Water For Life
WATER FOR LIFE tells the dramatic story of three community leaders in Latin America who risked their lives and resisted government and corporate plans to divert critical local water resources to mining and hydroelectric projects. Narrated by Diego Luna.
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ABOUT THE FILM
WATER FOR LIFE tells the dramatic story of three community leaders in Latin America who risked their lives and resisted government and corporate plans to divert critical local water resources to mining and hydroelectric projects. Narrated by Diego Luna.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
Will Parrinello (Producer/Director)
Will Parrinello (Producer/Director) has been making award-winning documentaries for 35 years. His extensive filmography includes Movies Around The World, a short for the 89th Academy Awards (seen my 85 million people in 250 countries); Mustang – Journey of Transformation; Emile Norman – By His Own Design; Dreaming of Tibet; Little Italy; and Kerouac. With his filmmaking partner John Antonelli, Will co-produced and co-directed the multiple Emmy Award-winning series The New Environmentalists, narrated by Robert Redford. Parrinello co-produced Summer ’82 – When Zappa Came to Sicily; Sea Change; Roots of Ulu; Yen For Baseball; and Sumo Basho. Will was director of photography on the Academy Award-nominated feature documentary Tell The Truth & Run – George Seldes & the American Press and editor of PBS/POV’s In The Light of Reverence.
Rick Tejada-Flores (Producer)
Rick Tejada-Flores (Producer) is a documentary filmmaker with more than 40 years of work to his credit. Among his credits are The Fight in the Fields, Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Struggle (PBS & Sundance Channel) and three films for PBS/American Masters: Rivera in America; Jasper Johns, Ideas in Paint; and Orozco, Man of Fire. Other films include Race is the Place (PBS/Independent Lens); The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It; and Low ‘N Slow – The Art of Lowriding. Rick served as producer on the Emmy and DuPont-Colombia award winning PBS series The Great Depression. His most recent film, My Bolivia – Remembering What I Never Knew (PBS World), is an intimate investigation into his family’s distinctive Bolivian roots.
Maria Jose Calderon (Producer/Editor)
Maria Jose Calderon was producer of Covid’s Hidden Toll, the Frontline/PBS Scripps Howard award-winning film that explores how the absence of mandatory workplace protections puts essential agricultural workers at risk. She was producer/director of The Edge of the Sea, an award-winning environmental documentary for PBS; associate producer of Elizabeth Farnsworth’s Emmy Award nominated POV documentary The Judge and the General – The Story of Juan Guzman; and producer of the 10-part HBO series Outpost, combining experiential journalism with adventure travel reporting. Majo has a master’s degree in journalism from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS
Artist
Will Parrinello
Producer/Director
Rick Tejada-Flores
Producer/Director
María José Calderón
Producer/Editor
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