THE TEAM
THE TEAM
Hereditary Drumkeeper of the Womens’ Scalp Dance Society of the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma is a longtime activist, environmentalist, actress, and published author. Because of Casey’s work the Ponca Nation is the first Tribe in the State of Oklahoma to adopt the Rights of Nature Statute, and to pass a moratorium on Fracking on Tribal Lands. Casey was also instrumental in the drafting, and adoption of the first ever International Indigenous Women’s Treaty protecting the Rights of Nature. Casey often collaborates with I.E.N, Movement Rights and W.E.C.A.N.
CASEY CAMP-HORINEK
Melina is Lubicon Cree from Northern Alberta. She has worked on social, environmental and climate justice issues for the past 15 years. Currently a Fellow at the David Suzuki Foundation, Melina’s research is focused on Climate Change, Indigenous Knowledge and Renewable Energy. Melina holds a Masters degree in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria with a focus on Renewable Energy in First Nation communities. As a part of her Masters thesis Melina completed a 20.8 kW solar installation in her home community of Little Buffalo in the heart of the tar sands which powers the health centre. Melina is often collaborating with NDN, Indigenous Climate Action, Seeding Sovereignty and the Indigenous Clean Energy Network.
Photography: Ayşe Gürsöz
MELINA LABOUCAN-MASSIMO
Bryan Parras is a co-founder of Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (t.e.j.a.s.) and the Sierra Club of Texas Beyond Dirty Fuels campaign. He is a longtime environmental justice advocate based on Houston, TX. He co-founded the Librotraficante movement, serves as an Advisor to the Gulf Coast Fund, and sits on the board of the Environmental Support Center. Bryan was recently awarded a Gulf Coast Fellowship and has been working to help organizations use media for education, organizing and advocacy.
BRYAN PARRAS
Yudith is a queer Mexican-American artist, interpreter, and organizer, enjoying spending time in the bayous of Louisiana working on projects like CRY YOU ONE, Amor y Solidaridad, a solidarity house in support of undocumented Transwomen, and recently BanchaLenguas, a Language Justice interpreters collective. Currently, she is part of the core leadership circle for Another Gulf Is Possible and a youth organizer with Los Jardines Institute. For over 5 years, Yudith has been fighting for the rights of her fenceline community in Manchester, Houston in collaboration with T.E.J.A.Sand last year was named one of Grist.org 50 Fixers of 2018.
YUDITH NIETO
Patricia is Kichwa from SARAYAKU, Ecuador, and has helped lead Sarayaku’s struggle to protect the Living Forest in their ancestral Amazon territory from industrial extraction, including winning an historic case against the Ecuadorian government before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She is recognized nationally and internationally for defending the rights of indigenous peoples against oil companies and for amplifying the call to keep fossil fuels in the ground in the Amazon and across the globe.
PATRICIA GUALINGA
Bill is an American environmentalist, author, and journalist who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College[2] and leader of the climate campaign group 350.org. He has authored a dozen books about the environment, including his first, The End of Nature (1989), about climate change.
BILL MCKIBBEN
Back in 2014 Clément Guerra, French, a 32-year-old international marketing manager working in London and his German wife Sophie, studying pharmacy, could have settled down to a comfortable middle class life. But instead they took their savings, flew across the ocean and arrived in New York. Fast forward to 2020, their film follows Indigenous American women, from the Ecuadorian Amazon to the Tar Sands protests in Alberta, Canada, via the Texas oil fields, in their fight to preserve the livelihoods and culture of Indigenous communities and to protect the earth from climate change.
SOPHIE & CLEMENT GUERRA
Five years ago Pat made a decision that changed her life. Utilizing her experience of more than 20 years in sports and entertainment event management, she offered to oversee outreach for a friend’s documentary film. In doing so, she discovered the rewarding satisfaction of assisting dedicated filmmakers with spreading their social justice messages to audiences around the world.
