9/4/2023 0 Comments Two worlds collide snl![]() ![]() Garcia and his allies pushed through legislation that auctioned off such rights without even consulting the occupants of those “communal lands.” Unsurprisingly, those occupants were furious. Trouble was, most of those resources (steel, natural gas, oil, etc.) required extraction from constitutionally protected lands belonging to native peoples who have lived there long before the arrival of Europeans. Winner of a World Cinema documentary competition prize for best first feature at Sundance, Heidi Brandenburg Sierralta and Mathew Orzel’s film will be primarily of interest to specialty broadcasters and streaming distributors.Īfter showing some of the ruinous pollution left behind by industrial “progress” in Amazonian rainforest areas, destroying both the environment and the local residents’ traditional ways of life, “When Two Worlds Collide” commences its chronological narrative with then-president Alan Garcia’s 2007 invitation to foreign (especially American) companies to invest in Peru’s natural-resources riches. That conflict flared into contentious, highly publicized strikes and violence in 2009, which are depicted here in alarmingly immediate on-the-ground footage shot by participants on both sides. ![]() “When Two Worlds Collide” offers a vivid if unabashedly partisan depiction of the clash between indigenous Peruvian minorities and government interests bent on “opening up” protected tribal lands to multinational-corporation mining, drilling and clear-cutting.
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