The Good Life / La Buena Vida + Lmn Panel & Wayúu Guests - 11th Native Spirit Film Festival

programme starts 6pm co-hosted and organised with LONDON MINING NETWORK

THE GOOD LIFE (LA BUENA VIDA)
Dir. Jens Schanze / 2015 / Wayúu, Colombia / 97'

PANEL with LONDON MINING NETWORK and Wayúu speaker Angelika Ortiz, FMW Fuerza de Mujeres Wayúu (Wayúu Women’s Force) and Luisa Fernandez, CINEP Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular (The Center for Research and Popular Education)

Jairo Fuentes is the young leader of the community of Tamaquito, a village in the forests of northern Colombia. Here, nature provides the people with everything they need to survive. For centuries, they’ve hunted in the mountains, foraged for fruit and reared hens, sheep and cattle. But the Wayúu community’s way of life is being destroyed by the El Cerrejón coal mine. This vast chasm extends for 700 square kilometres, making it the world’s largest open-cast coal mine. Every day, the pit gets deeper, gnawing away at the previously unspoilt landscape. The coal is exported all over the world. In Germany, the United Kingdom and Israel, in the Netherlands, Turkey, Japan and the USA, coal from El Cerrejón feeds the power stations which generate the electricity to keep our lives fast-paced, bright and warm.

Determined to save his community, Jairo sets out to negotiate with the mine's owners.

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