PAT HARRIS DILEVA
Liana Lopez is a multi-platform journalist with experience writing, reporting and editing photography, audio and video in multiple digital formats. She has co-created and successfully implemented the Librotraficante Caravan campaign, which drew national attention earning New York Times and Houston Chronicle editorials. Liana is a Social Media Consultant and also produces and co-hosts Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say on 90.1 FM and www.KPFT.org (Pacifica Radio) in Houston, the fourth largest city in the country. As a freelance writer, reporter and photographer, her work has been published in the Houston Press and Phoenix New Times (Village Voice Media), 29-95.com (Houston Chronicle), Aztec Muse Magazine, Democracy Now, Free Speech Radio News and countless online publications
LIANA LOPEZ
Picture Motion is the leading social impact agency developing award-winning advocacy and marketing campaigns for films, television, and entertainment. Their collaborative approach unites storytellers with their network of activists, nonprofits, and foundations, to build social movements around must-see content. It’s their mission to leverage storytelling to inspire empathy, convene people, and ignite brave conversations and action
PICTURE MOTION
Film US impact partner as well as one of the film co-Producers, Janet is an environmental attorney and social change activist with expertise in water and health. She founded Seeding Sovereignty, birthed at Standing Rock to amplify the role of Indigenous knowledge and to de-expert and diversify the environmental movement. Janet is a former whistle blower and has worked in legal and leadership positions at EPA and national and international NGOs.
JANET MACGILLIVRAY
CREDITS
Directed By
Sophie Guerra
Clement Guerra
Produced by
EchoDoc Studio
Janet MacGillivray
Casey Camp-Horinek
Melina Laboucan-Massimo
Yudith Nieto
Bryan-Parras
Edited by
Emma Morris
Editing Advisors
Douglas Blush
Mark Weiss
Andre Singer
Director Of Photography
Clement Guerra
Production Sound Mixer / Boom Operator
Sophie Guerra
Original Score by
Charles Newman
Recorded at Cottage Sounds, Brooklyn, NY
Re-Recording Mixer
Kevin Wilson
Colorist
David Gauff
Animation
Lucy Animation Studio
PRODUCERS
An EchoDoc Studio Production
Executive Producers
Lush Cosmetics
Alexandra Johnes
Jacqueline Garcia
Giancarlo Canavesio
Katy Bettner
Nion McEvoy
Nancy Stephens
Aly Tharp
Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth
Jenifer Westphal
Kit Mallet
Tonya Mallet
Rikki Gagne
Associate Producers
Allison Hanes
Jamie Wolf
Christina Conklin
Clint Carleton
Dominic Boyer
Christopher Fleck
Scarlet October
GRAPHIC ANIMATORS
Creative Director
Silvia Prietov
Art Directors
Omar Andrés Penagos
Silvia Prietov
Designer and Illustrator
Omar Andrés Penagos
Storyboard Artist
William Cifuentes
Animators
William Cifuentes
Diego Doncel
Daniel Cuervo
Silvia Prietov
Clean up artists
Daniela Rueda
Hanna Isua Barrantes
Compositing
ALETA Post-production
Visual Communication, Web Design & Logo
Benjamin Mis
Additional Music
Charlie Rauh
Kalilah Rampanen
Kris Gruen
Pura Fe
Jennifer Kreisberg
Layla Locklear
Charly Lowry
Indigenous drummers from Edmonton
Chad Hollister
Indigenous drummers Tar Sands
Paul Casanova
Yasunidos
Film Score
“Warrior Stomp”
Written, Produced and Performed by JayBump
Courtesy of Coates Music
“Casey Be Runnin’”
Written and Performed by Motopony
Produced by Rob Cass at Abbey Road Studios
“A New Day in History”
