While the UN Climate Change Conference COP29 is taking place in Azerbaijan, City St George’s University of London celebrates ‘Global Week’ by screening the documentary Guardians of the Rainforests, on role of indigenous women and their spirituality in protecting the rain forest.
The event will involve a Q&A with the documentary art directors, Lia Beltrami and Marianna Beltrami, as well as a discussion on religion’s contribution to environmental protection led by a group of our MA students taking Dr Sara Silvestri’s module Religion in Global Politics.
Lia is an internationally renowned Italian filmmaker, artist and activist and was awarded the golden lion for peace in Venice in 2017. Marianna specializes in environmental governance and this is her third documentary.
Dr Sara Silvestri will be chairing the event. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics, School of Policy and International Affairs, City St George’s. She teaches Religion in Global Politics and contributes to a newly created Law module on Climate Change.
Prof Atul Shah, author of Inclusive and Sustainable Finance, will also be a facilitator in this event.
Guardians of the Rainforests was commissioned by the transnational NGOs Religions for Peace and the Interfaith Rainforest Initiative and was released and screened at the UN in NY in 2023 for the UN general assembly meeting on the environment. The screening at City St George’s is jointly organized by the School of Policy and Global Affairs, the university’s Global Week and Sustainability teams and benefits from the patronage of the Italian Cultural Institute in London.
See here the documentary trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcF1OQH78jY
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