In the Name of this Land/Em nome desta Terra: Documenting Roger Casement’s presence in the Putumayo

Abstract

In the Name of this Land/Em Nome desta Terra is a feature documentary film that explores the atrocities committed by rubber barons against the enslaved Indians in Colombia and on the Putumayo River district. Such atrocities were reported in 1910 by the British diplomat Roger Casement, an obstinate human rights defender, in the Amazon and in Africa, who was sentenced to death in 1916 after fighting for the independence of Ireland. In April 2019, in La Chorrera, where the Peruvian Amazon Company was stationed, along 10 days the production crew filmed the lives of the Uitotos, Boras, Ocainas and Muinanes Indians, the four surviving peoples of what is now known as the “indigenous holocaust”.