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Let the Daylight Into the Swamp
This film is the filmmaker’s whimsically reconstructed story of his francophone grandparents and their dramatic personal lives in a remote Canadian northwoods logging camp.
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Multimedia | film profile
Sumidouro: Good-Bye River
This award-winning film examines the lives of 5000 people from 42 riverside communities a year after they have been displaced by the construction of the Irapé Dam and hydroelectric power plant in Brazil.
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Standing on Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Tourists
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of how two indigenous communities, in Russia’s Republic of Altai and in California, are resisting government mega-projects.
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Standing on Sacred Ground: Fire and Ice
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Ethiopians and the Q’eros people of the Peruvian Andes against the pressures of religious conflicts and climate change.
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Standing on Sacred Ground: Islands of Sanctuary
This episode of a four-part documentary series reveals the struggles of indigenous Hawaiians and Australian Aboriginals to protect their sacred areas from modern and industrial encroachment.
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Amazonia Eterna
This award-winning documentary sheds new and positive insight on the importance of indigenous knowledge for conservation and how indigenous commerce could save the mighty Amazon rainforest.
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Hauling
This film follows an entrepreneurial father of 27 children as he runs a recycling business in Sao Paulo to sustain his huge family.
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The Tundra Book
The Tundra Book provides a rare and poetic glimpse into a man determined to preserve his people’s ancient culture, beliefs, and traditions.
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Behind the Blue Veil
This film examines the situation of the Tuareg people, who live across borders and at risk from poverty, environmental disasters, and militant groups.
Perspectives Article
Unruly Paradise—Nature and Culture in Malibu, California
Looking at nature and culture in Malibu, California, this paper looks at how natural processes occurring in rapid succession—over months and years—have been subject to efforts to turn the area into a tame and orderly garden as part of a linear understanding of progress, closely linked to civility and the cultivation of nature.