Honoring Indigenous Futures with Storytelling: Oil & Water

Join Brooklyn Demme, son of the late Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs & Philadelphia), to watch and discuss two documentary shorts, “Protection Not Protest” and “The Community of the River Wachirpas.” Each thought-provoking film depicts indigenous communities’ inspiring struggle to secure clean water from contamination by the oil industry.

Protection Not Protest: The People of Standing Rock

In 2016, the Lakota people of the Standing Rock Reservation had to defend their watershed and sacred burial sites from an invading oil company. This short and impactful film by Academy Award winner Jonathan Demme listens to the voices of the water protectors urging us to defend the sacred.

The Community of the River Wachirpas

This intimate short film brings viewers into the heart of the Amazon, where oil contamination is risking the lives and culture of an Achuar community living on the Wachirpas River. They are requesting our help to purchase a water-purification system, which proceeds from this event will help them implement and save many lives.

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