POWERLANDS — screening with director Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso in Attendance!

Join Cinema Politica Concordia for the screening of POWERLANDS followed by a Q&A with award-winning filmmaker, Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, moderated by Carlee Kawinehta Loft.

Indigenous-made and centered, POWERLANDS shines an urgent light on land and water protectors’ resistance to corporate and state violence and the ongoing resource extraction mayhem.

ABOUT THE FILM

POWERLANDS

Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso / Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Philippines, United States, Blaan, Dine / 2022 / 1h15m / English, Spanish, Visayan, Wayuunaki, Zapotheca / English subs

Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, a young Navajo filmmaker, investigates displacement of Indigenous people and devastation of the environment caused by the same chemical companies that have exploited the land where she was born. She travels to La Guajira region in rural Colombia, the Tampakan region of the Philippines, the Tehuantepec Isthmus of Mexico, and the protests at Standing Rock. In each case, she meets Indigenous women leading the struggle against the same corporations that are causing displacement and environmental catastrophe in her own home. Inspired by her journeys, Ivey Camille brings the lessons from these struggles home to Navajo Nation.

EVENT DETAILS

This event is co-sponsored by the Concordia Student Union and is co-presented by the Centre for Philippine Concerns and Présence autochtone.

Admission is by donation ($5-10 suggested). The venue is wheelchair accessible. In order to prevent the spreading of COVID 19, wearing a mask at Cinema Politica Concordia events is strongly recommended.

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