The People Could Fly (ePub)

DENISE DRAGIEWICZ is the president of Eyes of the World Films, Inc., a nonprofit 501c3 organization, aiming to protect our global ecosystems through education, media training, and global outreach campaigns. In 2013-2014, she documented environmental turmoil and community conservation in East Africa with the goal of showcasing these films at environmental film festivals: NDZOU CAMP, telling the story of a Mozambican community determined to protect their elephant population was the runner-up Yale e360 Video Contest 2015 winner and won Best Ethnographic Film at the Vaasa Wildlife Film Festival in Finland. Her hour-length educational documentary about conservation efforts in Madagascar, ANDASIBE, played at several international film festivals. Denise is the 2016 runner-up winner of the Yale e360 Video Contest for the short film CHOCOLATE IN THE JUNGLE: THE BATTLE TO SAVE A DISAPPEARING RAINFOREST, depicting the plight of Ecuadorian cacao farmers in the midst of massive deforestation in the Choco Rainforest. She won first place in the Yale e360 Video Contest 2017 for THE BURNING OF BORNEO'S PEAT SWAMP FOREST, a short documentary about the degradation of Indonesian forestland, specifically focused on the area surrounding Sabangau National Forest, home to the largest breading population of orangutans. Denise was awarded two production grants to begin her current feature project IN THE LAND OF PALM OIL about the efforts of a young female Dayak activist to bring global attention to the environmental catastrophe occurring on Indonesian Borneo, spurred on by excessive logging, mining, and palm oil plantations. In pre-production is her first feature narrative, In the Dark, set in South Africa, about the global epidemic of sexual violence against women and children in which she is writer and director. Also released in 2016 was her debut novel, The People Could Fly, which focuses on teenage depression and the consideration of suicide in young American women. Her films are

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