UK PREMIERE: I AM THE RIVER, THE RIVER IS ME + LIVE Q&A
(Pay What You Can Tickets). The Whanganui River in Aotearoa/New Zealand is the first river in the world to be recognized as a legal person, as a living and indivisible being. Māori river guardian Ned Tapa invites a First Nations Elder from Australia and his daughter, who are activists dedicated to saving their own dying river back home, on a five-day canoe trip down this sacred river. Joining them are Ned’s friends, his family, an international film crew and Ned's dog Jimmy. A canoe trip becomes a call to action to draw closer to nature and fight climate change through a fundamental value shift. Made over a three-year period, in close collaboration with the Whanganui Māori, the film is a positive, urgent call to action for the rights of nature: now the fastest growing legal movement in the world. Part of our FOOTPRINTS film strand The director Petr Lom, the producer Corinne van Egeraat and Sue Willman (supervisor of the Rights of Nature Toolkit at King's College London and Assistant Director in King’s Legal Clinic where she is developing the human rights and environmental law clinic) will join us after the film for a live Q&A. Corinne van Egeraat & Petr Lom are an internationally recognized filmmaking couple whose award-winning work has premiered at Berlin, Venice, IDFA and Sundance and has screened at over 450 festivals around the world and broadcast in more than 30 countries. They are driven by the need for creative storytelling in the service of movies that matter. More about their work: www.zindoc.nl Sue Willman is a senior lecturer/solicitor at King’s College where she leads the Human Rights and Environmental (HRE) Law Clinic. Inspired by indigenous communities around the world, she promotes Rights of Nature (RoN) in her work, partnering with river campaigners in the UK to use the toolkit to clean up our rivers. The HRE Clinic has also filed a legal complaint against Serbia making RoN arguments about a river there poisoned by a British mining company, killing the trout and endangering other species, along with Serbian NGO Earththrive.DocumentaryPT2H10M182024-10-20Ned Tapa
Desmond Canterbury
Richard Sidey
Petr Lom
Corinne van Egeraat
Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas
UK PREMIERE: I AM THE RIVER, THE RIVER IS ME + LIVE Q&A"UK PREMIERE: I AM THE RIVER, THE RIVER IS ME + LIVE Q&A"Showtimes
October 20, 2:30 pm
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