FILM: _Powerlands_

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso

"In _Powerlands_ , Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso, a young Navajo filmmaker, investigates the displacement of Indigenous people and the devastation of the environment caused by the same chemical companies that have exploited the land where she was born. She travels to the La Guajira region in rural Colombia, the Tampakan region of the Philippines, the Tehuantepec Isthmus of Mexico, and the protests at Standing Rock. In each case, she meets Indigenous women leading the struggle against the same corporations that are causing displacement and environmental catastrophe in her own home. Inspired by these women, Ivey Camille brings home the lessons from these struggles to the Navajo Nation."

Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso is an award-winning queer Navajo filmmaker. She started making films at the age of nine, and at the age of 13 made the award-winning fiction film in the Footsteps of Yellow Woman, based on the true story of her great-great-great grandmother Yellow Woman, who lived through the Navajo Long Walk of 1864- 1868. The film screened in over 90 film festivals and won 11 awards. At the age of 19, Ivey-Camille began work on _Powerlands_ , which has since won critical praise and awards including The 2022 Rigoberta Menchú Grand Prize.

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