Akicita: The Battle of Standing Rock
Runtime 02:02:00Monday (26th October) 6PM (GMT), UTC +0)Standing Rock, 2016: the largest Native American occupation since Wounded Knee, thousands of activists, environmentalists, and militarized police descend on the Dakota Access Pipeline, in a standoff between Big Oil and a new generation of native warriors. Embedded in the movement, native filmmaker Cody Lucich chronicles the sweeping struggle in stunning clarity, as the forces battle through summer to bitter winter, capturing the spirit and havoc of an uprising.
Directed by Cody Lucich
Cody Lucich is an award-winning director, cinematographer, and editor who has worked with Nike, HBO, Vice, Disney and PETA. He also works extensively in community-based media, which anchors him in culture and a deeply-rooted relationship to the notion of ‘Native media.’ Lucich is from the Maidu Tribe in Northern California and is described as a “conscious filmmaker”. With a highly stylized aesthetic and a deep-thinking approach, he is a hybrid between fiction and non-fiction worlds.