The Whale Lagoon: Documentary preview screening
Event Start Date: November 17, 2023 6:00 PM
Event End Date: November 17, 2023 8:00 PM
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The Whale Lagoon | Documentary preview screening
with Francisco Campos-Lopez & Xiye Bastide
Friday, November 17 | 6-8pm | Hippodrome Theatre
Presented by UF's International Ethnography Lab
A documentary project directed by Francisco Campus-Lopez about Laguna SanIgnacio, the last pristine gray whale breeding ground and nursery on the PacificCoast of Baja California. The laguna was the focus of an unprecedented successful international campaign to stop a proposed Mitsubishi- Mexican Government salt works there a generation ago and continues to be a site of innovative community-based sustainability efforts. Recently, the project expanded, bringing on Xiye Bastida to connect the whale lagoon project that started a generation ago to the challenge of climate change facing this generation.
Followed by a Q&A with Francisco Campos-Lopez and Xiye Bastida
Francisco Campos-Lopez was born in a small town in Chile, and has been shooting since he was a young child. His award winning film, Acassis, -“Best Thriller Award” at the New York International Independent Film Festival 2007- has been shown worldwide.The New York press proclaimed him as one of “the upcoming Latin directors to watch”. 2011 marks his break into an international career.
Xiye Bastida is a climate justice activist based in New York City. She is an organizer with Fridays For Future and the co-founder of Re-Earth Initiative, an international youthled organization that focuses on highlighting the intersectionality of the climate crisis. Bastida was the recipient of the 2018 UN Spirit Award and currently attends the University of Pennsylvania.
Free and open to the public!
Questions? Email Unna Yared, uyared@ufl.edu
Cosponsored by the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere