Rejeito.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

de Filippis, Pedro, director.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tailings dams--Accidents--Brazil--Minas Gerais.

Tailings dams.

Environmental disasters--Brazil--Minas Gerais.

Environmental disasters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (01:15:24)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Good Docs, 2023.

Language Note:

Closed-captions in English.

Summary:

Residents of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais are waging a David-and-Goliath battle against a multinational mining company. Iron ore mining produces waste that is stored in river basins retained by huge, poorly constructed dams. The people who live nearby are in great danger. The last catastrophic dam failure occurred in 2019, when a torrent of red mud engulfed countless villages, killing 2702 people and causing a vast environmental disaster. Yet so far domestic nor international politics have done anything to stand in the way of the multinational, multi-billion-dollar company: plans for a brand new mine are already underway. Rejeito depicts the State mining committee member and environmentalist Maria Teresa Corujo in her tireless, unequal fight against the scandalously indifferent mining giant, and follows a group of residents who were forced to leave their village but now return in protest. Aesthetic, abstract shots of mining and river flows punctuate scenes of sometimes highly emotional meetings and evictions.

Participant:

Director, Pedro de Filippis.

Notes:

Description based on XML content.

ISBN:

9781036249892

OCLC:

1470989521

Publisher Number:

302349