MINE Film Festival
A selection of films submitted to the MINE: What is Ours in the Wake of Extraction Open Call have been selected for inclusion in a free and open-to-the-public Film Festival to be held in the spring of 2025 at the Trabant Theater, University of Delaware. Screenings will also be available online, accessible to all for free.
The festival will feature a variety of thought-provoking films, with the two major screenings being River of Gold and Guardians of the Forest.
River of Gold
Description:
Amazon Aid Foundation’s documentary River of Gold sounds the alarm about a dire threat to the Amazon rainforest threatening to push it to a tipping point: illicit gold mining.
Narrated by Academy Award winners Sissy Spacek and Herbie Hancock, River of Gold is the harrowing account of a clandestine journey to uncover the savage unraveling of a pristine jungle by illicit small-scale gold mining. Ron Haviv and Donovan Webster, two war journalists, led by Enrique Ortiz, a Peruvian scientist and activist, expose mining’s unthinkable, apocalyptic destruction and its global consequences.
Available in English and Spanish
Guardians of the Forest
Description:
Guardians of the Forest is an award-winning documentary film that tells the inspiring story of the Maijuna Indigenous group of the Peruvian Amazon as they fight for their biologically rich ancestral lands and cultural survival.
Available in English and Spanish
“ We are indigenous, the guardians of the forest. We are the defenders of these lands, these forests…”
— Ederson Ríos Ushiñahua, Maijuna Leader