The Living Forest
U.K. – 2016
Duration: 9 min.
Director: Marc Silver
Editor: Emiliano Battista
Executive Producer: Charlie Phillips for The Guardian
The Kichwa tribe in the Sarayaku region of the Amazon in Ecuador believe in the ‘living forest’, where humans, animals and plants live in harmony. They are fighting oil companies who want to exploit their ancestral land. A delegation of indigenous people are at the Paris COP21 climate conference to make sure their voices are heard. Can they win their battle?