Mixed Voices Raised:
Environmental Advocacy Panel + A Last Stand for Lelu Film-screening
HAPA Society / Hapa-palooza presents A Last Stand for Lelu film screening with hapa environmental advocacy panel featuring the film’s co-director Tamo Campos (Founder of Beyond Boarding), Anne Casselman (Environmental journalist), Toby Barazzuol (Owner of Eclipse Awards) and Kai Nagata (Communications Director at Dogwood Initiative). Panelist will explore the connection between their passion for environmental activism and being of mixed heritage. Moderated by Hapa-palooza co-founder Zarah Martz. In association with the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society.
- Date: June 1, 2016 Time: 7pm to 8:30pm
- Location: VPL Central Branch - Alice MacKay room
- Free Public Event
A LAST STAND FOR LELU
Produced & Directed by Farhan Umedaly (VoVo Productions) & Tamo Campos (Beyond Boarding)
2016, Canada, 24 minutes
A great injustice is being done on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, B.C., the sacred and traditional territory of the Lax Kw'alaams people for over 10,000 years. The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on the island – Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian energy giant Petronas, without consent.
The Lax Kw'alaams are the keepers of Lelu Island and its connected Flora Bank, a massive sand bar that is part of the Skeena River estuary and known by fisheries biologists as some of the most important salmon habitat in Canada. The project would devastate the Skeena River, the natural wildlife and countless communities in the path of the LNG pipeline that will feed the terminal with fracked gas from Northeastern B.C.
The Lax Kw'alaams have voted unanimously against the project and became legendary when they rejected a $1.15 billion dollar deal from Petronas in an attempt by the company to gain consent.
Ignoring the voice of the Lax Kw’alaams, Petronas, with full backing of the Provincial Government have illegally begun drilling into Flora Bank where they now face off against warriors of the Lax Kw'alaams who have occupied the island since August 2015.
Join the resistance of the Lax Kw’alaams on both land and sea in ‘A Last Stand for Lelu’.
Worldwide debut February 15, 2016: Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival (VIMFF)
www.vimff.org
www.vovoproductions.com
www.beyondboarding.org
