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Earth, water, woman : community & sustainability in Trinidad & Tobago / Sarafina Productions ; directors, Sarah Feinbloom & Alexandra Swatt Guild ; producers Sarah Feinbloom, Diana Fox, Alexandra Swatt Guild.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fondes Amandes Community Re-forestation Project.
- Reforestation--Trinidad and Tobago.
- Reforestation.
- Sustainable forestry--Trinidad and Tobago.
- Sustainable forestry.
- Green movement--Trinidad and Tobago.
- Green movement.
- Environmentalism--Trinidad and Tobago.
- Environmentalism.
- Rastafarians.
- Forests and forestry.
- Women in conservation of natural resources.
- Women in sustainable development.
- Women and the environment.
- Environmental conditions.
- Trinidad and Tobago--Environmental conditions.
- Trinidad and Tobago.
- Women and the environment--Trinidad and Tobago.
- Women in sustainable development--Trinidad and Tobago.
- Women in conservation of natural resources--Trinidad and Tobago.
- Forests and forestry--Trinidad and Tobago.
- Rastafarians--Trinidad and Tobago.
- Genre:
- Environmental films.
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (23 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Pasadena, California] : [Distributed by] GOOD DOCS, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- This documentary spotlights the Fondes Amandes Community Re-Forestation Project in Trinidad and Tobago, and its charismatic leader Akilah Jaramogi, in their ongoing efforts to transform barren hillsides into a vibrant, healthy ecosystem. A micro solution for the macro problem of climate change, this documentary urges young viewers everywhere to examine their relationship to Mother Earth. Three decades ago Akilah, a Rastafarian woman, settled on a barren, deforested hillside, blighted with floods in the rainy season and fires in the dry season. Together with her late husband, Tacuma, they started a family and reforested over 150 acres, restoring health to the hills and the watershed just outside the capital city of Port-of-Spain. When her husband died, Akilah continued this work, initiating the Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project (FACRP), training community members as stewards of the forests and waters. Today Fondes Amandes is a thriving village atop a flourishing forest of 150 acres where residents have planted about 60,000 seedlings over the past 30 years. The community is regularly visited by international dignitaries and Akilah is heralded as the Wangari Maathai of Trinidad & Tobago.
- Participant:
- Featuring, Akilah Jaramogi.
- Credits:
- Cinematograther, Alexandra Swatt Guild ; editors, Sarah Feinbloom, Alexandra Swatt Guild.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Sarafina Productions,©2013.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 15, 2021).
- Publisher Number:
- gd-eww Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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