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DISCUSSIONS ON THE UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES is a one-hour work in progress on one of the most-discussed pieces of legislation in UN history. For over 20 years, governments and indigenous peoples have been discussing how to apply the universal declaration of Human Rights to the specific situations of indigenous peoples. This desperately needed Declaration, which articulated only the most basic of needs, was nonetheless rejected in November 2006. In this film, governmental and indigenous leaders present their issues of concern and the implications for the future.
HUNTED LIKE ANIMALS is an eye-opening documentary about an ongoing, but unknown, genocide
— against the Hmong people in the jungles of Laos. Coerced into joining the CIA’s
anti-communist efforts during the Viet Nam war, the Hmong in hiding are still mercilessly hunted,
attacked, raped, tortured and killed by the military. Since 2004, the military crackdown on the
Hmong has intensified and those who can escape seek refuge in Thailand. In this documentary, the Hmong Lao refugees speak for many
thousands of voiceless people still trapped in the jungle, surrounded by Lao and Vietnamese
soldiers.
WorldFest 2008 SILVER REMI Award; Official Selection Amnesty International Film Festival 2008
ELIMINATED WITHOUT BLEEDING is a one-hour documentary on the Khmer Krom indigenous peoples
from the Mekong Delta in Southern Vietnam. The Khmer Krom explain how they are oppressed and
eliminated as a peoples. There is no freedom of speech, religion or culture. Aggressively
Vietnam-ized, the Khmer Krom struggle to maintain their way of life and identity.
Received the New York Festivals International Film & Video Award, Documentaries 2008; OfficiaL Selection Lowell Film Festival 2008.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND THE UNITED NATIONS, Vol.1 is a thirty-minute long documentary, to promote and raise-awareness on indigenous issues within the UN system, to politicians and diplomats. It was commissioned by the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). English, Spanish, or French subtitles: Received the New York Festivals International Film & Video Award, International Affairs 2007; Official Selection 2008: Montreal Human Rights Film Festival; Oxford Brookes University Human Rights Film Festival; Human Rights Film Festival Aotearoa New Zealand
Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations, Vol. 1
Rebecca Sommer, for the Secretariat of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), 2006
Pueblos Indígenas y las Naciones Unidas, Vol. 1
Rebecca Sommer, película realizada para la Secretaría del Foro Permanente para las Cuestiones Indígenas de la ONU, 2006
Les Peuples Autochtones et les Nations Unies, Vol.1
Rebecca Sommer, film pur le Secretariat de l'Insstance Permanente sur les Questions Autochtones de l'ONU, 2006
THARY, a 2-minute video which was commissioned by Sesame Street, PBS. A day in the life of a four-year-old Khmer Krom girl, from southern Vietnam.
Official Selection 2008: KIDS FIRST! Film Festival, Danville International Film Festival.
KHMER KROM BUDDHISTS, a 2-minute video- Buddhist Moon ceremony _Khmer Krom- from southern Vietnam.
DÉFILÉ, a 3-minute long video excerpt of 8 commercials, screened as a video installation on 99 monitors for the launching of Défilé makeup.
ADOPTION OF THE DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGNEOUS PEOPLES, a 6-minute long news reel video, about the historic adoption of the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the U.N. Generel Assembly, September 17, 2007.
GIRL CHILD EARTH DANCE, a 3-minute long video; Brazilian kids dancing belly-dance.
APSARA, a 3-minute long video — Apsara dancer in Cambodia.
KINDING SINDAW, a 3-minute long video of indigenous peoples dance from the Philippines.
REDWOOD FOREST, a 3-minute long Art/Dance video n the Redwood forest