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Quannah Chasinghorse, RZA & Fernando Meirelles Team Up For Eco Doc ‘Beautiful Resistance’ From UK Indies Make Waves & Pollen


Grammy-winner RZA is producing the film’s score and serving as exec with Oscar nominee Meirelles.

The film, which is aiming for a late 2025 production start, is co-produced by UK duo Sarah Macdonald of Make Waves and Alexander Asen of Pollen, whose previous collaborations include environmental docs The Great Green Wall — which debuted at Venice — and Blue Carbon, which sold to CNN, Canal+ and others. Quannah, who previously co-narrated Bad River alongside Edward Norton and featured in hit series Reservation Dogs, is joined on the project her mother, Jody Potts-Joseph, a Han Gwich’in leader and advocate who serves as an executive producer on the film. Executive producers also include serial entrepreneur and Trace Magazine founder Claude Grunitzky, and Philippe de Bourbon.

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