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Our documentary Rainforest Partnership: Linking People to People for a Sustainable Future is going to be shown at the Green Unplugged online film festival, sponsored by Culture Unplugged. Here is the synopsis:

“This short documentary, produced by award-winning filmmaker Michel O. Scott, follows Rainforest Partnership as they set up projects in South America to give indigenous communities economic alternatives to deforestation.  It begins in Peru with the community of Chipaota where RP helped create a management plan to counter unsustainable harvesting practices that had resulted in the local disappearance of piassaba palm.  The community is also producing brooms, a value-added product, from the fiber.  This project allows the community to sustainably- both ecologically and economically- harvest this fiber while protecting their forest for the future.  The documentary then makes its way to the indigenous Kichwa community of Sani Isla in northeastern Ecuador.  Here RP works with women to create and market handicrafts using seeds and other forest products.  This alternative income stream promotes the recovery of native species in the forest.”

So if you happen to be surfing the web during the festival (date and time TBA) and want to see some beautiful footage of the Peruvian rainforest and the village of Chipaota, stop by CultureUnplugged.com. The site is dedicated to bringing together artists from different backgrounds to form a network of people that create socially and spiritually conscious content. Their “Green Unplugged” online film festival is an extension of this idea that focuses on the importance of nature and the need for humanity to develop stronger and more sustainable relationship with the natural world. We at Rainforest Partnership are excited to be a part of Culture Unplugged’s ongoing mission to make the world a more connected, environmentally conscious place!