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Standing on Sacred Ground, Bullfrog Films presents a Sacred Land Film Project ; produced and directed by Christopher McLeod ; written and co-produced by Jennifer Huang ; a co-production of Pacific Islanders in Communications, Vision Maker Media and Sacred Land Film Project

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Standing on Sacred Ground

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Bullfrog Films presents a Sacred Land Film Project ; produced and directed by Christopher McLeod ; written and co-produced by Jennifer Huang ; a co-production of Pacific Islanders in Communications, Vision Maker Media and Sacred Land Film Project

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"From Papua New Guinea rainforests to Canada's tar sands, Profit and Loss exposes industrial threats to native peoples' health, livelihood and cultural survival. In Papua New Guinea, a Chinese government owned nickel mine has violently relocated villagers to a taboo sacred mountain, built a new pipeline and refinery on contested clan land, and is dumping mining waste into the sea. In Alberta, First Nations people suffer from rare cancers as their traditional hunting grounds are stripmined to unearth the world's third-largest oil reserve. Indigenous people tell their own stories and confront us with the ethical consequences of our culture of consumption"-- http://standingonsacredground.org/learn-more/synopses (as viewed on April 11, 2014)

A sacred relationship with the Earth -- Bosmun village canoe ceremony -- Spirit of the land -- Ramu Nico mine -- Bulldozing a cemetery -- Waste into the sea -- Corruption -- We will fight -- From PNG to Canada -- A dirty job -- Treaty eight -- Warning signs -- Government PR -- Deformed fish -- We see and we feel -- Cancer -- Oil for US -- Two worlds -- Cleaning up the mess they made -- CreditsIndividual stories. Papua New Guinea (27 min.) -- Alberta, Canada (31 min.)

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Profit and LossStanding on Sacred Ground : Eight Cultures, One FightEight Cultures, One Fight