millions of lives in the rural areas.
It also shows up the callous attitude of the planners, bureaucrats who seem to think of the urban and rural poor as non-entities. All in all, a lifeline has been turned into a tool of death and disease. >>Top
Film: Loktak - The Dying lake of Manipur.
Director: Aribam Shyam Sharma
Duration: 58 mins.
Located in the southern part of the Manipur valley, Loktak is the largest fresh water lake in the Indian subcontinent. Loktak is the main source of livelihood and food not only for the human inhabitants but also for the birds and animals residing there.
The supposedly extinct Sanghai deer was later found to be still alive in the Loktak region of Manipur.
In 1970, the government came up with the idea of setting up a multi purpose hydroelectric power plant with a dream of rapid progress and development of Manipur and surrounding states. Unfortunately, the plan had produces negative side effects on the environment and the socio-economic life of Manipur.
In recent years though, the government has taken measures to rectify the damages caused and only time can tell us what its final outcome will be. >>Top
Film: 1000 Days and a Dream.
Director: P. Baburaj and C. Saratchandran
Production: Third Eye Communications
Duration: 77 mins.
The Film “1000 Days and a Dream” documents the poignant moments in the four and half years of Anti Coca – Cola struggle in Plachimada district, Kerala. The film captures the spirit of the anti Coca- Cola struggle, traces the history of the struggle and discusses the several issues raised by it. The film shares the dreams and sorrows of some of its active participants. >>Top
Film: A River’s Story: The Quest for the Brahmaputra.
Director: Jahnu Barua
Producer: Sanjoy Hazarika, Mimesha Production
Duration: 54 mins.
The film takes a sympathetic look at the river and its people, the ecosystems that it nourishes, as well as the history, geography, cultures and livelihoods of the communities who live there. It deals with one river, three nations, and many cultures. Filmed on location in Tibet, North East India and Bangladesh, a River’s Story tells the stories of communities through their own perspectives. In a rare voyage, the film takes viewers to colorful places and exotic communities along the river, which have been isolated for centuries by time and distance. The film treats the river as its main character, as creator, sustainer and a natural life force, which is a friend to the people and the ecosystems, which flourishes on either bank. >>Top
Film: Gharat.
Director: Pankaj Rishi Kumar
Production: Public Service Broadcasting Trust
Duration: 30 mins.
This is a film on the traditional "Gharats or watermills" of Garwhal which is aimed at increasing the awareness of tapping low cost power from existing watermills in the mountains and thereby achieving decentralized sustainable economic development. >>Top
Film: Old Sea and the man.
Format: DV-Cam
Duration: 70 mins.
The tsunami that occurred on 26th December 2004 was clearly one of the deadliest natural disasters the world has seen in recent times. Resulting in 8081 deaths in Tamil nadu, hundreds of thousands displaced, and massive infrastructure destruction, there is no doubt that concerted and long-term attention needs to be paid to the rebuilding of the affected communities.
This documentary made in post-Tsunami situation of Tamil Nadu (south India) clearly brings out the range of human rights violations of the coastal communities in the name of “development”. The obvious human rights violations of these communities that result from the so called relief and rehabilitation efforts are many. Through the views of the coastal communities across the coast line of Tamil Nadu, this documentary exposes the design of the state to forcibly relocate the fishing community from their pre-tsunami settlements that amounts to completely uprooting them from their livelihood resources.
This documentary also clearly brings out the man-made silent tsunamis that have been eroding the lives of coastal communities and coastal resources for decades now.
The resistance of the coastal communities to the so called development based on market oriented models generated by globalization continues. >>Top
Film: Mountains in the Mist – "Discovering Cloud Forests".
Director: Alec Wohlgroth (Schweiz)
Nature and environment (German)
Duration: 40 mins.
Have you ever heard of cloud forests? These intriguing ecosystems are very rare. Only 2% of the world’s tropical forests are cloud forests – and yet, these mountainous brothers of lowland rain forests are important treasure houses of biodiversity and suppliers of large volumes of high-quality stream flow. Enjoy with this film the beautiful and mystical world of these forests high up in the clouds. See how scientists try to unravel the secrets of these amazing ecosystems and how forest protection works in Costa Rica – and hope with us that these forests in the mist can be saved for future generations. >>Top
Film: The never never water.
