"The Territory": New Film Documents Indigenous Fight Against Illegal Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon

As Brazil approaches presidential elections, The Territory" documents the struggle of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people in the Brazilian Amazon against the deforestation and destruction of their land by farmers and others illegally extracting resources, which has expanded under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. We speak with director Alex Pritz and two people featured in the film, ahead of its release on Friday: Bitate Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, an Uru-eu-wau-wau leader, and activist Neidinha Bandeira. The Indigenous populations [in Brazil] are being massacred," says Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, who helped film how his people are fighting to preserve nearly 7,000 square miles of their territory. We will never stop fighting for our territory and for our rights."