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Published on Sunday, 10 September 2017 21:15
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Mining Justice Action
Committee (MJAC) and the Latin American Film Festival
presents the award-winning documentary film:
When Two Worlds
Collide. (103 minutes)
Tuesday September 19th
UVIC Cinecenta at 7
pm and 9 pm (Regular ticket prices apply)
In this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are
taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders
who will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. On the one side
is President Alan Garcia, who, eager to enter the world stage, begins
aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous
Amazonian land. He is quickly met with fierce opposition from indigenous leader
Alberto Pizango, whose impassioned speeches against Garcia’s destructive actions
prove a powerful rallying cry to throngs of his supporters. When Garcia
continues to ignore their pleas, a tense war of words erupts into deadly
violence.
http://www.whentwoworldscollidemovie.com/
This
powerful film won an award at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and is a riveting
account of how an indigenous community struggles to protect its land from the
intrusive extractive industry. Indigenous resistance to pipe lines in the Amazon
has some obvious parallels with the fight against Kinder Morgan’s Trans-Mountain
Pipeline in BC.
MJAC will host an information table at this
event.
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