Director: Allessandra Speciale
The “water lords” have arrived in the Sahel. In Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, the search for water has always been an exhausting chore. In addition to the shortage of water there is now also the threat of privatization.
This documentary tells the story of Moussa, an itinerant water seller in the suburbs of the capital. It also follows a journey to discover the problems connected with water which today represents an urgent problem for the whole of our planet, from Burkina Faso and Brazil, to India. >>Top
Film: The life and struggle of Sekou’s exile and return.
Director:Eric Mounier
Production: ADN Productions France
Duration: 52 mins.
Conceived as an investigation journey, this documentary puts us in touch with Sekou, a young man from Mali. Having immigrated to France, Sekou rejects his destiny and returns to his country in order to find a way to halt the spread of desertification that is inexorably destroying his village. Through his adventures and the various people he meets, we discover with him, the multiple causes (deforestation, overpopulation, economic pressures from rich countries, etc) and consequences (fertility loss, scarcity of food, conflicts between ethnic groups, immigration towards northern countries, etc.) of desertification and also the most adequate solution (reforestation, space repartition etc.) to stop this plague. >>Top
Film: Zone of initial dilution.
Director: Antoine Boutet
Production: Antoine Boutet
Duration: 30 mins.
Zone of initial dilution looks at the urban transformation of the three ravines region in China, disrupted by the implementation of world’s largest dam. The initial zone of dilution is a term borrowed from the engineers to define the perimeter of a body of water, polluted by waste which progressively dilutes into the general current. This illustrates the generalized situation in the region, with the gradual erasure of lifestyles and local practices. Before the end of construction, foreseen in 2008, the video lays out the state of the spaces, cities and the banks of Yangtze River, of those in ruin or those which have disappeared. The video also attempts to define the consequences on the landscape and the affected populations, within a planned perspective of the ultimate rising of the waters. >>Top
Film: Dirty aid, Dirty water campaign.
Director: Jo Winterburn
Producer: World Development Movement
Duration: 17 mins.
It’s an appalling truth that over a billion people around the world don’t have access to clean water and lack basic sanitation. In many countries water provision is characterized by corruption, underinvestment, inefficiency and incompetence. This is a problem that needs immediate attention. But the solution the government has chosen to support privatization at any cost – is a dangerous distraction from real answers.
An ideological belief in the free market combined with a desire to support British business, has led the UK government to impose a failing model on the south, with disastrous results for the world’s poor. The UK’s aid budget is paying the bills for a privatization push aimed at the south, meaning money supposed to fight poverty is instead going straight into the pockets of big businesses. >>Top
Film: Devils water.
Director: Amirul Arham
Producer: Night Lights Prod.
Duration: 53.10 mins.
In Bangladesh 49 million people are affected by arsenic contaminated water which they consume daily. Not properly informed, abandoned and rejected, these people die in their villages due to negligence. In this humanitarian catastrophe, national and international aids are still desperately inefficient and slowed down by bureaucracy, corruption, lack of competence and professionalism. Through the personal accounts of Asma and Najma, two girls affected by the contamination and Jamal a scientist fighting against the effects of contamination; this film hopes to contribute to change things for the better. >>Top
Film: We corner people.
Director: Kesang tseten
Duration: 50 mins.
They call themselves ‘corner’ people. They don’t have electricity or a single shop; after finishing grade 3, children must walk four hours daily to go to school. A river straddling the village swept away a young bride when it inexplicably swelled. The event haunts the village giving voice to a demand for a bridge. The film is a powerful depiction of rural subsistence reality, showing how poverty, culture and self representation are entwined; it will shatter any notion of such a thing as an average or 1representative village out there. >>Top
Film: Ganga from the ground up.
Directors: Yves Saduvani & Miriam Ciscar
Duration: 43.41 mins.
Finding its perspective through cries of anguish, philosophical musings and didactic analysis, ‘Ganga from the Ground Up’ is a vibrant, kinetic chronicle of the course of the river Ganga. Following its holy origins from the Himalayas to the fertile plains and booming cities, the film examines the river as a spiritual and ecological core of the nation serving as a scathing critique against the rampant exploitation by greedy corporations and an indifferent government while also offering simple, straightforward solutions for sustaining the river on which hinges an entire civilization. >>Top
Film: Water first.
Director: Amy hart
Duration: 25 mins.
