Start Date : 13 Jul 2016

End Date : 13 Jul 2016

Time : 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Venue : Seminar Room, Level 1, Pustaka Negeri Sarawak

A 2016 United Nations report states that damage from air
and water pollution, water scarcity and climate change are rapidly increasing.
This means that drought, starvation, rising sea levels and extreme weather
events will become the norm in coming decades.

Indigenous peoples are among the first to feel the
effects of climate change and pollution because of their dependence upon and
close relationship with the environment and its resources.”

The mainstream media will no doubt focus their
climate-change attention on large population centers and industrialized
nations. Therefore, it is vital that independent filmmakers, photographers and
journalists document the environmental struggles facing Indigenous peoples.

Already threatened by development and disease, many
Indigenous groups face certain extinction if society does not do something to
mitigate the effects of climate change.

American filmmaker Lawrence Johnson has long been
documenting the cultural evolution of Native people in North America and
elsewhere as they respond to environmental threats and cultural pressures.

Mr. Johnson will discuss his method film making in a talk
illustrated with many clips from his and other’s work. He hopes to motivate and
inspire local Sarawak filmmakers to look at these problems in Borneo, one of
the world’s great treasure troves of wildlife and Indigenous culture.

Join us in this interesting talk by Lincoln Corner
Pustaka Negeri Sarawak in collaboration with US Embassy Kuala Lumpur. Entrance
is free!

For further information contact Razak Rambili or Henry
Leo at 082-442000 ext 348 / 330 or email razakr@sarawak.gov.my /
henryllk@sarawak.gov.my.