Working in close partnership with indigenous movements LifeMosaic
focuses on producing and disseminating educational films for
indigenous peoples and rural communities. In partnership with Tebtebba
and AMAN, we recently produced "Fever", a 4-part climate change
educational film based on the voices of indigenous peoples in the
Philippines, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Indonesia. Dubbed into 6
languages, "Fever" is designed to inform and empower indigenous
communities across the tropics and to be a tool for grass-roots
facilitators, helping strengthen local movements in their awareness
raising and advocacy work on climate change and indigenous peoples
rights.
The films are primarily for use by indigenous and tribal communities
and grassroots partners as tools for community empowerment and have
been distributed extensively to communities in Indonesia, Latin
America and parts of Africa, sparking discussions and further action.
Other ways that the films are being used is at training's and
workshops, festivals, in schools and universities and in government
policy discussions
You can watch the films online at www.lifemosaic.net or watch a short
trailer at http://vimeo.com/36781761
We can provide the films free of charge to indigenous communities and
their support organisations so if you have any relevant grassroots
contacts you think might be interested, please get in touch. Also if
you feel that they are appropriate for including on your website let
me know and i'll send you the embed codes and film information.
Quote from users of the films
Pasang Sherpa, Federation of Indigenous Nationalities, Nepal:
We have used Fever a lot. The symbolic imagery is very helpful for us to help
communities understand the concepts that we find hard to explain. The
video opens the discussion forums. What can we do, what is our
strategy, how must we change before we are adversely affected.
Niko Ainusi, West Papua:
Now I know about the climate and indigenous peoples" rights,
so the companies and the government better not come
and lie to the people in my village anymore. I will watch "Fever" with
my community and when people know the content, we can declare whether
we accept or refuse a company that wants to come into our territory.
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