Join SunWater Spa and One Nation Walking Together for a film night featuring three short documentaries from 2017. These films collectively illuminate the complex relationships that arise between environmental conservation, resource development, and indigenous rights, as well as how indigenous communities struggle to reconcile these relationships, in an effort to preserve their sacred lands and culture.
Fire With Fire (2017): 15min, Australia
Directed by Emma Masters of Weave Films. Aboriginal
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Join SunWater Spa and One Nation Walking Together for a film night featuring three short documentaries from 2017. These films collectively illuminate the complex relationships that arise between environmental conservation, resource development, and indigenous rights, as well as how indigenous communities struggle to reconcile these relationships, in an effort to preserve their sacred lands and culture.
Fire With Fire (2017): 15min, Australia
Directed by Emma Masters of Weave Films. Aboriginal people in northern Australia have combined traditional knowledge with modern technology to develop a revolutionary, world-first approach to reducing carbon emissions.
View whole movie here.A Last Stand For Lelu (2017): 24min, Canada
Directed by Farhan Umedaly and Tamo Campos. A great injustice is being done on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, B.C., the sacred and traditional territory of the Lax Kw’alaams people for over 10,000 years. The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on the island–Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian energy giant Petronas, without consent.
View trailer here. Our Last Refuge (2017): 24min, USA
Directed by Daniel Glick, and produced by Casey Perkins. Our last refuge tells the story of the Badger-Two Medicine, the sacred homeland of the Blackfeet Nation of Montana, and the decades-long struggle to protect it from oil and gas exploitation. The film features voices from all sides of the struggle–Blackfeet elders, local conservationists, and even the law firm pushing for oil exploration. All together, they chronicle the epic saga of this unique landscape, stretching back millennia, and the current legal challenge, the outcome of which could determine the fate of sensitive and sacred lands nationwide. One of the highest profile conservation struggles in recent history, Our Last Refuge is the first in-depth telling of this critical story at a moment in time when the stakes are at their highest.
View trailer here.
