MOTHER OF ALL RIVERS
Director: Will Parrinello
Producer: Will Parrinello
2015 | 9 min
Honduras
Languages: English
Narrated by Robert Redford, Mother of All Rivers illustrates how one person can effect extraordinary change. In a country with growing socioeconomic inequality and human rights violations, Berta Cáceres rallied her indigenous Lenca people, waging a grassroots campaign to successfully pressure the world’s largest dam builder to withdraw from building the Agua Zarca Dam. In a country with some of the highest murder rates in the world, Cáceres’ victory to protect her sacred Rio Gualcarque, brought hope to activists fighting irresponsible development in Honduras and throughout Latin America. But Berta paid the ultimate price for defending the earth – as she was gunned down by four assassins while asleep in her bed.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Documentary Short Finalist, SIMA 2017
Official Selection, Wild & Scenic Film Festival
Environmental Film Category, The MY HERO project International Film Festival