Our Children’s River
In 2022, Encompass Films partnered with the Honnold Foundation to produce a film about the Kofan indigenous community in the Ecuadorian rainforest. This community, after bearing the brunt of the effects of colonization for the last several hundred years, is now threatened by large energy companies that aim to extract resources from their territory.
The Honnold Foundation is partnered with the Ceibo Alliance, an organization of 4 indigenous nationalities, including the Kofan. Together, they have worked to distribute solar energy within tribal territories, providing tribes with increased autonomy. In this film, we meet several members of the Kofan community of Sinangoe and learn about their efforts to guard their territory and document encroachment on their ancestral land.
This project is in post-production.
Director: Dominic Gill