The 2018 Princeton Environmental Film Festival presents AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock

Thursday, April 12, 4:45pm
Friend Center 101, Princeton University, New Jersey
FREE and open to the public
Post-screening Q&A discussion

The 2018 Princeton Environmental Film Festival is featuring the documentary, AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock, as an Official Selection. It will be shown on April 12 at 4:45pm. The film documents the story of Native-led defiance that has forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. It asks: “Are you ready to join the fight?”

The Dakota Access Pipeline is a controversial project that brings fracked crude oil from the Bakken Shale in North Dakota through South Dakota, Iowa and eventually to Illinois. The Standing Rock Tribe and people all over the world oppose the project because the pipeline runs under the Missouri river, a source of drinking water for over 18 million people, and pipeline leaks are commonplace. Since 2010 over 3,300 oil spills and leaks have been reported.

Moving from summer 2016, when demonstrations over the Dakota Access Pipeline’s demolishing of sacred Native burial grounds began, to the current and disheartening pipeline status, Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock is a powerful visual poem in three parts that uncovers complex hidden truths with simplicity. The film is a collaboration between indigenous filmmakers: Director Myron Dewey and Executive Producer Doug Good Feather; and environmental Oscar-nominated filmmakers Josh Fox and James Spione.

More Info: https://www.princetonlibrary.org/peff/schedule/#awake