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In 2019 Our Village popped up in New York City for the much anticipated UN #ClimateAction Summit. We took over the Helen Mills centre …e.

The Dutch National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines announced on April 20, 2021 that they would accept a complaint against Pluspet…e.

Young indigenous filmmaker from Sungai Utik, West Kalimantan , Indonesia talks with Hollywood actor Bill Pullman about his latest proje…

Yanda is an indigenous filmmaker from the Pastaza province, in the deep Ecuadorian Amazon. He is in discussion with Hollywood actor Bil…

Indigenous and community leaders from 20 tropical forest countries went to Europe in 2017 to tell decision makers how they are key alli….

Can you hear us? #GuardiansOfTheForest takeover Time Square last night to send a clear message ahead of the UN #ClimateActionSummit: We…

Our Village – is now open! Mina Setra, Dayak leader from Kalimantan and indigenous organisations AMAN, shows us inside and what we can …

The message is simple: We Can’t Stop Climate Change Without Nature And Nature Needs Guardians Protect Forests Now

Our Village is a convening, cultural hub, and immersive experience, bringing indigenous peoples, communities of color, and grassroots v…

Indigenous and community leaders from 20 tropical forest countries went to Europe to tell decision makers how they are key allies to fi….

What is there to believe in? Spirituality in a Time of Crisis. In a world angry about racial inequality we hear from those on the front…

How do we stop forest fires? Using tech and fighting fires. On Tuesday we’ll be joined by Daniel Haratuma Javaé, indigenous fire fig…

How do we stop exploiting our planet? Tactics to stop extraction. Dallas Goldtooth, Bernadette Demientieff and Tara Houska hold a speci…

What brings us together? Looking at the big picture. Hosted by Yeb Sano, with live mural drawing by his brother AG Sano, we’ll explor…

How do we tell our story? Storytelling for a new generation – Hear the innovative storytelling techniques from the forest and meet th…

The defence of cultures, languages and territories is one of the hallmarks of indigenous communication and cinema, as affirmed by those of us who have been working from a multitude of contexts to assert our right to tell our stories and through them to relate to other peoples and struggles. The capacity to construct other […]

End of year update from Paul Redman, Executive Director This year has been one of the strangest, most harrowing and soul searching in my lifetime and it is being felt on a global scale.  We have been forced to watch from afar as our indigenous friends face the terrors of a global pandemic in isolation, […]

If Not Us Then Who? are partnering with XR Youth and the Internationalist Solidarity Network to share indigenous films with young activists around the UK.     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Extinction Rebellion Youth (@xr_youth) on Jul 23, 2019 at 3:57am PDT We find out a bit more about […]

It was the very beginning of the journey for If Not Us Then Who. We were in Brasilia at a workshop convened for a select few journalists and filmmakers to meet representatives from some of Brazil’s main indigenous and traditional peoples groups. When we arrived it was in full swing, like an energetic meeting of […]

One of the problems we face now is the crass individualism that are being promoted. You know as an autonomous individual you don’t care what happens to your neighbor or your environment and that I think is one of the major problems that the world faces now and I think values of Indigenous Peoples in […]

It had the feel of a family reunion as their stage rang loudly, day and night, with cries and chants to ancestral spirits and translated words of age-old wisdom” Justin Catanoso from Mongabay In September 2018, ‘If Not Us Then Who’ in partnership with the Hip Hop Caucus, convened a 4 day community corner space […]

Earlier this month, we led a workshop on audiovisual production and digital media for the second time (we held the first last year, in 2017) as part of the course, “Strengthening of youth for citizen participation”, organized by UNDP Mexico and Red MOCAF. The first hours of the course were used to talk about basic […]

Indigenous and local communicators are fighting, witnessing and documenting some of the greatest battles for our planet’s natural resources and environmental integrity. Their home territories may be places where law enforcement is slim to nonexistent, and where mainstream media rarely travel – while if they do their coverage often lacks context and depth of understanding.  […]

The trip to Sungai Utik in 2013 impacted the early team members of If Not Us Then Who? As a later addition to the team words like ‘longhouse’, ‘jungle beer’ and ‘Apai Janggut’ were used a lot and when Hope was released in December 2015 I was able to relate and understand how special the […]

