About the Event

JustFilms presents a special screening of the award-winning documentary Water For Life, followed by the compelling panel discussion “Defending the Defenders” with guests including Kerry Kennedy, President of RFK Human Rights, Goldman Prize laureates Francisco Pineda and Marcel Gomes, filmmaker Will Parrinello, moderated by Ellen Dorsey, environmental leader, and other notable advocates.

This powerful documentary explores the critical collision of water rights, Indigenous beliefs, and resource extraction through the intimate stories of three Latin American community leaders, and demonstrates how the right to clean water—a fundamental global issue—has become a matter of life and death in Latin America.

Hosted by the Ford Foundation and co-hosted by the Goldman Environmental Prize, with additional support from RFK Human Rights and Amnesty International, this event offers an urgent conversation about one of our most pressing human rights challenges.