OIL AND WATER
Screening
Lecture Hall 1

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3,
3:30 to 6:00 pm

Meet- Cofan Chief Randy Borman – The filmmaker: Evergreen Alum Laurel Spellman Smith and Various regional tribal members

Oil & Water is the coming of age story of two boys as they each confront one of the world’s worst toxic disasters. Hugo comes to America to fight for the survival of his tribe in the Ecuadorian Amazon, while David goes to Ecuador to launch the world’s first company to certify oil as “fair trade.” Can Hugo become the leader his tribe so desperately wants him to be? Will David clean up one of the world’s dirtiest industries? This documentary film is an intimate portrait of two young people finding their voices and trying to beat incredible odds. Their journeys lead them to explore what could be a more just future, not just for the people of the Amazon, but for all people around the world born with oil beneath their feet. Eight years in the making, Oil & Water is a shocking and inspiring David and Goliath story. For background on the film, see www.oilandwaterdocumentary.com

Winner: Jury & Audience Awards – BEST DOCUMENTARY – Northampton International Film Festival Winner: Grand Prize – BEST DOCUMENTARY – Audience Award at Rhode Island International Film Festival Winner: GREEN PLANET Award – Rhode Island International Film Festival

Zoltan Grossman (faculty) and Micah McCarty (Special Assistant to the President on Tribal Relations) will make brief introductions about the significance of this film, in reflection of related fossil-fuel topics currently facing North American Indigenous peoples.

We will be holding a potluck-style reception in another room, to immediately follow the Q. & A. at the end of the screening.

Classes are welcome;
please inform Micah at mccartmi@evergreen.edu
and Zoltan at grossmaz@evergreen.edu
Free and open to the campus and Olympia community.
Cheryl Simrell King, PhD ~ Director, Master of Public Administration Program ~ Member of the Faculty ~ The Evergreen State College ~

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