(Nuestro País Robado)
Please be advised that this film contains images of gun violence.
Free and Open to the Public
Date: Thursday, Feb. 15
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Wells Hall B122 (Directions HERE)
Genre: Documentary
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
Country: Ecuador 🇪🇨
Duration: 93 minutes
Presented by:
- Cristóbal Martinez, Film Collective
- Bruno Takahashi, Professor of Environmental Journalism and Communication at Michigan State University, Knight Center for Environmental Journalism
ABOUT THE FILM
Chinese mining in Ecuador’s mountains sets the stage for an epic battle between eco-guerrillas and a corrupt government in an intensely dramatic documentary.
This Stolen Country of Mine follows Paúl Jarrín Mosquera, who leads the indigenous resistance against the exploitation of their land. Meanwhile, China uses the Ecuadorian government to turn the country into one of its new colonies, having made the country dependent on credit through a series of corrupt and greedy treaties. When journalist Fernando Villavicencio exposes these plots and gets access to the contracts between China and Ecuador, the government wants him silenced too. Both men are fighting for freedom in this battle against a superpower.
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Marc Wiese, the film exposes China’s massive hunger for natural resources and how during the last decade it has been aggressively operating to obtain access to these resources in Ecuador. The country is now stuck with the most Chinese debts in Latin America.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Marc Wiese, born in Dortmund in 1966, has been making documentaries for 25 years and is a member of the Federal Association of Directors. He has worked in many conflict areas around the world and has won numerous international awards for his films, which include Kanun, Picture of Napalm Girl, Camp 14, and We Hold the Line.
MSU Latinx Film Festival 