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Synopsis
When Rosa Choc, a Maya land defender, travels from Guatemala to New York city to sue a U.S. mining company for rape and murder, her case captures the attention of an American biologist. Lorena Hernandez is engineering a plant to absorb nickel from the earth – a breakthrough that could revolutionize the global mining. But Rosa’s shocking allegations force her to question her business partner/lover’s past in the mining industry. Dan’s former boss is CEO of the company accused by Rosa. Lorena’s political awakening about just how dirty the mining business can be, leads to an unlikely alliance between two women in the fight for human rights and eco-justice. Inspired by true events, RARE EARTH is headed by an ensemble cast set in the corrupt world of international mining as seen through the interrelated stories of a Maya land defender, an American bioengineer and a global mining executive.
Bio
Nadine Pequeneza is an award-winning producer-director-writer based in Toronto, Canada. Her documentary films have garnered nine Canadian Screen Awards and Gemini nominations, including a CSA for Best Writing in a Documentary for her debut feature 15 TO LIFE: KENNETH’S STORY (2014). Her latest feature film release LAST OF THE RIGHT WHALES (2021) won Best Canadian Feature at the Planet in Focus International Film Festival and was #1 at the Canadian box office on opening weekend.
Nadine recently completed her first dramatic short (proof of concept) and feature narrative script based on a true story, 1047 DAYS. The short was selected for the CFC/Netflix Calling Card Accelerator and the feature script was a finalist for the 2023 Humanitas New Voices Fellowship and the 2021 Whistler Screenwriters Lab. In 2023 she completed her second screenplay RARE EARTH working with writing coach Pilar Alessandra.
Nadine is an alumnus of The Redford Center grantee program for environmental storytelling and The Fledgling Fund’s Engagement Lab for audience outreach and film distribution. Her company HitPlay Productions has two documentary features in production: AN UNFINISHED JOURNEY and SEEING GREEN.
