LOS ANGELES PREMIERE
DOCUMENTARY | USA | 91 MINUTES | English
Water for Life
Director Will Parrinello
Narrated by Diego Luna with the original song Ko (Water) sung by Mexican American Mixtec Grammy Award-winner Lila Downs and Chilean Mapuche singer-songwriter Daniela Millaleo.
Water For Life is a story of courage and determination, betrayal and corruption, death threats and murder, and of unexpected victories in the countryside and in the courts. It is a story that asks how economic development can grow in harmony with environmental protections and why we tolerate unbridled greed and profiteering at the expense of human life and of our precious planet. Above all, Water For Life illuminates a growing recognition of Indigenous rights and a rising demand for corporate responsibility and environmental justice that’s being seen around the world. It is a story that begins and ends with water.
CAST & CREDITS
Director
Will Parrinello
Producer
Editor
Maria Jose ‘Majo’ Calderon
Writer / Co-Producer
Sarah Kass
Director of Photography
Vicente Franco
Composer / Sound Designer
Christopher Hedge
Senior Producer
Stephen Talbot
Consulting Editor
Quinn Costello
Assistant Editor
Kylee Acevedo
Key Cast
Berta Cáceres (Honduras), Francisco Pineda (El Salvador), Alberto Curamil (Chile)
Directors Bio
Time after time, independent filmmaker Will Parrinello has found big screen outlets for his creative expression, from Sundance to Tribeca, PBS to Netflix. For more than 30 years he has made award-winning films for streaming, broadcast, cable and theatrical distribution.
Parrinello’s credits include the Emmy Award-winning series The New Environmentalists (PBS/Sundance Channel); Mustang – Journey of Transformation (Tribeca Film Festival, PBS); Emile Norman – By His Own Design (HBO Audience Award Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, PBS); Dreaming of Tibet (Audience Award Amnesty International Film Festival, Netflix, PBS) and Little Italy (Golden Gate Award SFFilm, PBS).
Parrinello directed/produced Movies Around The World, a short film for the 89th Academy Awards. Broadcast on ABC-TV during the Oscars, the film was viewed by more than 85 million people in 253 countries.
Will co-produced/edited Kerouac (Sundance Film Festival, PBS, IFC); Summer ’82 – When Zappa Came to Sicily (Venice Film Festival, Full Frame, Disney +, Netflix); Sea Change (UN Film Festival Award, PBS) and Yen For Baseball (Emmy Award, PBS).
Parrinello’s work has been funded by JustFilms/Ford Foundation, Berkeley Film Foundation, California Council for the Arts, Latino Public Broadcasting, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Geographic, Silicon Valley Community Foundation and Wallace Global Fund.
He teaches documentary film at San Francisco State University.
Showtimes
Saturday, November 9
IN-PERSON
Screening: 3:15pm
Post Screening Guest (s) Will Parrinello (Director), Majo Calderon (Producer), Joseph Berra and Shannon Speed (Ph.D).
Once Purchased
your name will be at ‘Will Call’
AMC The Grove 14
189 The Grove Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Parking
At The Theatre
