The Waiapi Indians in the north of Brazil negotiated the boundaries of their territory with the government to protect it from future devastation by gold prospectors. A documentary created at the Center for Indigenous Work. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
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Every year, more than 25,000 workers are enslaved by landowners in rural Brazil, mostly in the Amazon region. This video tells the story of men who set out in search of work and are taken to isolated ranches, only to find that they have been lured into debt bondage. Forced to do backbreaking work and to live in overcrowded shacks with no running water, they are treated like animals. “A bullet from my shotgun is what you have a right to here”, one worker was told. With no way out, they toil in the hope of buying back their freedom.
UntitledIn the aggressive search for the “black gold” that drives Western economies, multinational corporations are working to extract billions of dollars of oil reserves from beneath Ecuador's rainforest. Between Midnight and the Rooster's Crow investigates the operations of the EnCana Corporation, a firm that, despite proud public declarations of its social responsibility, is shown to be answerable for widespread environmental contamination and human rights violations.
UntitledEuropean Parliament in Brussels. A group of deputies received a visitor, a native of Ecuador, but do not let him pass. Condensed history of a sterile mismatch and its causes.