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The 10-minute-documentary "Mine: Story of a sacred mountain" aims to increase public awareness about a real Avatar issue in our planet earth.The Dongria Kondh, one of India’s most remote tribes, live in Orissa state’s Niyamgiri hills and worship a mountain as a God. The documentary shows their

ancestral tradition to call up against a mining company that prepares to destroy this sacred land in order to build a vast open-cast mine.

You have probably been touched by the recent and amazing movie of James Cameron: Avatar. This cinema masterpiece, showing an idealistic planet where creatures live in peace and harmony, can also be regarded as ametaphore of what happens here below.

It seems that, anywhere in the world, some people prefer to work for the evil, harming the rest of the humanity in the egotistic search of their own enrichment. The 10-minute-documentary "Mine: Story of a sacred mountain" aims to increase public awareness about a real Avatar issue in our planet earth.The Dongria Kondh, one of India’s most remote tribes, live in Orissa state’s Niyamgiri hills and worship a mountain as a God. The documentary shows their ancestral tradition to call up against a mining company that prepares to destroy this sacred land in order to build a vast open-cast mine.

This documentary is an initiative of Survival International, an organization working for tribal peoples' rights worldwide. Their main actions consists in communication campaigns to call up public opinion all over the world. Check their website for more information.