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Water For Life reports from the frontline of the resistance, following three Indigenous activists in Latin America as they face death threats and murder to safeguard their precious water resources from foreign corporations and corrupt governments. The right to clean water is a global issue but in Latin America, it has become a matter of life and death.
A story of courage and determination, betrayal and corruption, death threats and murder, and of unexpected victories in the countryside and in the courts, that asks how economic development can grow in harmony with environmental protections and why we tolerate unbridled greed and profiteering at the expense of human life and our precious planet. Above all, Water For Life illuminates a growing recognition of Indigenous rights and a rising demand for corporate responsibility and environmental justice that’s being seen around the world.
Narrated by Diego Luna, with the original song Ko (Water) by Lila Downs and Daniela Millaleo.
- Runtime91 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Spanish
- CountryUnited States, Chile, El Salvador, Honduras
- DirectorWill Parrinello
- ScreenwriterSarah Kass
- ProducerRick Tejada-Flores, María José Calderón, Will Parrinello
- Co-ProducerSarah Kass
- CastAlberto Curamil, Francisco Pineda, Berta Cáceres, Diego Luna
- CinematographerVicente Franco
- EditorMaría José Calderón
Water For Life reports from the frontline of the resistance, following three Indigenous activists in Latin America as they face death threats and murder to safeguard their precious water resources from foreign corporations and corrupt governments. The right to clean water is a global issue but in Latin America, it has become a matter of life and death.
A story of courage and determination, betrayal and corruption, death threats and murder, and of unexpected victories in the countryside and in the courts, that asks how economic development can grow in harmony with environmental protections and why we tolerate unbridled greed and profiteering at the expense of human life and our precious planet. Above all, Water For Life illuminates a growing recognition of Indigenous rights and a rising demand for corporate responsibility and environmental justice that’s being seen around the world.
Narrated by Diego Luna, with the original song Ko (Water) by Lila Downs and Daniela Millaleo.
- Runtime91 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Spanish
- CountryUnited States, Chile, El Salvador, Honduras
- DirectorWill Parrinello
- ScreenwriterSarah Kass
- ProducerRick Tejada-Flores, María José Calderón, Will Parrinello
- Co-ProducerSarah Kass
- CastAlberto Curamil, Francisco Pineda, Berta Cáceres, Diego Luna
- CinematographerVicente Franco
- EditorMaría José Calderón