Our Mission
The primary objective of Living Laws is to empower the indigenous peoples through participatory video and digital storytelling to tell their history in their own way and words, fighting century-long narratives imposed by extractive industries looking to take away their resources, lands, and cultures.
Our Work
Living Laws' projects involve the production of films to help indigenous peoples tell their stories and to provide them with training in moviemaking and storytelling to create on their own.
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Who could survive a scorching sun?
In 1910, Irish humanitarian Roger Casement travelled deep into the Amazon to investigate the Peruvian Amazon Company’s operations. What he found he described as “extermination not trade.”
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Digital storytelling training
We seek to empower Indigenous communities with digital storytelling skills and equipment to tell their own stories to an international audience.
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WHY LIVING LAW MATTERS
“Indigenous Peoples Customary Law and Human Rights - Why Living Law Matters” demonstrates the role and importance of Indigenous peoples’ legal regimes for the effective recognition and protection of their human rights.
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“We need to know our own story”
Don Lorenzo | Muinaine Cacique
Our Impact
Since 2017, we have been going deep into the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon to meet and collaborate with the Bora, Muinaine and Huitoto peoples in filming “Who Could Survive a Scorching Sun?” and providing them with cameras, equipment, and training in digital storytelling for them to take the next step towards sharing their stories with the world.
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