Green Film Network: Saving Mes Aynak, A Love Letter to Afghan People & THeir Culture
A recent photo of Mes Aynak, taken in June 2015. This massive site, equal in size to Pompeii and Machu Picchu, is already re-writing the history of Afghanistan and Buddhism. 90% of the site remains unexcavated, and if plans to mine at the site continue as currently constructed, all of this history will be lost forever.
Writer Valentina Tibaldi of Habitat wrote a powerful article about Saving Mes Aynak for the Green Film Network. Thank you to Valentina for her support, and for helping share the message of Mes Aynak:
A denunciation shouted to the world, a fight against time in order to save Mes Aynak, a 5,000-year-old archaeological site in Afghanistan. A symbol of cultural identity of priceless historical value, this place is threatened to be destructed to make place for a Chinese open pit copper mine.
Saving Mes Aynak, a documentary by the filmmaker, writer and journalist Brent E. Huffman, shows all this and much more. Awarded with the International One-Hour Film Prize at CinemAmbiente 2015, member of the Green Film Network, the movie tells the story of the Afghan archeologist Qadir Temori: with a group of fellow archeologists, he faces what seems an impossible battle against the Chinese, the Taliban and local politics to save their cultural heritage from forthcoming erasure.