Friday, January 29, 2010

Putting James Cameron's "Avatar" in dialogue with the indigenous Amazonian struggle against oil extraction

A few weeks ago, I helped ( (I was the sound girl! And helped with various photography and script transcription/translation elements...aka production monkey) to document a trip from Puyo, an amazonian barter town, to Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. This trip consisted of various indigenous leaders from Andoa, Huaorani, Shuar, and Achuar nationalities of Ecuador.

We left in a bus early in the morning and interviewed people on the bus about their personal and collective experiences fighting for the rights of their territories that are at risk and currently being exploited by oil extraction companies.

Listen to the radio piece and watch the video (listen to the video carefully and you might recognize a familiar voice!) here!

1 comment:

Zan said...

I heard you! I heard you! That is SO exciting :)