This Stolen Country of Mine
2024
Computer Files, Websites
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.
Main title:
Author:
Wiese, Marc, film directorVillavicencio, Fernando, actorJarrín Mosquera, Paúl, actorPragda (Firm), distributorKanopy (Firm), distributor
Imprint:
Pragda, 2022.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by Pragda in 2022.
Performers:
Fernando Villavicencio, Paúl Jarrín Mosquera
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
Spanish
Subject:
BRN:
482650
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/13863603/external-image - Cover Image