Above and Below the Ground

As an Asian women-led team, we wanted to make a film – which centres women as environmental leaders – that we would have loved to see as young women. For us, combatting the climate crisis requires not only an understanding of its problems but the will to envision creative and empowering solutions. Our film encourages audiences to imagine different ways of living and relating to our planet. That requires unlearning colonial ways of dominating the environment and learning from the wisdom of our non-Western ancestors. Our film’s women leaders and BLAST rock band are doing just that, while reinventing ancestral wisdom for a new generation.