Quannah Chasinghorse, RZA & Fernando Meirelles Team Up For Eco Doc ‘Beautiful Resistance’ From UK Indies Make Waves & Pollen
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Indigenous model and actress Quannah Chasinghorse is set to lead documentary Beautiful Resistance (working title), about Indigenous justice and the climate crisis.
Chasinghorse, the 22-year-old Alaskan native land defender will be the film’s protagonist and executive producer alongside Oscar-nominated City Of God, The Constant Gardner and The Two Popes filmmaker Fernando Meirelles and Grammy-winning Wu-Tang Clan member RZAwho is also producing the film’s score.
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.
Beautiful Resistance will follow Quannah as she straddles two different worlds: the glamour of high fashion and the urgent fight to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of the world’s last true wildernesses, from oil drilling and climate destruction.
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