Film screening: I am Chut Wutty
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS HAD TO BE POSTPONED AND A NEW DATE WILL BE ARRANGED FOR LATER IN THE YEAR
Film screening following by drinks – all welcome

Introduced by and followed by Q&A with Fran Lambrick, Director and Producer

In one of the last remaining wildernesses in South East Asia, Cambodian community activists are struggling to defend their forests. Rubber companies illegally cut down resin trees that the local population depends on, arguing the rubber industry is good for the area, providing jobs and development. Environmentalist Chut Wutty, defies threats and intimidation to fearlessly investigate the corrupt logging syndicates. In April 2012 he travelled to the Cardamom mountains to investigate an illegal, military-controlled logging site.

“At first, I didn’t expect they would target me“—Chut Wutty is a quiet, charismatic environmental activist. He is coordinating a network of protestors in Prey Lang forest, Cambodia, where deforestation destroys people’s livelihoods. But when the military arrive, Wutty is thrown to the ground at gun point. Immediately he is rescued by the network. Wutty is shaken but keeps going, determined to stop the destruction. At a logging site in the Cardamom Mountains Wutty is stopped and shot dead. In the aftermath, we ask, who is behind the killing, and can the network fight for the forest without him?

Featuring exclusive footage of Wutty in the months leading up to his death, interviews with activists and family members as well as those benefiting from deforestation, I am Chut Wutty exposes the fierce battle against illegal logging.

The film premiered on 16th January at Wild & Scenic Film Festival and will be screening at both the San Francisco Green Film Festival and the Environmental Film Festival at Yale in April this year. View a trailer for the film at vimeo.com/151373412 or visit the film’s Facebook page at www.facebook.com/IamChutWutty/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

Fran Lambrick first went to Cambodia in 2004, and has been back six times since. From 2009–2014 she was at Oxford researching community forestry in Cambodia. During the many months of fieldwork in Prey Lang, she got to know the stories of forest activists, villagers who lost their land, and rubber plantation workers. I Am Chut Wutty is, for her, the culmination of a long engagement with issues in Cambodia.
Date: 19 February 2016, 16:15 (Friday, 5th week, Hilary 2016)
Venue: Dyson Perrins Building, off South Parks Road OX1 3QY
Venue Details: Herbertson Room
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organising department: Oxford University Centre for the Environment
Organiser: Jane Applegarth (University of Oxford, Oxford University Centre for the Environment)
Organiser contact email address: jane.applegarth@eci.ox.ac.uk
Host: Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)
Part of: Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
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Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://v1.bookwhen.com/octf
Audience: Public
Editor: Jane Applegarth