activism

This film follows two young men fighting to preserve the Ecuadorean Amazon. One is a member of the indigenous Cofan tribe, sent to the US for a Western education as a child; the other is an American college student.

This film explores the Occupy protests and similar activist movements and what their vision for the world is.

This film investigates the cost of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster on Lousiana communities, and criticizes the relationship between British Petroleum and the U.S. government.

Patagonia Rising gives voice to the Gauchos, a frontier people dependent on the Baker and Pascua river systems, who are caught in the struggle between Chile’s pro-dam business sector, clean energy proponents and the country’s rising energy demand.

This film examines a radical policy implemented by Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa: to leave Yasuni National Park’s oil in the ground and let the industrialized countries make a contribution to the preservation of the planet’s “green lungs.”

This film recounts the story of activists aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic 30. Protesting against the first oil drilling in the Arctic ocean, they were jailed by Russia and charged with piracy and hooliganism, sparking a bitter international dispute.

This film examines the global reach of transgenic agricultural technology through the use of genetically modified soy produced in Argentina and used as pig feed in Denmark, as well as the far-reaching health consequences in both countries.

This film uses the New Mexico chile pepper to investigate genetically modified foods and criticizes the practices of the companies involved.

This film follows the residents of Brazil’s virgin forests as they struggle to maintain their identity in the face of environmental exploitation.

This film examines lessons learnt from fracking in the US state of Colorado as the practice quietly expands to protected areas around the world.