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DESCRIPTION:In honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2025\, the Department of 
 Anthropology is hosting a public screening of the film Helena from Sarayak
 u\, followed by a Q&A with the director Eriberto Gualinga\, an internation
 ally recognized Indigenous filmmaker from the Kichwa community of Sarayaku
  in the Ecuadorian Amazon. The full-length documentary depicts Sarayaku’
 s struggle against environmental degradation in their territory and how th
 is struggle gave rise to the Living Forest Proposal for Indigenous-led rai
 nforest conservation and climate change mitigation. Traveling between her 
 life in Finland and her mother’s homeland deep in the rainforests of Ecu
 ador\, 17-year-old Helena Gualinga yearns to protect her Indigenous commun
 ity from extractive development and the repercussions of climate change. H
 er story highlights the efforts of the Kichwa people of Sarayaku to recogn
 ize the Amazon rainforest as Kawsak Sacha (Living Forest in Kichwa). The L
 iving Forest is both a cultural philosophy and a proposal that states the 
 rainforest is not a resource to be used\, but a living entity in need of p
 rotection. With the help of her Sarayaku elders’ wisdom\, Helena sets ou
 t on a journey to educate the world about the importance of conserving the
  Amazon rainforest\, participating in climate marches\, and giving speeche
 s about indigenous sovereignty. A story of perseverance and resilience\, t
 he film is an ode to Indigenous communities striving to preserve their cul
 ture as they face the consequences of a globalized world and the hastening
  effects of climate change.\n\nLink to film Trailer\n\nFilmmaker Bio: Erib
 erto Gualinga is an award-winning Indigenous filmmaker from the Ecuadorian
  Amazon. He has a degree in cinema from the University of the Arts in Guay
 aquil\, Ecuador and has been documenting the landscapes\, livelihoods\, an
 d political struggles of his native village of Sarayaku for almost two dec
 ades. In 2002\, he created his first short film\, Soy Defensor de la Selva
  (I Am Defender of the Rainforest)\, which won the Anaconda Prize for Best
  Documentary at the 14th Latin American Festival of Film and Video. In 201
 2\, Los Descendientes del Jaguar (The Descendents of the Jaguar)\, which d
 ocuments Sarayaku’s legal case against an oil company at the Inter-Ameri
 can Court of Human Rights\, won the Best Documentary prize at the National
  Geographic All Roads Film Festival. In 2022\, Helena from Sarayaku premie
 red at the Environmental Film Festival in Washington\, D.C. and since then
  Eriberto has hosted screenings and talks at Dartmouth University\, Columb
 ia University\, and New York University\, among others.
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SUMMARY:Helena From Sarayaku: Film Screening and Director Q&A
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 ening-and-director-qa
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CATEGORIES:Lectures and Discussions
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