This movie throws light on the grave problem of shortage and contamination of water in the Malawi region of Africa. Malaria, cholera, diarrhea and dysentery are the wide spread water bone diseases, which has been the cause of thousands of deaths in this country. Women travel upto 5 kilometers, only to get bucket of dirty water. It emphasizes water as the priority number one. On the other hand the movie takes us to Soweto, where the people have to fight for water because water supply is privatized and a meter is placed for the amount of water they use. Her people are ready to die for water. >>Top
Film: Voorland.
Director: Albert Elings and Eugiene Jansen
Duration: 70 mins.
Voorland meditates on the shifting relationship between man and nature in this area that has been “returned to the river”, where cows can only graze when the waters retreat and where wild horses were recently reintroduced. Nature plays the lead role in this documentary and is shown in all its beauty and simplicity with rushing floodwaters, grazing cows and crimson sunsets. Man only figures in the background. >>Top
Film: Window Facing the Sun.
Director: Bijan Zamanpira
Duration: 12 mins.
A carnival shadow-play of prayers, ceremonies, the land and the clouds as a desert community in Iran beseeches the clouds to rain water and life down upon their scorching land. A triumphant, poetic invocation of the source of life. >>Top
Film: Let’s not disturb the water.
Director: Bijan Zamanpira
Duration: 22 mins.
A group of migrants settle in a new place and build their homes where water is a scarcity. So they decide to go up to the mountain and harvest the ice. On their way back they load their donkey’s with huge blocks of ice. It is the water obtained from this ice, they use for drinking and all other household purposes This movie shows us a day in the life of these villagers depicting their adaptation to the new place without disrupting nature . >>Top
Film: The Little Republic.
Director: Anwar Jamal
Production: Institute of Social Sciences
Duration: 60.27 mins.
The film is set in a small village in Rajasthan, where the women and lower caste have little say. Four strong willed women, however try to change things. The village becomes a universal microcosm of democracy. The film confronts opposite views of political power for selfish interests. The women, on the other hand, perceive political power as an enabling instrument to fulfill the needs for their community. The search for water is their priority. Visually the film revolves through the desert towards a feminine space where four women, freed from the strict code of conduct in the rural society, relive their histories, and draw strength from each other. The sun, the moon and the desert itself travel with them. >>Top
Film: Flux us sound.
Director: Gruppo Sinestetico
Duration: 09.48 mins.
Water-winding, flowing, freefalling, ripples, waves, drops, depicting grace, beauty, purity and life. >>Top
Film: Deserts voice.
Director:Massimiliano Troiani
Duration: 9.50 mins.
The movie is about the true nature of water, which is an imperishable being. It lives among the clouds and comes down to earth so that it can run in rapid streams and travel different places. >>Top
Film: Captain Planet.
Production: Captain Planet Foundation
Seeing the Earth in its profound environmental peril, Gaia, goddess of the Earth, summons five kids from around the world to become the Planeteers, an opposing force to fight back and educate others in the need to be environmentally responsible. To accomplish that task, each kid is given a magic ring that each has a power of earth, wind, water, fire and heart. When the threat they face is too big for them to face, they can combine and amplify their powers to create Captain Planet, who has the power to stop catastrophic environmental disasters himself, while the Planeteers contribute with the things anyone can and should do to help. >>Top
Film: Nor any Drop to Drink.
Director: Joska Wessels
Producer: Joska Wessels
Duration: 23 mins.
The film “Nor any drop to drink” is about the countries in Middle East, confronting the water crises. The film travels to Egypt, Jordan and Palestine where the water crisis is slowly brewing up and also details the alternative initiatives by the local village communities in curbing these crisis.
The film starts in Jordan where there is a severe water shortage, which will only get worse because the country has a population growth rate of 2.9%, the ninth highest in the world. In Damiya village a new initiative has started to get the officials and users together in an effort to solve the water problems and develop realistic strateg.
Beni Suef in Egypt is one of the poorest governorates. About 2 million people live which makes 3.2% of Egypt’s total population, most of them farmers. The demand for irrigation is high. Farmers are desperate and try to figure out different perspectives for the problem. The water users have started to discuss their water problems with government officials at district and governorate levels to come up with solutions.
In Maithaloun, Palestine, Mustafa has developed an innovative project to use the local plain for water harvesting, that will provide drinking and irrigation water for local agricultural production. He discusses his idea with local officials and manages to turn it into viable municipality projects. >>Top
Film: Al Otro Lado.
