CLALSES: Film Screening of Together for Water Defending the Chocó Rainforest & Q&A with film producer, Dr. Juli Hazlewood

Join us with the Producer Juli Hazlewood, Co-founder & Executive Director of Roots & Routes IC, on the Film Screening: Together for Water Defending the Choco Rainforest. Hosted by Kristina Lyons, Associate Professor of Anthropology. This documentary is the result of a collective and intercultural 20-year process of two communities coming together to present the first constitutional-level Rights of Nature lawsuit in the world.  

The people of the Afro-descendant community of La Chiquita and the Awá Indigenous community of Guadualito were once free to walk their rainforests, drink water, and bathe in their rivers. When the oil palm companies arrived, everything changed. The companies replaced the rainforest with monocultures and contaminated the water. In this film, the young people listen attentively to the elders’ life stories and struggles and carry on the fight for the human right to water through filmmaking.

This film screening is also the first installment of the Latin American film series directed by Dr. Kristina Lyons.

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