Director of “WATER FOR LIFE”
Will Parrinello
Water For Life explores the collision of water rights, Indigenous beliefs, and resource extraction through the lives of three community leaders in Central and South America. Our protagonists face harassment and death threats as they fight the powerful forces that threaten the environmental, cultural and economic survival of their communities.
Director of “WATER FOR LIFE”
Will Parrinello
We have immersed ourselves in our protagonist’s lives, making a long-term commitment to their stories, to show the long arc of their journeys defending their water and their lives.
In El Salvador we’ve filmed Francisco Pineda for a decade, Berta Cáceres’ in Honduras for eight years, and Alberto Curamil in Chile for five. We’ve forged deep ties with our protagonists, their families and communities, and have worked tirelessly to build trust and gain access to people on both sides of the issues. Our footage takes viewers inside the human drama we witnessed and filmed, as these stories unfolded over many years.
Our filmmaking process has been collaborative, working with local journalists and filmmakers who have helped us document these stories when we aren’t able to be in country. This approach has allowed us to engage our subjects and their respective communities on a deeper level. Based on the trust we’ve built with all stakeholders in our film we’ve been able to co-create our film’s narratives with these partners. Not just “taking pictures”, we are collaborating to make a film together, to produce authentic stories of living, breathing people, their realities and their lives.
Through our in country advisors – including community leaders, academics, scientists, and NGO leaders, we vet information for sensitivity and accuracy. We will share our final rough cut with these expert advisors to insure that our stories are culturally sensitive and that they do not put our protagonists in harm’s way.
We are thrilled to have Mexican actor Diego Luna (“Andor”, “Narcos: Mexico” and “E Tu Mama Tambien”) narrating our film. Diego will elevates our narration with his dramatic interpretation of the script and he also brings his significant social media presence to bear on our impact and outreach campaign. His two non profit organizations, Ambulante and El Dia Despues will also help echo our film’s inspiring stories of Indigenous leaders fighting to protect Mother Earth.
The popular Mexican Mixtec singer Lila Downs and Chilean Mapuche singer/songwriter Daniela Millaleo sing a duet of Daniela’s song “Ko” (Water) for our film’s closing credits. Lila has drawn the attention of her millions of fans to our film through her strong social media presence. We produced a music video of these two talented musicians singing “Ko” for our impact campaign.
1001cuts explores the careers of the daughters of Title IX through the experiences of surgeons. Social and cultural change in the 1970’s allowed for the opportunity to train and be included into this high stakes professional environment. This film documents the pervasive stereotypes and gender-based discrimination that persist within workplaces designed for, and still controlled by men.
Dr. Sarah Temkin is a first time film maker inspired to make a film about women by her lived experience as a surgeon.
