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The Reunion

Journey to sacred site in fight to stop oil exploration

Location

Peru

Released

November 2014

Duration

8:57

Tags
  • Culture
  • Fighting Big Corporations
  • Participatory-made film
  • Peru
  • Resource Extraction
  • youth

Indigenous Harakmbut leaders lead journey to rediscover ancient sacred site to connect with their cultural past and protect their future.

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    Credit If Not Us Then Who

    O’po Luis is an indigenous Harakmbut leader of the in Puerto Azul community in the Peruvian Selva Sur.

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    Credit If Not Us Then Who

    O’po Jaime is an indigenous Harakmbut leader of the in Puerto Azul community in the Peruvian Selva Sur.

Producers

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    Formed in 2006, by Paul Redman (director & camera) and Tim Lewis (producer & sound), Handcrafted Films have worked in many diff...y.

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    Paul Redman is an award winning documentary filmmaker whose work has involved directing, filming and editing a variety of films on a ra...

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    Tom Bewick is the international project manager for our current Ghana project. Formerly the Peru director for Rainforest Foundation US,...

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