Immuto (Change) features members of indigenous and local communities and other activists from different parts of the globe voicing their concerns and describing their diverse efforts to adapt to changes, conserve territories, reform laws, and keep carbon in the ground. Every participant in Immuto comes forward as an agent of change in their respective context. More than isolated stakeholders, they powerfully reach out to viewers to assert the need for recognition and reciprocity, prevailing upon us -- in the words of one contributor – to find a way to walk side by side so that together we can find a way to benefit the whole world.

Collaboration with our partners in Vanuatu prompted the production of this video and the 2019 Island Reach expedition to gather stories of climate disruption, adaptation, and activism. As with many communities across the world, conditions and threats in villages across the Vanuatu archipelago are giving rise to frustration, fear, and anger, fueled by the social inequities that define our global crisis. After witnessing the advancing threats and impacts of the climate crisis on local Ni-Vanuatu communities, we were driven to pitch ourselves into the charged field of trying to represent climate injustices through video storytelling in order to help bring about a paradigm shift.