Press & Awards
Video Interviews
INTERVIEW ON DEMOCRACY NOW, APRIL 22, 2022
POST-SCREENING DISCUSSION AT PATOIS NEW ORLEANS FILM FESTIVAL
INTERVIEW AT SEDONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2022
INTERVIEW AFTER WINNING BEST US FEATURE AWARD, AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY AND ANIMATION FESTIVAL (AMDOCS)
Press Reviews
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO WATCH THIS FILM WITHOUT…SWELLING EMOTION. IN EMPOWERING THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES TO GIVE VOICE TO THEIR EXPERIENCES, THEIR ASPIRATIONS, AND THEIR FIERCE RESOLVE, THE FILM ITSELF IS A POWERHOUSE EXPERIENCE.
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POWERLANDS HIGHLIGHTS THE DISPLACEMENT OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND THE DEVASTATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT BY ENERGY COMPANIES THAT EXPLOIT THE LAND TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE NATIVE PEOPLE ON THEM.
Read the full interview from the Navajo-Hopi Observer
POWERLANDS ASKS THOSE OF US WHO AREN’T AT THE IMMEDIATE SHARP END TO SEE, AND TO CONNECT.
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Finds the dance in the struggle and articulates, powerfully, how that dance is the struggle.
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Clear analysis of colonial dynamics spanning continents and centuries.
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Inspirational and powerful.
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Resists the idea that there are simple solutions.
Read the full article in the Halifax Courier
EXPOSES A RANGE OF CORPORATE ABUSES AND INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE.
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BRINGS TO LIGHT THE GENERATIONS-LONG WORLDWIDE EXPLOITATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND THEIR LANDS
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Winner, Rigoberta Menchú Grand Prize, Montreal First Peoples’ Festival / Présence Autochtone.
See more in this article in the Montreal Gazette