The Whanganui River in Aotearoa/New Zealand was the first river in the world to be recognised as a legal person, as a living and indivisible being.
Māori river guardian Ned Tapa invites a First Nations Elder from Australia and his daughter, who are activists dedicated to saving their own dying river back home, on a five-day canoe trip down this sacred river. Joining them are Ned’s friends, his family, an international film crew and Ned's dog Jimmy. A canoe trip becomes a call to action to draw closer to nature and fight climate change through a fundamental value shift.
Made over a three-year period, in close collaboration with the Whanganui Māori, the film is a positive, urgent call to action for the rights of nature: now the fastest growing legal movement in the world.
The director Petr Lom, the producer Corinne van Egeraat, Sue Willman (supervisor of the Rights of Nature Toolkit at King's College London and Assistant Director in King’s Legal Clinic where she is developing the human rights and environmental law clinic) and Dee O'Connell (founding Trustee and Chairperson of London Waterkeeper) will join us after the film for a live Q&A.
The Q&A will be moderated by Paul Powlesland, barrister and founder of Lawyers for Nature, an organisation that seeks to represent the natural world.
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