Screenings of Standing on Sacred Ground 9/16-24 - Honolulu
PIC-funded series Standing on Sacred Ground will have a series of screenings in Honolulu September 16-24.
The Dai Ho Chun Distinguished Lecturer Series in Arts & Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is bringing producer/director Toby McLeod to Honolulu to present this four-part documentary series showing how indigenous communities are resisting threats to their sacred places in a growing movement to defend human rights and restore the environment. The series is free and open to the public.
Pilgrims & Tourists and Profit & Loss
Tuesday, September 16
4:30p-5:30p and 5:45p-6:45p, respectively
Fire & Ice and Islands of Sanctuary
Thursday, September 18
4:30p-5:30p and 5:45p-6:45p, respectively
All showings will be held at the UH Mānoa Art Auditorium
McLeod is Project Director of Earth Island Institute’s Sacred Land Film Project. He has been working with indigenous communities as a filmmaker, journalist and photographer for more than 30 years. McLeod has a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley and a BA in American history from Yale. In 1985, McLeod received a Guggenheim Fellowship for filmmaking.
Contact:
Karin Mackenzie, (808) 956-4051
Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Arts and Sciences Community and Alumni Relations
www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=6697
In conjunction with the Dai Ho Chun Endowment for Distinguished Lecturers of the Colleges of Arts & Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, the Doris Duke Theatre will screen all four films from the series.
Special guest: Director Christopher (Toby) McLeod will introduce each film and lead a post-screening Q+A.
Films:
Standing On Sacred Ground | Pilgrims and Tourists
Directed by Christopher McLeod + Will Parrinello. USA | Russia. 2013. 57 mins
Sept 21 at 1:30pm
Around the world, indigenous communities stand in the way of government megaprojects. In the Russian Republic of Altai, traditional native people create their own mountain parks to rein in tourism and resist a gas pipeline that would cut through a World Heritage Site. In northern California, Winnemem Wintu girls grind herbs on a sacred medicine rock, as elders protest U.S. government plans to enlarge one of the West’s biggest dams and forever submerge this touchstone of a tribe.
Standing On Sacred Ground | Profit and Loss
Directed by Christopher McLeod. USA | 2013 57 mins
Sept 21 at 3:30pm
From Papua New Guinea’s rainforests to Canada’s tar sands, Profit and Lossexposes 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.
Standing on Sacred Ground | Fire and Ice
Directed by Christopher McLeod. USA | 2013 57 mins
Sept 21 at 5:30pm
From Ethiopia to Peru, indigenous customs protect biodiversity on sacred lands under pressure from religious conflicts and climate change. In Ethiopia’s Gamo Highlands, scientists confirm the benefits of traditional stewardship even as elders witness the decline of spiritual practices that have long protected trees, meadows, and mountains. Tensions with evangelical Christians over a sacred meadow erupt into a riot. In the Peruvian Andes, the Q’eros, on a pilgrimage to a revered glacier, are driven from their ritual site by intolerant Catholics. Q’eros potato farmers face a more ominous foe: global warming is melting glaciers, their water source.
Standing On Sacred Ground | Islands of Sanctuary
Directed by Christopher McLeod. USA. 2013. 57 mins
Sept 21 at 7:30pm*
Indigenous activists in Hawai‘i and Australia reclaim land from government and the military in a growing international movement to defend human rights and protect the environment. In Australia’s Northern Territory, Aboriginal clans maintain Indigenous Protected Areas and resist the destructive effects of a mining boom. In Hawai‘i, indigenous ecological and spiritual practices are used to restore the sacred island of Kaho‘olawe after 50 years of military use as a bombing range. Featuring Luana Busby-Neff and Davianna McGregor.
*Islands of Sanctuary also screens with Bridge to the Future on Sept. 23 at 1pm + Sept. 24 at 7:30pm
www.honolulumuseum.org/events/films/14638-standing_sacred_ground_film_series
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