Yasuni: A Wild Idea
Title (Spanish): Yasuni: Una idea audaz
Title (English): Yasuni: A Wild Idea
Country of Origin: Ecuador
Year of Completion: 2011
Duration: 26 minutes
Format: DVD
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
| Wednesday 09/05/2012 -- 4:00 PM | Friday 09/07/2012 -- 9:30 AM |
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Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU) |
Biblioteca Nazario Rize-Badia Llabaly |
Film SynopsisA Wild Idea is an award-winning documentary about the Yasuni-ITT Initiative, Ecuador's unprecedented proposal for fighting global climate change. In exchange for payments from the world community, the country will leave its largest oil reserves untouched. If the proposal is accepted, it will conserve the Amazon’s biodiversity, protect the rights of indigenous people and avoid the emission of millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere.
A Wild Idea is a thought-provoking film that explores the complexity of oil development within a fragile ecosystem, its local and global implications, and its effects on the planet as a whole.Film Credits:
Director and Producer: Verónica Moscoso
Director's Biography:
Verónica Moscoso Cordero, also known as Vero, is an award winning producer, journalist and published author. Verónica, has vast experience in print journalism, video production, radio production, multimedia, photography, documentary, advertising and fiction writing. She thinks of herself as a storyteller who enjoys creating both fiction and non-fiction stories through different media outlets.
Verónica, was born and grew up in Ecuador. In her mid-twenties she traveled and lived in the Middle East and South East Asia. She is settled now in Richmond, California. A Wild Idea is her most recent production.
Community in Action!
Supporting grassroots organizations and communities
Among the goals of the DR Environmental Film Festival (DREFF), is to include and support grassroots organizations and communities, schools and young people in general.
Marcos Diaz
A real Universal Community leader and spokesman for the core values of the UN Millennium Development Goals as it is the Dominican swimmer Marcos Diaz. He will meet a group of youth, who will have a swimming competition, at La Caleta. The expected goals of this activity is to offer an opportunity to youth of disadvantaged areas to interact with Marcos, and to get a better understanding for the role model that Marcos represents for Dominicans and the rest of the world, as well as a better understanding of the sea and this protected area of La Caleta.For more details about Marcos Diaz visit Dominican Get-Together in the Big Apple
Trivias - Dominican Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Environment
to Promote DREFF Video
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