Other Films

The Day the Indians Won
Rainforest Foundation US
www.rainforestfoundation.org

In 1972, the government of Brazil built a highway through an unexplored section of the Amazon that was home to the Panara Indians. The Panara-- who had never before encountered outsiders-- were quickly won over by gifts of machetes, guns, and new foods. But they were unprepared for the foreign germs that the outsiders also brought in, and by 1975 half of the tribe had died from disease.

The government moved the Panara to a reservation where they lived for sixteen years, while ranchers and miners destroyed thousands of acres of their land. In the early ‘90s their leader decided that enough was enough, and they filed a lawsuit against the government with the help of the Rainforest Foundation US. In 2001, after a decade of legal wrangling, they won a million acres of unspoiled land where they live today, maintaining their culture and protecting the rainforest.

The Day the Indians Won chronicles the struggles—and inspiring victory—of the Panara.

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Negril Elementary
Rockhouse Foundation
www.rockhousefoundation.org

The Rockhouse Foundation is a non-profit organization that works to improve schools in Jamaica. Assembling resources from local communities, government, and foreign donors, they rebuild infrastructure, install computers and build libraries and classrooms.

Negril Elementary tells the story of one of their successful and important projects.

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RFID
Icon Nicholson
www.iconnicholson.com

Icon Nicholson is an interactive design firm located in Soho’s Puck Building in New York City. Long-time leaders in developing web sites and interactive museum exhibits, they are now doing pioneering work with Radio Frequency ID tags to enhance museum experiences and automate shopping and inventory control.

RFID looks at some of the creative ways this new technology is being used.