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Cycle Art, Protest, and Extractivism
The 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 & Animation Film Festival (AmDocs) 2022, Best Environmental Film, Arizona International Film Festival 2022. Selected, Firelight Media Documentary Lab. Finalist, Chicken and Egg Project Hatched.
Friday, 23 September 2022, 17:00 BST @ Birkbeck Cinema 
43 Gordon Square, WC1H 0PD, London

 
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