I Am This Water is a short documentary made by UCT students, Mia Pentz and Kirsten Gobey, about the River Club development. It features in the section on Our Climate, Our Future at the Encounters Film Festival, currently running in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The film chronicles the conflict between the Liesbeek Leisure Property Trust (LLPT) and the Khoi and San groups who continue to dispute the construction of Amazon’s headquarters on this floodplain, a site known as Igamorodi !Khaes. The film highlights the forgotten and neglected history and identity of indigenous people as a part of their history is being buried in concrete at this place. The movie argues that their cultural heritage is being traded off for commercial and economic gain.  We agree.

It is being shown as part of the Encounters Documentary Film Festival – if you are able to access it, it is being shown in Johannesburg and Cape Town on 2nd July (tomorrow). Although tickets may be sold out, you may be able to view it at other opportunities in the future.

The false narrative that the development is a win for indigenous people is clearly exposed in this documentary.

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