NCLAFF: Low Hanging Fruit
Date: October 24, 2019
Time: 7:00pm
Address: Fed Ex Global Education Center, Mandela Auditorium, Chapel Hill
Dir. Kaley Clements. Mexico/USA/China. 2019. 50 min.
Low Hanging Fruit follows avocados as a commodity in Michoacán, the only state in México allowed to export the product into the USA. Through this seemingly monopolistic practice, Low Hanging Fruit uncovers the social conflicts and environmental problems spurring the ongoing genocide of the Indigenous Purepecha People, the devastation of forests and other public lands, and connects it to migration into the US. Thus exposing the multifaceted layers created by the structure of a globalizing economy that allows for 80 percent of the world’s supply of avocados to come from a region notorious for being controlled by the drug cartels now known as the green cartels.
Preceded by the short:
Konagxeka: The story of the Maxakali’s Flood
Director: Isael Maxakali e Charles Bicalho. Brazil. 2016. 13 min.
Language: Maxakali (English subtitles)
Director Charles Bicalho will be present to discuss the film. Konãgxeka in the maxakali indigenous language means “big water.” It’s the maxakali version of the great flood. As a punishment because of selfishness and greed of men, the yãmîy spirits send the “big water.” One of the directors is representative of the Maxakali indigenous people in the state of Minas Gerais, southeast Brazil. The illustrations for the film were made by indigenous Maxakali during workshops held at Aldeia Verde (Maxakali Green Village).
Parking available in parking garage for $1 for the evening.