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CHANGING THE STORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Two indigenous women climate activists. Still from The Condor and The Eagle, by filmmakers Clèment Guerra and Sophie Guerra, featured at the Woodstock Film Festival.

Still from The Condor and The Eagle, by filmmakers Clèment Guerra and Sophie Guerra, featured at the Woodstock Film Festival.

The Woodstock Film Festival features many stories about change. Here, in a new documentary film full of inner fire and spirit, fighting the good fight against human induced climate change, indigenous activists aim to change the world’s trajectory.

Indigenous woman climate activists. Still from The Condor and The Eagle, by filmmakers Clèment Guerra and Sophie Guerra, featured at the Woodstock Film Festival.

Still from The Condor and The Eagle, by filmmakers Clèment Guerra and Sophie Guerra, featured at the Woodstock Film Festival.

The Condor and The Eagle, by filmmakers Clèment Guerra and Sophie Guerra, featured at the Woodstock Film Festival, follows four Indigenous leaders on an extraordinary trans-continental adventure from the Canadian plains to deep into the heart of the Amazonian jungle. Their mission is to unite the peoples of North and South America in pursuit of “Climate Justice.”

Indigenous climate activists in protest march. Still from The Condor and The Eagle, by filmmakers Clèment Guerra and Sophie Guerra, featured at the Woodstock Film Festival.

Still from The Condor and The Eagle, by filmmakers Clèment Guerra and Sophie Guerra, featured at the Woodstock Film Festival.

Two indigenous climate activists sit in field. Still from The Condor and The Eagle, by filmmakers Clèment Guerra and Sophie Guerra, featured at the Woodstock Film Festival.

Still from The Condor and The Eagle, by filmmakers Clèment Guerra and Sophie Guerra, featured at the Woodstock Film Festival.

American flag flies near town destroyed by Hurricane Harvey. Still from The Condor and The Eagle, by filmmakers Clèment Guerra and Sophie Guerra, featured at the Woodstock Film Festival.

Still from The Condor and The Eagle, by filmmakers Clèment Guerra and Sophie Guerra, featured at the Woodstock Film Festival.

The leaders learn from each other's long legacy of resistance to colonialism and its extractive economy.

Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Casey Camp-Horinek, Bryan Parras, Yudith Nieto, Bill McKibben, and Neil Young lend their voices.

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Woodstock Film Festival Poster. 2019.

Founded in 2000 as a grassroots arts organization driven by the sheer love of film and community, the Woodstock Film Festival has grown into one of the premiere independent film festivals in the US, bringing together thousands of filmmakers and film lovers over the years. This year, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Woodstock Film Festival, the 50th anniversary of the legendary Woodstock Festival, as well as the 100th anniversary of Woodstock as America’s oldest colony of the arts.

Actor Paul Rudd calls the Festival "a great festival... what a film festival should be, which is really independent films and showcasing the work of filmmakers you might not know about.”

Woodstock Film Festival logo.

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The Woodstock Playhouse during The Woodstock Film Festival.

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