From One Earth Film Fest: VIRTUAL

CHICAGO-AREA PREMIERE. FILM DESCRIPTION: The Vale do Javari is the second largest Indigenous territory in Brazil and is home to 5,000 Indigenous peoples from 6 tribes as well as the largest population of people living without any contact with the outside world in the entire Amazon, and some say the world. Though the Javari has been designated for the tribes living there, there is looming pressure to increase harmful resource extraction which in other parts of the Amazon has led to environmental degradation. With Hepatitis rates as high as 50-80%, this preventable infectious disease brought in by outsiders is decimating the population and threatening their very survival.

Céline Cousteau/2019/78 min/People & Culture, Conservation

Join us afterwards for a post-film discussion with Tita Alvira, Andes-Amazon Senior Program Manager Keller Science Action Center at the Field Museum; Daniella Pereira, Vice President of Community Conservation at Openlands; and a representative of the American Indian Center. Learn about related action opportunities from the above panelists, as well as Northeastern IL University student groups. Facilitator: Amy Rosenthal, Rowe Family Director of the Keller Science Action Center at the Field Museum. Refreshments will be available.

Doors open 30 minutes before start time. Arrive early to avoid lines and get best seats. ADA compliant accessible venue. Teens and young adults encouraged to attend. "PG-13" May contain heavy themes, graphic images or language.