Name: Powerlands Screening at Pelican House
Start: 2022-10-02T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-10-02T21:00:00+01:00
Location: Pelican House

Powerlands Screening at Pelican House

London Mining Network

Powerlands is a documentary feature about global, interconnected indigenous resistance to resource colonialism.

Pelican House

About this eventIvey Camille Manybeads Tso, a young Navajo filmmaker, investigates the displacement of Indigenous people and the devastation of the environment caused by the same chemical companies that have exploited the land where she was born. She travels to the La Guajira region in rural Colombia, the Tampakan region of the Philippines, the Tehuantepec Isthmus of Mexico, and the protests at Standing Rock. In each case, she meets Indigenous women leading the struggle against the same corporations that are causing displacement and environmental catastrophe in her own home. Inspired by these women, Ivey Camille brings home the lessons from these struggles to the Navajo Nation.Hosted by the United Voices of the World union.

About the FilmThe film begins in Navajo Nation, where Ivey Camille joins friends of hers - Cody, Selest and MT - who have founded a group called Indigenous Youth for Cultural Survival. The group learns from Kim and Makai, Navajo activists who have documented the chemical companies that have contaminated the land, including BHP and Peabody Coal.In La Guajira, Ivey Camille visits the Indigenous communities displaced by the largest coal mine in Latin America, co-owned by BHP and Glencore. In a meeting at the mine, community members’ concerns are dismissed by mine executives.BHP and Glencore are also active in The Philippines, the deadliest place in the world to be a defender of the earth. Ivey Camille sees the risks first-hand, meeting with the families of those killed by soldiers, and seeing protests at the gates of Glencore. In one of the most striking scenes in the film, Ivey Camille meets with communist guerilla soldiers who are also resisting mining.The threads of resistance combine at the 2016 protests at Standing Rock, where Kim, Makai, and Ivey Camille join with a united Indigenous movement. These lessons come home to Navajo Nation as the Indigenous Youth for Cultural Survival join with Kim and Makai to create art and convene a cultural gathering. The film ends on the steadfast resistance of Navajo elders, fighting colonialism by refusing to leave their land.This film is in seven languages, including several Indigenous languages rarely captured on film: English, Diné, Spanish, Wayuu, Visayan, Blaan, and Zapotec.Featured on Democracy Now. Winner, Best US Feature, American Documentary &amp; Animation Film Festival (AmDocs) 2022, Best Environmental Film, Arizona International Film Festival 2022. Selected, Firelight Media Documentary Lab. Finalist, Chicken and Egg Project Hatched.

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