Canadian Premiere

This film was commissioned by the Secretariat of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues to promote and raise awareness on Indigenous Issues within the UN system, to politicians and diplomats.

Rebecca Sommer
Rebecca Sommer is a New-York-based and German-born human rights advocate, journalist, artist and filmmaker, founder of Earth Peoples and the representative for the Society for Threatened Peoples International, a human rights NGO in consultative status to the United Nations. She lived and worked in India, South Africa, Peru, Brazil, England and the United States. In 2007, she finalized two documentaries on human rights violations committed against indigenous peoples in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. Created specifically to raise awareness on pressing issues faced by indigenous peoples around the world, her documentaries which have won several prices are used by human rights advocates, non-governmental organizations and the affected peoples themselves to lobby those who could help them.