{"id":10166,"date":"2020-06-24T18:54:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T23:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/native-women-star-in-film\/"},"modified":"2020-06-24T18:54:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T23:54:17","slug":"native-women-star-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/native-women-star-in-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Native women star in film"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/span><\/div>
\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Patricia Gualinga<\/strong> is one of panelists to lead an online discussion and virtual release of a new feature documentary linking the environmental and climate justice efforts of four indigenous women in South and North American frontline communities at risk.
COURTESY \/ The Esperanza Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

GUADALAJARA \u2013 From The Esperanza Project, an independent multimedia outlet based in this Mexican metropolis, comes an online screening and film discussion July 1 of \u201cThe Condor & and the Eagle,\u201d a new documentary linking the environmental and climate justice leadership of four indigenous women in South and North American frontline communities at risk.<\/p>\n

The film took shape as spouses Sophie and Cl\u00e9ment Guerra, of Germany and France respectively, set out on the road in North and South America to find, compile and share the stories of grassroots community activists in a production that has become a the keystone of a campaign to support native voices for Mother Nature.<\/p>\n

After five years of offering their services, the filmmakers premiered the full-length documentary at the Woodstock Film Festival in New York State in October 2019. \u00a0Selected by more than 50 film festivals across North America, \u201cThe Condor & the Eagle\u201d since then has won 12 awards, including Best Documentary Film at the Red Nation International Film Festival in Beverly Hills.<\/p>\n

The 2014 People\u2019s Climate March in New York City, led by indigenous women from North and South America, convinced the Guerras to trace the relationships kindled there to their hometown roots.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s storyline follows the protagonists from tar-sands fracked Athabascan neighborhoods, to the climate march, to oil pipeline impacted bayou communities in North America, then to Central and South American rainforests villages ravaged by mineral extraction, as they build a meaningful Panamerican alliance for resilience and sustainability.<\/p>\n

Inspired by Ponca Casey Camp Horinek, a leader of the North-South (eagle-condor) movement, the film was set for international theater release just when the 2020 pandemic of coronavirus shut down movie houses everywhere.<\/p>\n

The Esperanza Project and numerous other allies are picking up the slack by providing watch parties for groups to share the film and ideas it inspires in a virtual setting.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we work to prevent the spread of Covid-19, indigenous activists across North and South America continue to defend the lands and waters, and to protect their communities from extraction and the pandemic,\u201d The Esperanza Project Founder Tracy Barnett said in issuing the screening invitation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe climate crisis is not paused while we battle Covid-19; we must support and learn from those at the front line of the struggle for climate justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Partnering with the film directors, the Mexico-based production company Voices of Amerikua, and the climate justice group 350.org<\/a> Guadalajara, The Esperanza Project has scheduled a live post-film online discussion for the event entitled \u201cDefending the Defenders Of Mother Earth.\u201d It will be led by prominent indigenous changemakers of Turtle Island.<\/p>\n

Among them is Patricia Gualinga, a spokeswoman for many environmental projects, such as the indigenous-led proposal Kawsak Sacha, or Living Forest, which calls for legal protection of the Ecuadorian Amazon.<\/p>\n

Gualinga works to protect the Kichwa People of Sarayaku community from human rights violations due to oil extraction projects by Chinese companies on their land.<\/p>\n

Next up is Honduran social activist Bertha Z\u00fa\u00f1iga C\u00e1ceres, whose mother, Goldman Environmental Prize recipient Berta C\u00e1ceres, was murdered in 2016. Of Lenca descent, Z\u00fa\u00f1iga carries on the organizational work her parents initiated in defense of the environment and their people.<\/p>\n

Another panelist is Moira Mill\u00e1n, a Mapuche weychafe (warrior) from Argentina, who is a leader of the indigenous ancestral lands recovery movement and the founder in 2000 of the Lof Pill\u00e1n Mahuiza community.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Mill\u00e1n began a series of meetings with women from different indigenous communities of Argentina, consolidating them in 2015 with the formation of the Movement of Indigenous Women for Good Living, which she coordinates. This movement, representing 36 native nations, convened the global Peoples Against Terricide Climate Camp, where the Peoples Against Terricide Movement emerged.<\/p>\n

Topping off the program is film protagonist Yudith Nieto, a Mexican-American artist, organizer and language justice worker originally based in Houston, where she advocated for the people of the Manchester sacrifice zone, on the east end of Houston\u2019s refinery district, in collaboration with Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, TEJAS.<\/p>\n

Nieto went on to organize in the Louisiana bayous as part of the core leadership circle for Another Gulf Is Possible. She works on community-led media, just transition stories, art in solidarity and direct action for decolonization.<\/p>\n

Donations for the online showing and discussion will go to the organizing in the communities where these struggles are ongoing. Register here<\/a> for the event at 6 p.m. Mountain Time.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Contact Talli Nauman at talli.nauman@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/div>

Visit Original Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/span><\/div>

Patricia Gualinga is one of panelists to lead an online discussion and virtual release of a new feature documentary linking the environmental and climate justice efforts of four indigenous women in South and North American frontline communities at risk.COURTESY \/ The Esperanza Project GUADALAJARA \u2013 From The Esperanza Project, an <\/p>\n

Read More<\/a>
Shared by Native Sun News Today<\/a> June 24, 2020<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1541,"featured_media":10167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5627],"tags":[10105,3222,6657],"class_list":["post-10166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resource-directory-blog","tag-archive","tag-news","tag-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}