Written by Kris Gruen, Chad Hollister, Charles Newman, David Sisko, Sandflower Dyson
Produced by David Sisko, Charles Newman
Courtesy of Mother West
CAST
In order of appearance
Bryan Parras
Juan Parras
The children of the community of Manchester
Liana Lopez
Yudith Nieto
Alfredo Torres
Josephine Mandamin
Melina Laboucan Massimo
Patricia Gualinga
Leila Salazar-Lopez
Michael Horse
Pennie Opal Plant
Casey Camp-Horinek
Gloria Ushigua Santi
Pura Fe
Jennifer Kreisberg
Layla Locklear
Charly Lowry
Kiera Dawn
Crystal Lameman
Bill McKibeen
Kandi White
Michael Horinek
Suzaatah Horinek
Jewell Horinek
Casey Alexandra Horinek
Osprey Orielle Lake
Clayton Thomas-Muller
Matheanna Williams
Mekasi Camp-Horinek
Kalilah Rampanen
Ta’ha (Amy George)
Roberto Gallegos
Jose Marinez
Annise D. Parker
Marta Crinejo
Jerry Davis
Anna Russel
Dwight A. Boykins
Tara Escudero
Jewell James
Robert Holler
Rueben George
Eugene Kung
Ta’Kaiya Blaney
Pulxaneeks
Billy Joe Laboucan
Maria Meequon
Charity Laboucan
Linda Massimo
Danza Azteca Taxcayolotl
Xavier Herrera
Marisela Orozco
Monica Villarreal
Julia Chuje Ruiz
Pedro Gualinga
Corina Gualinga
Sabino Gualinga
Mario Lopez Chuje
Esperanza Martinez
Joel Espinosa Barrera
Jorge Tacuri Aragon
Carlos Vives
Fernando Chuje Ruiz
Huberto Piaguaje
Donald Montecayo
Pablo Fajardo
Dallas Goldtooth
Reverend Yearwood
Neil Young
Blanca Chancosa
Cherri Foytlin
Emily Arasim
Tom Goldtooth
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Amy Goodman
Naomi Klein
Cormac Cullinan
José Gualinga
IN COLLABORATION WITH
Lush Cosmetics
The Fledgling Fund
Texas Environmental Services (T.E.J.A.S)
Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN)
Amazon Watch
Idle No More SF Bay
Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network (WECAN)
Acción Ecológica
Union of the people affected by Texaco (ADAPT)
Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN)
Rainforest Action Network
Movement Rights
Indigenous Climate Action
Sierra Club
Federación de las Comunidades Nativas del Tigre (FECONAT)
Climate Justice Alliance (CJA)
Indigenous Rising Media
The Chaikuni Institute
350.org
Botanical Park Los Yapas
David Suzuki Foundation
Catherine Donnelly Foundation
Raven Trust
Tides Foundation
Utah Film Center
SPECIAL THANKS TO THOSE WHO CONTRIBUTED TO OUR 2 CROWDFUNDINGS AND / OR SHOWED THEIR SUPPORT ALONG THE WAY
Abram Himelstein
Ada McMahon
Adam Zuckerman
Adrien Benoliel
Agnieszka Piechocka
Alain Thibault
Alan Formanek
Alberto Acosta
Alessandro Zekka
Alex Montero
Alexander Horvath
Alfredo Torres
Alice Dimitriu
Alison Ehara-Brown
Alyssa Tharp
Amandine Le Sergent
Amandine Roche
Amy Hutto
Andrea Nieblas
Andrej Farkasovsky
Andrew Bradford
Andrew Cobb
Andrew Dunn
Andrew Miller
Angela Mc Bride
Angela Mellor
Angie Torres
Anna Lee
Anna Mildner
Anna Parras
Anna Gerrard
Anne Blaney
Annick Pilote Letizi
Aquiles Muñoz
Art Browning
Ashton Orr-Frayn
Atossa Soltani
Avenida Productions
Ayse Gursoz
Bagbonon Arnaud
Barbara Ford
Barbara Levy
Basile Tainon
Beka Economopoulos
Belen Paez
Benjamin Wallner
Bernice Robinson
Bette Pierman
Brenda Ramirez
Brent Mathieu
Bunker Seyfert
Captain Dean A. Wilson
Carmen Llanes
Carol Rothman
Caroline Hansley-Mace
Charity Burgess
Charles Cybulski
Charlotte Guerra
Christelle pontico
Christina Conklin
Christina Gregory
Christina Sisk
Christine Altmann
Christine Boyle
Christine Gerbode
Christophe Bonneuil
Christopher Damon Fallon
Clara Hameline
Clement Robin
Constance Graham
Crystal Zevon
Crystal Zevon
Curtis Morrison
Damien Short
Daniel Ilario
Darrin Mortenson
