{"id":551,"date":"2019-04-22T11:52:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T11:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/promo-theme.com\/mato\/?page_id=551"},"modified":"2021-03-07T19:02:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T19:02:39","slug":"movie-studio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/?page_id=551","title":{"rendered":"Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221;][vc_column]    <section class=\"banner-area banner-area-5fee122b6e460 banner-default bsl-bottom-left with-circle-navigation swiper-container\">\n              <div class=\"circle-navigation\" data-deg=\"0\">\n          <div class=\"d\">\n            <svg class=\"c-inner\">\n              <use xlink:href=\"#dotted-circle\"><\/use>\n            <\/svg>\n            <svg class=\"c-outer\">\n              <use xlink:href=\"#dotted-circle\"><\/use>\n            <\/svg>\n          <\/div>\n          <div class=\"wrap\">\n 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The horn is trafficked to East Asia, where it can command a higher price than gold or even diamonds.<\/div>\n                      <a class=\"button-style1 link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BBC-Rhino-Wars-Leana-Hosea.mp4\" target=\"_self\"><span>watch video<\/span><\/a>\n                  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"item services-item-5cc0586ac6e59 offset-md-2 col-12 col-md-5\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n        <div class=\"img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Egypt-revolution-scaled.jpg);\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"content\">\n          <div class=\"num\">02<\/div>\n                      <h4 class=\"h\">Arab Spring<br \/>\nRevolution<\/h4>\n                      <div class=\"text\">Thousands joined the demonstrations after an internet campaign inspired by the uprising in Tunisia. In the capital, Cairo the protesters hurled rocks at the police who fired tear gas in response.<\/div>\n                      <a class=\"button-style1 link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/2-Cairo-Egypt-BBC-News-Three-reported-dead-after-Egypt_s-_day-of-revolt.mp4\" target=\"_self\"><span>Watch Video<\/span><\/a>\n                  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"item services-item-5cc0587e66c45 col-12 col-md-5\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n        <div class=\"img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/qutarworkers43.jpg);\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"content\">\n          <div class=\"num\">03<\/div>\n                      <h4 class=\"h\">Inside Qatar<br \/>\nLabour Camps<\/h4>\n                      <div class=\"text\">Migrant workers building infrastructure in Doha to support the 2022World Cup live in so called labour camps. The BBC's Leana Hosea has gone in to find out first hand what they are like.<\/div>\n                      <a class=\"button-style1 link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Egypt-strikes-BBC-World-Leana-Hosea.mp4\" target=\"_self\"><span>Watch Video<\/span><\/a>\n                  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    [\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1556110231921{padding-top: 70px !important;padding-bottom: 70px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column]    <div class=\"services-tile-block services-block-5f1c8c2d76206 with-heading isotope row\">\n      <div class=\"grid-sizer col-1\"><\/div>\n              <div class=\"heading-block with-dots col-12 col-md-7\">\n          <h2 class=\"h\">Local Stories<\/h2>\n        <\/div>\n          <div class=\"item services-item-5f1c7998ff16f first col-12 col-md-5\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n        <div class=\"img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/237233_4-scaled.jpg);\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"content\">\n          <div class=\"num\">01<\/div>\n                      <h4 class=\"h\">Covid-19<br \/>\nMigrants<\/h4>\n                      <div class=\"text\">Charities say they fear that thousands of undocumented workers here in London are at risk of coronavirus- because they're too afraid to seek help. That's despite reassurances from the government that hospitals will NOT carry out immigration checks.<\/div>\n                      <a class=\"button-style1 link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Coronavirus-Undocumented-workers-an-invisible-public-health-risk-BBC-News-Leana-Hosea.mp4\" target=\"_self\"><span>Watch Video<\/span><\/a>\n                  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"item services-item-5f1c71900beb0 offset-md-2 col-12 col-md-5\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n        <div class=\"img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/pollutionthamesriver.jpg);\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"content\">\n          <div class=\"num\">02<\/div>\n                      <h4 class=\"h\">River Thames<br \/>\nPollution Threat<\/h4>\n                      <div class=\"text\">Antibiotic restistance genes found in the River Thames. Leana Hosea, BBC London. London 2019<\/div>\n                      <a class=\"button-style1 link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Thames-River-pollution.mp4\" target=\"_self\"><span>Watch Video<\/span><\/a>\n                  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n        <div class=\"item services-item-5f1c89e2137a3 col-12 col-md-5\">\n      <div class=\"wrap\">\n        <div class=\"img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Southall-challenge-pic.jpg);\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"content\">\n          <div class=\"num\">03<\/div>\n                      <h4 class=\"h\">Southall<br \/>\nToxic Air<\/h4>\n                      <div class=\"text\">Toxic substances released while a 150-year-old gas works is being redeveloped have reached levels that ``present a threat to health``, an expert has said.