WHERE IT ALL BEGAN
What started as two separate stories became one.
While researching the expansion of lithium mining in Chile and Serbia, we realized the same questions, the same tensions, and even the same mining company were connecting communities thousands of kilometers apart. What seemed like isolated local struggles turned out to be part of a much larger global story.
Over five years, we followed people living through these changes.
Not experts or politicians, but journalists, artists, farmers, and community leaders trying to protect their homes while making sense of a rapidly changing world.
The more time we spent with them, the clearer it became: we realized this film was never only about mining. It was about the people behind the headlines.It was about people finding one another, sharing knowledge across borders, and discovering that their strongest resource was each other.
FOLLOW THE JOURNEY
The story doesn’t end when the credits roll.
Follow the film as it travels across festivals, universities, communities, mining regions, and decision-making spaces. Here we’ll share upcoming screenings, campaign events, new partnerships, and the conversations growing around All We Have Is Us.
Join us in this journey.
THE PROTAGONISTS
Vladan Jakovljević / Loznica, Serbia
Beekeeper from Jadar Valley and member of Ne Damo Jadar against Rio Tinto.
Bojana Novakovic / Gajevi, Serbia
Actress and environmental activist from the Mars Sa Drine resistance movement.
Ramón Balcázar / San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
Academic activist on the defense of wetlands from the The Alliance for Andean Wetlands.
Leyla Noriega / Belén, Chile
Aymara community journalist, defender of Andean territories from Belén says No to Mining.
Chad Blewitt / CEO of Rio Sava, subsidiary of Rio Tinto
Chad Blewitt, as a Director of local operations at Rio Tinto in Serbia, provides the essential corporate and institutional counterweight within the documentary.
This film is an invitation to imagine together a different future
Through #AllWeHaveIsUs, we do not seek the binary cliché of exposing the problems and illuminating the possibilities. By showing the struggle of these communities to preserve their territories and cultures, we want to demonstrate that there are more just and sustainable alternatives. This film is an invitation to imagine together a different future, in which development is not in conflict with life, but rather strengthens and celebrates it.
WHY THIS STORY
Two territories. One shared story.
At first glance, Chile and Serbia have little in common. Yet communities in both places find themselves confronting the same mining company and many of the same questions about land, democracy, and the future.
By bringing these stories together, All We Have Is Us reveals that what often appears to be a local issue is, in fact, part of a much larger global story, one that is connecting communities across borders in unexpected ways.
