||| FROM ELLEN ROBERTS for FRIDAY HARBOR FILM FESTIVAL ||
Yasuni Man, Friday Harbor Film Festival’s next offering in The Director Series, focuses on the conflict between oil companies and native Waorani people in South America. In the depths of South America, where the Andes, the Amazon and the Equator collide, a wilderness exists that is one of Earth’s most bio-diverse areas – a place where mammals (including humans), birds, plants, and amphibians all thrive.
Yasuni Man documents a conflict raging deep within this area, pitting biodiversity and human rights against extractive industries and human consumption. The Waorani people who inhabit this forest Eden were once under siege by missionaries seeking to civilize them; now they are facing industry operatives and their own government in their fight to survive.
Join filmmaker Killackey and his native friend Otobo as they explore what may be lost as oil companies encroach, human rights violations run rampant, and the wilderness is destroyed – all for the oil that lies beneath this not yet exploited land.
For a preview, watch the trailer HERE. View the film free on Thursday, August 25 from 6:30 to 9 pm at www.fhff.org. Stream it on demand from August 26 through September 7 for $1.95.
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