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We Women Warriors follows three indigenous community activists in Colombia who are organizing to save their ancestral lands and heritage from violent destruction by paramilitary groups, government militias and guerrilla insurgents. Using the metaphor of weaving, this film carries no authoritative narrative voice but rather leads the audience to witness what violence, warfare and death have done to these rural communities. These women lobby for something as simple as roads to bring tribal goods to market. However, traditional tribal economies don’t stand a chance against the more lucrative coca farming which funnels cocaine to the US through various illicit channels underwritten by misappropriated American aid. And rural indigenous communities seem to be caught in the crossfire; they pay the price in the torture and death of their husbands and children.

This film is a sincere effort to bring the voices of the disenfranchised to the fore. It was funded in part by a successful Kickstarter campaign, which raised more than $10,000 in 2013 to help with its production and distribution. Simply presented in Spanish with English subtitles, this is a film that at one and the same time shows the solidarity of women in the face of institutional obstacles as well as the power of a few to effect the lives of the many. Recommended.