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.

Read the full review from Broadway World

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.

Read or listen to the full interview from Counterspin

Finds the dance in the struggle and articulates, powerfully, how that dance is the struggle.

Read the full review from The Twin Geeks

Clear analysis of colonial dynamics spanning continents and centuries.

Read the full review from the Portland Tribune

Inspirational and powerful.

Read the full article in the River Reporter

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.

Read article at Lake County News

BRINGS TO LIGHT THE GENERATIONS-LONG WORLDWIDE EXPLOITATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND THEIR LANDS

Read full review from Lake County Record-Bee

Winner, Rigoberta Menchú Grand Prize, Montreal First Peoples’ Festival / Présence Autochtone.

See more in this article in the Montreal Gazette