The Conference of Parties (COP) 21 in Paris was recently held and generated the Paris Outcome consensus. The consensus involving almost 200 countries (including Indonesia) binds all UNFCCC member countries and it contains the acceleration of reduced emission from 2016 to 2020 and implements the regime on handling global warming post 2020. Indonesia needs to […]

Our partners at Indonesian Nature Film Society are taking stories of indigenous peoples directly into university and colleges across the country. We catch up with them to find out more: Why we you doing it? University is an academic institution that has to be more evocative and critical to the problems faced by indigenous peoples […]

Dadang ‘Pohon Tua’ joined us on our Indonesian Roadshow in Jakarta, Toraja and Bogor. In that short time he wrote a song about the campaign; #SiapaLagiKalauBukanKita. Our friends at Infis have used clips from across Indonesia to put this great music video together. We hope you enjoy it.

The defence of cultures, languages and territories is one of the hallmarks of indigenous communication and cinema, as affirmed by those of us who have been working from a multitude of contexts to assert our right to tell our stories and through them to relate to other peoples and struggles. The capacity to construct other […]

Thanks to all the participants for submitting their short films to the Selva Wasi contest. Tawna presents the jury, which will select the winner. Results will be communicated on Sunday, May 3. WITSAJA! Frida Muenala, Kichwa-Zapoteza filmmaker – She studied Film and Video at the San Francisco University of Quito. Her first documentary Huellas del […]

A central theme of If Not Us Then Who’s work is supporting indigenous communicators and young storytellers with their work, from edit training to commissioning films. Film however is not always the main medium; many storytellers are using the power of word or still images to share their messages. In New York during Climate Week, […]

Washington, D.C. September 17th, 2019 The Amazon rainforest, on which we depend for food, medicine, and the wellbeing of our families, is engulfed in flames. For over a month now, with a great deal of pain, we’ve watched our homes burn. And thanks to the media, you have too. But we want you to understand […]

If Not Us Then Who? are partnering with XR Youth and the Internationalist Solidarity Network to share indigenous films with young activists around the UK.     View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Extinction Rebellion Youth (@xr_youth) on Jul 23, 2019 at 3:57am PDT We find out a bit more about […]

Update from Ranu Welum Indonesia’s rainforests are one of Earth’s most biologically and culturally rich landscapes. Unfortunately, in line with the increasing pace of Indonesia’s economic growth, forest loss continues every year. The scale of destruction of our rainforest is so large that it now has a significant impact on global climate. For this reason, […]

We asked a group of organizers of indigenous film festivals in several countries in Asia and Latin America, about how these activities work and why they do it. While everyone has responded from their own perspective, there are many coincidences in the motivations that move indigenous creators in places so distant from each other, confirming […]

Part 3 in special series for World Food Day 2018 in partnership with Land Rights Now mobilization. Find out more here. Laiya Every region has a traditional cake with their own unique and tasty characteristics. In South Sulawesi, one indigenous community in Sinjai District has their own story about a traditional cookie. To this day, laiya […]

On the past July 30 and 31th of 2018 in Mexico City, Red MOCAF held a workshop with the purpose to build a virtual communication network with the participation of women and youth, in order to strengthen organic communication among associates of the network and promote sustainable forestry development. If Not Us Ten Who? was […]

Traditionally, the Sapara culture from the Ecuadorian Amazon made their clothes with the cortex of the llanchama tree, which after a complicated process turns from a hard cortex into a flexible fibre for making clothes. Nowadays there is very few people in the Sapara territory who have this knowledge. Arturo Santi, from the Jandiayaku community, […]

August 9th is recognised and celebrated as International Indigenous Peoples Day across the world. Among the stories of social injustice, land grabbing and deforestation there are also powerful positive stories in equal measure. Today we recognise and celebrate the fantastic work being done by indigenous youth – as activists, as educators and as storytellers. We […]

To celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day 2018 we are showcasing some fantastic work being done by indigenous youth activists around the world. Meet Bertha, Mayan Indigenous from Yucatan, Mexico, a university professor of pedagogy, education and Mayan language, who has been conducting workshops on environmental care for children and young people since 2002, using the ancestral […]