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Standing on Sacred Ground (3-Film Series)

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In this 3-film Standing on Sacred Ground series, indigenous people around the world stand up for their traditional sacred lands in defense of cultural survival, human rights and the environment.

From New Guinean rainforests to Canada's tar sands, PROFIT AND LOSS (Film 2 of 3) exposes industrial threats to native peoples' health, livelihood and cultural survival. In Papua New Guinea, a Chinese-government owned nickel mine has violently relocated villagers to a taboo sacred mountain, built a new pipeline and refinery on contested clan land, and is dumping mining waste into the sea. In Alberta, First Nations people suffer from rare cancers as their traditional hunting grounds are stripmined to unearth the world's third-largest oil reserve. Indigenous people tell their own stories-and confront us with the ethical consequences of our culture of consumption.

  • Year
    2014
  • Runtime
    57 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States, Papua New Guinea, Canada
  • Director
    Christopher McLeod
  • Screenwriter
    Jennifer Huang
  • Producer
    Jessica Abbe, Jennifer Huang
  • Cinematographer
    Andrew Black
  • Editor
    Marta Wohl
  • Composer
    Jon Herbst