On January 29, 2017, Human Rights Watch hosted its Film Club Special Screening and Discussion of When Two Worlds Collide. The movie was followed by a Q&A with HRW's Jose Miguel Vivanco, Director of the Americas Division, Atossa Soltani, Amazon Watch Founder, and Filmmaker Heidi Brandenburg, moderated by Keely Badger, Film Club Committee member.
A contemporary apocalyptic story of a man, of a people, and of the fate of one of our planet’s most valuable natural resources, the Amazonian Rainforest. In this documentary, audiences are taken into the line of fire between opposing Peruvian leaders who will stop at nothing to keep their goals intact. On one side is President Alan Garcia who begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous Amazonian land. He is met with fierce opposition from indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, whose speeches against Garcia’s actions prove a powerful rallying cry to his supporters. When Garcia continues to ignore their pleas, a tense war of words erupts into deadly violence.A contemporary apocalyptic story of a man, of a people, and of the fate of one of our planet’s most valuable natural resources, the Amazonian Rainforest. In this documentary, audiences are taken into the line of fire between opposing Peruvian leaders who will stop at nothing to keep their goals intact. On one side is President Alan Garcia who begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous Amazonian land. He is met with fierce opposition from indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, whose speeches against Garcia’s actions prove a powerful rallying cry to his supporters. When Garcia continues to ignore their pleas, a tense war of words erupts into deadly violence.