{"id":18321,"date":"2024-06-21T16:55:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T16:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/?page_id=18321"},"modified":"2024-06-26T01:51:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T01:51:33","slug":"uw-center-for-global-studies-cosponsors-seattle-international-film-festival-2024-documentary-the-battle-for-laikipia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/uw-center-for-global-studies-cosponsors-seattle-international-film-festival-2024-documentary-the-battle-for-laikipia\/","title":{"rendered":"UW Center for Global Studies cosponsors Seattle International Film Festival 2024 Documentary: &#8220;The Battle for Laikipia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>UW Center for Global Studies cosponsors Seattle International Film Festival 2024 Documentary: &#8220;The Battle for Laikipia&#8221;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The UW Center for Global Studies cosponsored the screening of the 2024 documentary film, The Battle for Laikipia, at this year\u2019s Seattle International Film Festival. A review gives an overview of the film:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unresolved historical injustices and climate change raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven. Co-directors Daphne Matziaraki (4.1 Miles, The Me You Can\u2019t See) and Pete Murimi (I Am Samuel) craft The Battle for Laikipia with empathy, compassion, and brutal truth. <\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weaving together themes of environmentalism, colonialism, and conservationism, the film delicately showcases the impact of these crucial topics on the Indigenous farming community of Kenya\u2019s Laikipia region. Handled with care, Matziaraki and Murimi\u2019s The Battle for Laikipia takes us through a journey that elicits frustration, awe, curiosity, and wonder<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u201d\u2014BB, Sundance Film Festival.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SIFF was established in 1976 and continues to screen films from more than 80 countries and regions around the world today. Other SIFF 2024 titles were cosponsored by Jackson School centers, centering topics such as indigenous rights, government oppression, disability, journalism, and more, featuring filmmakers and stories from Ukraine, Congo, Afghanistan, Hawaii, Washington State, and others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18322\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 300px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18322 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/06\/BattleForLaikipia-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/06\/BattleForLaikipia-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/06\/BattleForLaikipia-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/06\/BattleForLaikipia-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/06\/BattleForLaikipia-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/06\/BattleForLaikipia-1-375x211.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/06\/BattleForLaikipia-1-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/06\/BattleForLaikipia-1-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/06\/BattleForLaikipia-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Battle for Laikipia<\/em> (2024)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18235\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/04\/FEST24-Email-Sig-Banner_728x90-300x37.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/04\/FEST24-Email-Sig-Banner_728x90-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/04\/FEST24-Email-Sig-Banner_728x90-375x46.png 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2024\/04\/FEST24-Email-Sig-Banner_728x90.png 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW Center for Global Studies cosponsors Seattle International Film Festival 2024 Documentary: &#8220;The Battle for Laikipia&#8221; The UW Center for Global Studies cosponsored the screening of the 2024 documentary film, The Battle for Laikipia, at this year\u2019s Seattle International Film Festival. A review gives an overview of the film: \u201cUnresolved historical injustices and climate change<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/global\/uw-center-for-global-studies-cosponsors-seattle-international-film-festival-2024-documentary-the-battle-for-laikipia\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":700,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18321","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UW Center for Global Studies cosponsors Seattle International Film Festival 2024 Documentary: &quot;The Battle for Laikipia&quot; -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This 49th annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) the Center for Global Studies is cosponsoring the riveting new documentary, The Grab (dir. 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