The Illusion of Abundance – Now Streaming on Docuseek
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The Illusion of Abundance
58 min. | Closed Captioned
A film by Matthieu Lietaert and Erika Gonzalez Ramirez
"Highly Recommended. Despite featuring stories of struggle, the examples shown in the film do provide a glimmer of hope for local communities as their efforts are not always in vain.”
Kathleen H. Flynn, EMRO
The Illusion of Abundance tells the stories of environmental activists who are being killed worldwide as they fight against transnational corporations. Three women from Latin America share the common goal of leading the fight against modern conquistadors. Whereas governments and corporations, trapped in a global race towards unlimited growth, need to get the cheapest raw materials, these three women tell us a story of tireless courage: how to keep fighting to protect nature when your life is at risk?

"Colonialism is not over!", said the environmental defender, Berta Cáceres, a few months before being murdered at her home. Every year 200 defenders are being killed worldwide. Two out of three in Latin America alone.

Earlier this month an arrest warrant was issued for the suspected mastermind, Daniel Atala Midence, the former financial manager of the hydroelectric company DESA, in Berta Cáceres's assassination in 2016. Cáceres led the fight against DESA’s hydroelectric dam on a river in Honduras, which is sacred to the Lenca people.

The Illusion of Abundance is not only a film about those who pay the high price of ‘development’, it is above all a film about the globalization of three women from the Latin America environmental resistance and their conviction to hunt down transnational corporations, wherever they hide.
Screened at multiple festivals around the world, garnering several awards, The Illusion of Abundance, from First Hand Films, is now streaming exclusively on Docuseek for education.

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