Just 3 people talking / a Joniiwoks prodokshon ; written, directed, and produced by Joan Cambridge-Mayfield, Jeremy Jacob Peretz, Bassidy Dolly, aka, the Guyana rainforest bag-lady.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Cambridge, Joan, screenwriter, director, producer.

Peretz, Jeremy Jacob, screenwriter, director, producer, editor of moving image work.

Dolly, Bassidy, screenwriter, director, producer.

Joniiwoks Prodokshons, publisher, production company.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use--Guyana.

Land use.

Guyana--Social conditions.

Guyana.

Genre:

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (45 minutes)

Other Title:

Just three people talking

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Joniiwoks Prodokshons, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Not many Black women own a piece of the Amazon rainforest in our protracted age of gendered and racialized extraction. This filmic meditation introduces audiences to one such person, Aunty Joan, who in reality may not be just one person, and whose possession of this precious 357 acres of land is far from settled. Informed by Afro-Indigenous Guyanese Spiritualist -- or Komfa --philosophies and practices, Joan is also Dolly, an ancestor spirit known to be Bassidy, a Creolese word meaning something close to "beyond normality." Joan, a journalist and novelist now in her eighties, has for decades struggled along with her guide Bassidy Dolly to secure legal rights to occupy Yukuriba Heights, a once-self-sustainable organic farm and arts commune situated deep in the Amazonian Essequibo.

Participant:

Kinte Abena, Lester Andrews, the Primo Brothers.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed May 09, 2025).

OCLC:

1514618338