Death By A Thousand Cuts
(2021, original release: 2016)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Participant Media, 2016
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
11910651
LANGUAGE
Spanish
NOTES

Title from title frames

In DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS, Eligio Eloy Vargas, alias Melaneo, a Dominican Park Ranger in the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park was found brutally murdered by machete. At the time, he was believed to have been on patrol investigating an illegal charcoal production site often run by Haitians coming across the border into protected Dominican forests. This murder becomes the metaphor for the larger story of increasing tension between Haiti and the Dominican Republic over illicit charcoal exploitation and mass deforestation. With stunning cinematography, DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS is a feature-length documentary film that is a double murder investigation, seeking to learn about the circumstances of Melaneo’s death and the systematic eradication of the Dominican forests

Film

In Process Record

Yolanda Leon

Originally produced by Participant Media in 2016

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

Additional Credits