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<\/p>\nSundance Award-Winning Documentary About Amazonian Indigenous Environmental Activism<\/b><\/p>\n
From First-Time Feature Filmmaker Alex Pritz and<\/b><\/p>\n
Award-Winning\u00a0Producers Sigrid\u00a0Dyekj\u00e6r and\u00a0Darren Aronofsky<\/b><\/p>\n
**WINNER – Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft and<\/b><\/p>\n
World Cinema Documentary Audience Award – Sundance FF 2022**<\/b><\/p>\n
**WINNER – Best Documentary – Seattle Int’l FF 2022**<\/b><\/p>\n
**WINNER – John Schlesinger Documentary Award – Provincetown<\/b><\/p>\n
Int’l FF 2022**<\/b><\/p>\n
**WINNER – True Life Fund – True\/False FF 2022**<\/b><\/p>\n
**Jury Special Mention –\u00a0CPH:DOX 2022**<\/b><\/p>\n
In Theaters August 19th<\/b><\/p>\n
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THE TERRITORY provides an immersive look at the tireless fight of the Amazon\u2019s Indigenous Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by farmers and illegal settlers. With awe-inspiring cinematography showcasing the titular landscape and richly textured sound design, the film takes audiences deep into the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau community and provides unprecedented access to the farmers and settlers illegally burning and clearing the protected Indigenous land.<\/p>\n
Partially shot by the Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau people, the film relies on v\u00e9rit\u00e9 footage captured over three years as the community risks their lives to set up their own news media team in the hopes of exposing the truth.<\/p>\n
The film will be released in theaters in select cities on Friday, Aug. 19, including New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, Seattle and Austin, with a continued nationwide rollout to follow. THE TERRITORY premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival in the World Cinema Documentary Competition and won the Special Jury Award for Documentary Craft as well as the World Cinema Documentary Audience Award, followed by many other awards, including the True\/False True Life Fund Recipient 2022, CPH:DOX Special Jury Mention, the Movies That Matter Activist Documentary Award, the Seattle International Film Festival Golden Space Needle Award for Best Documentary, the Philadelphia Environmental Film Festival Audience Award, the Provincetown International Film Festival John Schlesinger Documentary Award, the International Wildlife Film Festival Best Sustainable Planet Category Award and Best of Festival Award, the DocsBarcelona Amnesty International of Catalonia Award, and the MountainFilm Minds Moving Mountains Award.<\/p>\n
Alongside the film\u2019s theatrical release, a multiyear impact campaign will launch in support of Indigenous land defenders across the Amazon. The campaign will focus on amplifying the voices of Indigenous media creators, strengthening legal protections for Indigenous territories, and advancing international legislation and resourcing to combat illegal deforestation. The impact campaign is led by Documist, alongside Think-Film Impact Production and a broad network of Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners.<\/p>\n