David King
Deb Moens
Del Blaney
Desiree Kane
Diane Bailey
Diane Bedlin
Dominique Bourg
Doreen Bird
Dr. Vandana Shiva
Eko McHugh
Eliane Gourdeau
Elisabeth Guerra
Elizabeth Bernstein
Elizabeth Brossa
Ellen Powell
Emily Johnston
Emma Laia
Emmanuel Guajardo
Enrique Viale
Eriel Deranger
Ethan Nuss
Eva Hernandez
Eva Katharina Hellsberg
Fanny Véliz
Farah Chaibi
Farhad Ebrahimi
Felix Morrison
Filicio Pontes
Floriane Malot
Gabriela Aguilar
Gabriela Mildner
Gael Martineau
Gaston De Lapoyade
Giselle Melanson
Glen Riggs
Gosia Bryja
Greg Harman
Hadeel Assali
Harbeer Sandhu
Harold Verhagen
Helen Boehning
Helga Oppenauer
Hilton Kelly
Ibrahim AlHusseini
India Logan Riley
Isabelle Dedieu
Isabelle Leman
Ivan Halas
J.T Crawford
Jade Ramsey
Jason Mogus
Jason Opeña Disterhoft
Jean Darracq
Jean-Michel Plaçais
Jeanine Guerra
Jeanine Hagan
Jeff Cobb
Jeffrey Leary
Jennifer Goldberg
Jeremy Compostella
Jeremy Williams
Jessica Garcia
Jessica Hannon
Jim and Jessie Neu
Joanne Fanucchi
Joel Yodowitz
Johann Ederer
John Trautwein
Jonalea Neider
Jose Fachin
Josephine M Salazar
Joshua C Russell
Juan Tejeda
Judith Emerson
Judith Heilprin Robinson
Judith S. Sullivan
Julie Guerra
Julie Helm
Julien Gelly
Juliette Wolff
Justin Winters
Kcho Alvarado
Karl Dagoneau
Karla L Aguilar
Kary Cham
Kat Lo
Katherine Messer
Kathy DaSilva
Kelly Carson
Kelly Jo Bowman
Kevin Koenig
Kiki Wood
Kimberly Lorraine Todd
Kurt Klingbeil
Laëtitia M’belo-Abitbol
Lali YCox
Lara Cushing
Larisa Manescu
Laura Cusack
Leia Slaya
Leila Salazar-Lopez
Leo Cerda
Linda Harpe-Turner
Linda Massimo
Linda Sheehan
Lindsay Ofrias
Lisa Galinski
Lori j Lozano
Loris Simon
Luca Gabbi
Lynn Adamson
Lyssie Burden
Maiwenn Pardoe
Manari Kaji Ushigua Santi
Margaret Petcoff
Maria Cruz Nieto
Marianne Boire
Maribel Guevara
Marilaine Savard
Marilyn Bardet
Marion Kvaternik
Mark Decena
Mark Ruffalo
Mark Tallman
Martin MacKerel
Mathieu Challa
Mathieu Gefffard
Mathieu Guerra
Matt Hammer
Matthias Mildner
Mattia Rosa
Maurice Rebeix
Maya Zuckerman
Megan Carroll
Meghan Prince
Melanie Motts
Michael Dorsey
Michael ORourke
Michael Robles
Michaela Stannard
Michel Duruel
Michele Elichirigoity
Michelle Steinbrecher
Michelle Suarez
Mirian Cisneros
Mustafa Ali
Nancy Bleck
Nancy Foreman
Nancy S Bradford
Naomi Klein
Natalia Green
Nayeli Jimenez
Neha Mathew
Nikola Kotur
Nina Gualinga
Nnimmo Bassey
Oliver Kappler
Oma Ilse Schiddel
Pamela Arauz
Patricia MacDonald
Paul Coelho
Paul Paz y Miño
Philippe Desbroses
Philippe Dufour
Pirkko Karvonen
Quentin Lemarie-Bourseau
Rachel Caplan
Rae Breaux
Ramiro Avila
Rebecca Gawboy
Rebecca Holman
Renee Feltz
Richard Vahlhaus
Robert Tebby
Robin thibault
Roche leila
Rocher Sabrina
Romilly Cavanaugh
Rosa Fallon
Rosalyn Newis
Richard, M O’Connell
Ruth Nyambura
Sadia Montlaur
Sarah Goodspeed
Sarah Kerremans
Scarlett Russell
Scott McDaniel
Sean Matthews
Sebastien Saugues
Sebi Medina-Tayac
Sham Dhari
Shannon Biggs
Sharon Linezo Hong
Sheila Stephen Watkins Bryan
Shelley Ottenbrite
Simon Hebdon
Simone Littledale
Sofia Ribeiro
Sophie Pinchetti
Soshana Wechsler
Steven Donziger
Steven Nienhaus
Sunny Schiller
Sunshine Ranae Nomura
Susie Moreno
Tamo Campos
Tarek Hijaz
Thane Maxwell
The Yasunidos
Thibault Bagot
Thomas Evans
Timo Rissanen
Tiva Quinn
Timothy Helmstetter
Tom McSteen
Tracey Friesen
Tracy Barnett
Tricia Stevens
Tzeporah Berman
Ursula Baumgartner
Vanessa Acevedo
Vanessa Ronald
Vincent Hougas
Virginia Brownfield
Virginia Coyle
Vivian Billy
Wade Davis
Wassim Awad
Wendy Carter
Winona LaDuke
Yolanda Anguiano
Zuzana Gaziova