Honoring Indigenous Futures with Storytelling: Oil and Water

Honoring Indigenous Futures with Storytelling: Oil & Water will be a documentary film showing and discussion. 

1. Protection Not Protest: The People of Standing Rock (25 min.) In 2016 the Lakota people of the
Standing Rock Reservation had to defend their watershed and sacred burial sites from an
invading oil company. This short and impactful film by Academy Award winner Jonathan
Demme listens to the voices of the water protectors urging us to defend the sacred.

2. The Community of the River Wachirpas (15 min.) brings viewers into the heart of the Amazon, where
oil contamination is risking the lives and culture of an Achuar community living on the
Wachirpas River. They are requesting our help to purchase a water-purification system, and
proceeds from this event will help them to implement this life-saving technology.

3. Community Conversation (50 min.) A Conversation with Brooklyn Demme will follow the screening, on film,
activism, mentorship, and building community at home and abroad.