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Join us for a preview film screening of the short documentary When Waterfalls Die, directed by award-winning Cree/Iroquois/French filmmaker Brandi Morin, followed by a discussion with Brandi and Shuar paraecologist Numii Antun Yan from Ecuador.
The film spotlights the dark side of the energy transition, focusing on its impacts on Indigenous land struggles and environmental degradation in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
It explores the tension between the ‘rights of nature’ legislation embedded in Ecuador’s constitution and a government prioritising large-scale resource extraction in one of the world’s most biodiverse regions – driven by the energy transition.
The film follows members of the Shuar Arutam Maikuants tribe as they fight to defend their ancestral lands in the face of industrial mining. When Waterfalls Die serves as an elegy to their deep bond with the environment.
The event will raise awareness of social and environmental injustice in Ecuador and the vital work undertaken by ‘paraecologists’ – trained members of local communities who collect vital ecological data in support of ‘rights of nature’ cases.
The paraecologists are trained by and part of the Ecoforensic CIC organisation, set up by Professor Mika Peck with funding from SSRP.