More than a decade after Avatar brought global attention to the destruction of Indigenous lands, Amazon Watch has released a new short film that brings that struggle into the real world.
Narrated by Oona Chaplin and featuring filmmaker James Cameron, Kayapó leader Raoni Metuktire, and Munduruku leader Alessandra Korap Munduruku, the film reveals the urgent reality facing Indigenous peoples defending the Amazon today.
Right now, more than 1,000 Indigenous leaders and community members from Brazil’s Tapajós River region are maintaining a weeks-long blockade of a grain terminal in Santarém. They demand the repeal of Decree 12,600, which privatizes Amazonian rivers and authorizes destructive dredging that turns living waterways into dead industrial corridors for soy and monoculture exports.
For the Kayapó and Munduruku peoples, the forest is not a resource. It is a living system sustained by generations of stewardship, culture, and responsibility. Yet their territories face mounting pressure from industrial agribusiness, mega infrastructure projects like the proposed Ferrogrão railway, and policies that prioritize profit over life.
In Avatar, the Na’vi fight to defend their home. In the Amazon, that fight is happening now.
🎥 Watch the film and stand with Indigenous leadership defending the Amazon‼️
