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Yale Tropical Resources Institute
Dr. Michael Dove, Director
Nathaniel Delafield, Program Director
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
210 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
U.S.A.
phone 203.432.3660
fax 203.436.4404
www.yale.edu/tri
©2006 by Yale Tropical Resources Institute
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TRI Film Series
TRI Film Series, Spring 2004
A series centered on the local struggles provoked by extraction of natural resources such as gold, timber, and water in the U.S. and abroad.
February 12
Es un Monstro Grande y Pisa Fuerte, 2003, 50 min: This film made by a current FES student, documents community struggles against a World Bank-proposed mining project in rural Ecuador. The story is told using first-hand footage of existing mining operations and revealing interviews with villagers, activists and government officials. Filmmaker David Kneas will be on hand to answer questions about the film and the on-going conflict.
February 19
Choropampa:The Price of Gold, 2003, 75 min: On June 2, 2000 at the Yanacocha goldmine in the Peruvian Andes, 1 151-kg liquid mercury spill contanimated three mountain villages. The environmental catastrophe turned the quiet village of Choropampa into a hotbed of civil resistance even as the mine, jointly owned by a Peruvian company, the World Bank, and Colorado's Newmont Mining Corp., insisted the problem was quickly resolved. This documentary, by Ernesto Caballos, follows the community's valiant struggle for health care and justice over a two-year period. Guest Speaker: Payal Sampat, Director of international programs at the Mineral Policy Center,(www.mineralpolicy.org) will speak about the heavy social and environmental costs of gold mining, and MPC's current campaign to educate gold consumers about their choices.
February 26
Development Flows flows from the Barrel of the Gun, 2003, 56 min: Modern India's rapidly globaizing economy has been characterized by foreign investment in large-scale infrastructure projects like dams, ports and mines, often imposed on communities despite vocal and even violent protest. Through cases in 5 regions, maker Biju Toppo Meghnath documents a troubling pattern of human rights violations that occur when local residents and police-backed economic interests collide over the question of "development for whom?"
March 4
Unconquering the Last Frontier, 2002, 57 min: This film brings us to Washington State and examines the costs of our U.S. electricity habit. Maker Robert Lundahl tells the story of the 90-year long struggle of the Elwa tribal community against Olympic Power, which erected an illegal hydropower dam on tribal lands in 1910. The tribe's struggle to bring to light the side effects of "progress" have born fruit: as of this year, the two dams on the Elwha will be removed by the federal government, in the largest dam decommissioning project in the world.
 
TRI Film Series, Spring 2003
January 21
2 FILMS:
Seattle Syndrome, 25 min: Were the WTO protesters right in their effort to protect workers and the environment from exploitation?
Borderline Cases: Environmental Matters at the US-Mexico Border, 65 min: The environmental impact of the 2,000 factories (maquiladoras) on the US-Mexico border.
February 4
Rum Business: Conservation, Tourism, and the Bedouin of Wadi Rum, 28 min: Conservation and mobile peoples in the Wadi Rum Nature Reserve in Jordan, complex interactions between mobile peoples, conservationists and government agencies.
February 11
Trinkets and Beads, 52 min: The oil company MAXUS and Huaroni Indians of the Amazon. The battle waged by a small band of Amazonian warriors to preserve their way of life.
February 18
Since the Company Came, 52 min: In the Solomon Islands extensive logging forces the Haporai people to confront social, cultural and ecological disintegration.
March 25th
Banking on Disaster, 78 min: The grave consequences of building a road through the heart of Amazonia.
April 8th
Narmada: A Valley Rises, 86 min:A compelling and intimate portrait of a 200 kilometre non-violent Gandhian march involving 6000 participants, raises critical and universal issues of human-rights, social justice, and development within a democracy.
April 15th
Seeds of Plenty; Seeds of Sorrow, 52 min: The darker side of the Green Revolution.
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