Water Protectors
(a documentary film)
Water is life. What’s in yours? 'Water Protectors' exposes the struggle across America for clean water. From Flint to the the Navajo Tribal Lands and Standing Rock, people are uniting and protesting against the powers of the state who are in collusion with corporations and are polluting our waters. It's greed and profit versus life. This is the issue of our time.
Documentary OverView
Clean Water the Issue of our time. Through this documentary we hope to expose the truth behind the clean water crisis in America. This film specifically focuses on the events at Standing Rock, Flint, and Navajo reservations, but the issues revealed are global.
About the director
Leana Hosea
Multimedia journalist with over ten years of experience working for the BBC in global news and current affairs. Leana has reported from the scenes of major breaking stories, from the Arab Spring to the Brussels terror attacks. On the first day of the Egyptian revolution, Leana filmed and did the interviews from Tahrir Square. Her piece led the BBC’s Ten O’Clock news and won the correspondent Jon Leyne a nomination for the Bayeux War Reporting Award.Over her BBC career she held posts as Middle East Affairs Analyst, Global News Reporter and Senior Middle East Producer. While based in Dubai, she shot and edited her own TV reports from across the region. Leana is one of the few journalists to film inside Qatari labour camps. Leana has reported and produced several documentaries for the BBC. For her film 'Rhino Wars' Leana persuaded poachers to talk about their trade openly on camera for the first time.Leana produced a BBC film following the Muslim televangelist Amr Khaled, who has more followers than Oprah, as he travelled around Yemen combatting extremism. She secured interviews with President Ali Abdullah Saleh and Osama Bin Laden's former bodyguard. In September 2016 Leana was awarded the prestigious Knight Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan to investigate the Flint and Navajo Nation water crises. On the fellowship she studied Environmental Justice, Native American Literature and big data journalism.
Bayeux War Reporting Award
Inside Qatari labour camps
Rhino Wars
Interviews with President Ali Abdullah Saleh
Women taking the lead.
This Documentary will uniquely focus on women in both the production and through the protagonists shown in the film. This highlights the huge influence women have had in the water protector movement.
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