JOIN OUR ONLINE SCREENING OF 'WATER FOR LIFE' & DISCUSSION

TITLE: Water for Life

WHEN: Two Screenings

Saturday 9th August
Sunday 10th August

WHERE: Zoom - link will be sent when you register

DIRECTOR: Will Parrinello

DURATION: 91 minutes

COST - PAY WHAT YOU CAN

All tickets are offered pay-as-you-like, thanks and the Permaculture Education Institute who has kindly paid for the cost of the screening license with Bullfrog Films. All payments are collected by our registered charity, Ethos Foundation, and Morag sends 100% to support fair share permaculture design education - mostly led by and for women and youth. Morag also offers free permaculture mentoring to all these teams through the Permaculture Education Institute.

WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING

"Water for Life is an inspiring and touching documentary that highlights the tension between an expanding modern industrial world and communities living a simple life. ~ Upmanu Lall, Director of Water Institute, Professor Global Futures, Columbia University

"Stunning...Remarkable...Water for Life is a singular contribution not only to Indigenous water and land rights movements, but to the intimate documentation of transnational government and corporate injustice in the horrific abuse of power in the Americas in the 21st century." ~ Deborah Neff, The MY HERO Project

"Water for Life is more than a documentary film. With remarkable footage and stunning visuals Will Parrinello and his team have captured the struggle of the rivers and the peoples who defend and are sustained by them." ~ Jospeh Berra, UCLA School of Law

WATCH THE TRAILER

ABOUT THE FILM

WATER FOR LIFE tells the story of three extraordinary individuals: Berta Cáceres, a leader of the Lenca people in Honduras; Francisco Pineda, a subsistence farmer in El Salvador; and Alberto Curamil, an Indigenous Mapuche leader in Chile, all of whom refused to let government-supported industry and transnational corporations take their water and redirect it to mining, hydroelectric projects or large-scale agriculture. Despite reassurances from companies and the authorities, they knew what lay ahead: contaminated water, environmental devastation, and the destruction of their communities.

It is a story of courage and determination, betrayal and corruption, death threats and murder, and of unexpected victories in the countryside and in the courts. It is a story that asks how economic development can grow in harmony with environmental protections.

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. It is a story that begins and ends with water.

HOST: MORAG GAMBLE, PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE

ABOUT MORAG GAMBLE

Morag Gamble is the founder of the Permaculture Education Institute teaching permaculture educators and designers on six continents. She has lived for a quarter of a century in an award-winning ecovillage. Morag has also created Sense-Making in a Changing World Podcast, and the Our Permaculture Life BLOG and YouTube collectively viewed millions of times. She hosted the International Permaculture Festival of Ideas. Morag also hosts the Ethos Fellowship alongside Schumacher College Fellow, Fritjof Capra, and Ethos Foundation - a registered charity offering free permaculture education for refugees.

ABOUT PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTE

Permaculture Education Institute, based at Crystal Waters Ecovillage on Gubbi Gubbi country, offers programs to support people worldwide to become teachers and leaders of permaculture programs and to activate permaculture communities. The Institute hosts regular global conversations exploring one-planet living and earth restoration - through film, podcasts, masterclasses, discussion forums, and many courses.

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PERMACULTURE DESIGN AND EDUCATION

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