Indigenous Environmental Justice
Manoomin - The Minnesota Way of Life
How important manoomin "wild rice" is to Native communities.
Islands at Risk: Genetic Engineering in Hawai'i
Farmers, teachers, community activists, legal and medical experts give their perspective on the genetic engineering of crops and the patenting of life forms. An earthjustice production.
Drumbeat for Mother Earth
This film has received many awards such as: Best Environmental/Social Justice Film, EarthVision Environmental Film Festival; Best Public Service Film, American Indian Film Festival; Best Environmental Film, New York Independent Film & Video Festival; and many others. The film explores how toxic chemicals contaminate the traditional food web, violate treaty rights and are passed from one generation to the next causing cancer, learning disabilities, and other serious health problems.
Mother Water
A Wuuti Production. LeAnn Lucero directs. A Hopi water issue with Peabody Mining Co taking pristine water from the desert for a coal slurry pipeline. The video reveals Hopi sacred wisdom on water.
Where The Green Ants Dream
In a slightly padded but well-acted and relevant drama, an Australian mining company and a group of aboriginals go to court to settle a dispute over sacred land that the company wants to mine. When the Ayers Mining Company sets out to begin construction of its mine with bulldozers and earth-movers, the Aboriginals physically block the work because the site is exactly where the green ants will gather to dream (a 40,000-year-old legend) and it cannot be disturbed.
Salmon On The Backs Of Buffalo
Documents the struggle of four Native American Tribes on the Klamath River of northern California and southern Oregon. From the Boardrooms of Scotland to the remote wilderness of northern California this film follows the fight of Tribes and their allies to 'bring the salmon home.' Several dams block over 350 miles of salmon spawning habitat resulting in a dramatic decline in salmon and other fish species. At risk is not only a fishery, but also the physical health, the spiritual well-being and cultural survival of the Klamath Basin's original inhabitants.
Hope
Directed by Catherine Margerin, produced by Luna Media. Its is being posted with consent and vision of Willy Whitefeather, visionary for "HOPE". The story of man going down the wrong path, with one day the possibility of finding the path of peace and love. What we are seeing around the world with wars, genocide, diseases, climate change such as global warming, and potential earth changes that have been foretold by many seers and indigenous peoples. This is that story in animated visuals and soundtrack that will shake you to your roots. We must shift to this path, without hesitation.
Rising Waters: Global Warming & the Fate of the Pacific Islands
Film awards from Bronze Plaque, Columbus International Film & Video Festival; Second Place Winner, EarthVision Environmental Film & Video Festival and many others. Director Andrea Torrice traces the impacts of climate change from the tropical Pacific to the island of Manhattan. The film examines international policies and the lives of the seven million inhabitants of the Pacific Islands who are already experiencing the first effects of global warming.
One More River: The Deal That Split The Cree
Best Documentary Award at the 2005 Rendez-vous du
Cinema Québécois, 2005 Pierre and Yolande
Perrault Award for Best Documentary Debut, 2005
Best Documentary at the Montreal Film Festival.
Mohawk filmmaker Tracy Deer and Cree filmmaker
Neil Diamond present a moving account of the
events leading up to a vote on a controversial
agreement between the Cree Nation and the
province of Quebec. The proposal, promoted to the
Cree by their Grand Chief Ted Moses, would dam
the Rupert River, not only resulting in
monumental changes to the local environment, but
Green, Green Waters
Premiered at: 2006 Toronto imagine Native Film Festival and the 2006
American Indian Film Festival, San Francisco. Minneapolis filmmaker,
Dawn Mikkelson explores the source and concepts of power: from money;
hydroelectric power; power to destroy indigenous cultures; and the
power of the Manitoba Cree who refuse to be powerless in their
struggle to survive. The film tells the viewer where electricity
comes from. Surviving mass poverty, environmental devastation, and
hopelessness after three decades of governmental dam development,