<\/div>\n                      <a class=\"button-style1 link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Substances-released-at-Southall-site-of-an-old-gas-works-in-West-London-are-a-threat-to-health.mp4\" target=\"_self\"><span>Watch Video<\/span><\/a>\n                  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    [\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;fadeInLeft&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; uniqid=&#8221;5ce26ffed5102&#8243;]      <div class=\"heading-block heading-5cc14023875a0 tal h-h2 with-dots mode-overlay\">\n                  <h2 class=\"h\">Directors<br \/>\n<span>Statement<\/span><\/h2>\n              <\/div>\n    [\/vc_column][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;fadeInRight&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; uniqid=&#8221;5ce2700496166&#8243;]      <div class=\"heading-block heading-5cc140ca2fef5 tal h-h5 type-accent\">\n                  <h5 class=\"h\">I\u2019ve been a BBC journalist in International News for the past twelve years and I\u2019ve covered a lot of incredible and harrowing stories. I was breaking news in Cairo, Egypt reporting on The Arab Spring from day one in Tahrir Square, the war in Gaza and the crisis in Yemen.<\/h5>\n              <\/div>\n    [vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;text-t1&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-p1\" style=\"margin: 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-family: Poppins; font-size: 20px;\"><span class=\"gmail-s1\">In September 2016, I secured a prestigious Knight-Wallace Fellowship, followed by a fellowship at School of Environment at the University of Michigan, to research water contamination in Flint and on the Navajo Nation.\u00a0 During the making of my film<\/span><span class=\"gmail-s2\"> I visited numerous Navajo communities living amidst piles of uranium mine waste. Some were so radioactive the geiger counter maxed out.\u00a0 In Flint, I filmed with a mother whose baby had elevated levels of lead from her breast milk. <\/span><span class=\"gmail-s1\">I experienced the crackdown on freedom of speech, when I got arrested for filming a peaceful pipeline protest.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m now back at the BBC as an investigative TV journalist, where I continue to cover pollution, corporate malfeasance and other rights issues.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=&#8221;vc_col-lg-offset-2 vc_col-lg-8 vc_col-md-offset-1 vc_col-md-10&#8243;]    <div class=\"testimonials-block testimonials-items-5cc2a53c9a312 testimonials-block-style4 vc_custom_1595892557229\">\n              <div class=\"prev base-icon-back\" data-magic-cursor=\"link-small\"><\/div>\n        <div class=\"next base-icon-next-1\" data-magic-cursor=\"link-small\"><\/div>\n            <div class=\"swiper-container\" data-magic-cursor=\"link-w-text\" data-magic-cursor-text=\"Drag\">\n        <div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n              <div class=\"testimonials-item swiper-slide testimonials-item-5cc2a56d8fba7\">\n                        <blockquote>Through the stories of the Navajo, Flint and Standing Rock, this film links widespread water contamination to the erosion of democracy in the United States. It shows that several toxins are known to at least the offending corporations and government officials, but that all too often they do not share their findings. 'Thirst For Justice' viscerally demonstrates the increasing restrictions to freedom in America.<\/blockquote>\n                  <\/div>\n        <div class=\"testimonials-item swiper-slide testimonials-item-5ee85e4987b48\">\n                        <blockquote>In Standing Rock people are met with teargas, rubber bullets and water canon. The filmmaker was also arrested, detained and faced $85,000 in restitution by the biggest pipeline company in North America. There are many villains - the corporate giants, government officials and the forces of racism, greed and inequality.<\/blockquote>\n                  <\/div>\n        <div class=\"testimonials-item swiper-slide testimonials-item-5ee85e4d3e9f6\">\n                        <blockquote>But the hope is in ordinary citizens, who are the film\u2019s heroes and heroines, fighting to take back their power to protect our most precious resource \u2013 water.<\/blockquote>\n                  <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    [\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1556110231921{padding-top: 70px !important;padding-bottom: 70px !important;}&#8221; uniqid=&#8221;5cc05b921bb10&#8243;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1556110231921{padding-top: 70px !important;padding-bottom: 70px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;fadeInLeft&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; uniqid=&#8221;5ce26ffed5102&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column css_animation=&#8221;fadeInRight&#8221; width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; uniqid=&#8221;5ce2700496166&#8243;][vc_column_text el_class=&#8221;text-t1&#8243;] In September 2016, I secured a prestigious Knight-Wallace Fellowship, followed by a fellowship at School of Environment at the University of Michigan, to research water contamination in Flint and on the Navajo Nation.\u00a0 During the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-landing.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-551","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thirstforjustice.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}