Director: Natalia Almada
Duration: 70 mins.
An aspiring composer from the drug capital of Mexico faces two choices to better his life: traffic drugs or cross the border illegally into the United States. From Sinaloa, Mexico, to the streets of south-central and east Los Angeles, Al otro lado explores the world of drug smuggling, illegal immigration, the decline of the fishing industry and the corrido music that chronicles it all. >>Top
Film: The Disappearing of Tuvalu: Trouble in Paradise.
Director: Christopher Horner and Gilliane Le Gallic
Duration: 50 mins.
A detailed overview of contemporary life in the tiny South Pacific country of Tuvalu, this film documents the earth’s first sovereign nation faced with total destruction due to the effects of global warming. Observation, narration, and interviews with Tuvalu citizens from various walks of life flesh out a full portrait of a unique community confronting a dubious future on the front lines of a global environmental assault. >>Top
Film: Here.
Director:Vincent Grenier
Duration: 07 mins.
Here plays with the structure of a synthetic and organic haiku or renga (Japanese poetry) that visually links land, water and private spaces, working with the primal powers and suggestiveness of transient, effervescent colors. >>Top
Film: The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It.
Director: Chiapas Media Project/Promedios
Duration: 15 mins.
The video discusses the situation in the town of Bolon Aja’aw, located near the famous Agua Azul River system. The federal government sold the land in Bolon Aja’aw to a private company to create an ecotourism center without the permission of the community members. The video documents a meeting between Zapatista authorities and Mexican government functionaries, and offers a critical look at the practical implications of so-called ecotourism. >>Top
Film: Last Season: Portrait of a Trawler.
Director: Oren Bendavid-Tal
Duration: 28 mins.
A compelling and eye opening portrait of the ground fish trawler Isabel S. from New Bedford, Massachusetts follows Jeff, the captain, who learned fishing from his father, local legend 'Fearless Freddy' Hatfield. Brian, the cook, is a biker and a recovering alcoholic. Lo, the deckhand, is a refugee from Vietnam who has rediscovered Buddhism.
Amidst the once-ample fishing areas of Georges Bank and the Nantucket Shoals, fishing is a complicated and sometimes deadly business, requiring detailed knowledge of the ocean floor and the habits of fish . >>Top
Film: Out of Balance: ExxonMobil’s Impact on Climate Change.
Director: Tom Jackson
Duration: 65 mins.
Shows the influence that the largest company in the world has on governments, the media, and citizens, and what can be done about global warming. Out of Balance does not just critique ExxonMobil, it also offers challenging, large-scale ideas for the global social changes that must take place if there’s any chance of having a livable planet for future generations. >>Top
Film: Radio Ñonmdaa: The Word of the Water.
Director: Chiapas Media Project/Promedios
Duration: 15 mins.
On December 20, 2004, Radio Ñonmdaa came on air, becoming the first radio station to broadcast in the indigenous Amuzgo language. The film tracks the history of the station that, since opening, has received constant harassment from the Mexican military, which has threatened to shut it down. >>Top
Film: Suncookers.
Director: Catherine Scott
Duration: 18 mins.
Follows Margaret Owino as she trains people to use solar cookers in Nyakach, Kenya, and at the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya. Small cardboard solar cookers are clean, smoke-free, and better for the environment. Deforestation for cooking has contributed to soil loss through erosion. >>Top
Film: Islands.
Director: Richard Fung
Duration: 09 mins.
Fung deconstructs the 1956 John Huston film, Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, a story of the unrequited love of a shipwrecked American marine for an Irish Nun to comment on the Carribean’s relationship to the cinematic image. The artist’s uncle Clive was employed as an extra on the film and Fung searched the images for traces of his presence. >>Top
Film: Prospecting.
Director: Brooke White
Duration: 12 mins.
Observes delta landscapes from the perspective of a prospector surveying land for future exploitation such as agriculture and oil using various means. >>Top
Film: Water and Autonomy.
Director: Chiapas Media Project
Duration: 14 mins.
Many indigenous communities in Chiapas have no access to potable water. This piece looks at how the Zapatista communities are now building their own water systems. Community members explain how the water project fits into their autonomous process, helps to fight sickness, and has alerted them to protect existing water sources as another means of resistance to globalization projects like the Plan Puebla Panama. >>Top
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