2022 | Earth Focus Environmental Film Festival

Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective & Inhabitants Q&A

Expired April 30, 2022 7:00 AM
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Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective
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Inhabitants Q&A

Tuesday, April 26 | 7:00 PM (PDT)


INHABITANTS: AN INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVE


For millennia, Native Americans have successfully managed their natural resources despite discrimination and forced colonization. This collaborative documentary takes us across deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies to witness how various Indigenous communities are restoring their ancient relationships with the Earth. It also reveals that their time-tested practices are increasingly essential in our rapidly and dangerously changing world.

Directed by Costa Boutsikaris and Anna Palmer.

 

Immediately following the screening, a pre-recorded conversation with the subject of the film, Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson of the Hopi Tribe Fund (NAAF), co-director/cinematographer, Costa Boutsikaris, and co-director, Anna Palmer. Moderator TBA.

Inhabitants: An Indigenous Perspective takes us on a journey through deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies to see how various Indigenous communities are restoring their ancient relationships with the land. We visit a Hopi farmer in Arizona growing crops without dependence on rainfall, Blackfeet herders of Montana restoring the lost buffalo herds, the Karnuk people of Northern California who have perfected controlled burnings in their forests, and Hawaiian natives who are reclaiming commercial plantations in exchange for food secure gardens. It soon becomes quite clear that as the climate crisis escalates these time-tested practices of North America’s original inhabitants are becoming increasingly essential in our rapidly changing world.
  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    76 minutes
  • Director
    Costa Boutsikaris, Anna Palmer
  • Producer
    Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Roderick Spencer, Tom Sargent
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