UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast), Film and Digital Media Department, and Mauna Kea Protectors (MKP) invite you to a special screening of Pig Feast (Pesta Babi): Colonialism in our Time (2026)

The documentary, made by filmmakers at WatchDoc in collaboration with partners Pusaka, Jubi, Greenpeace, and Ekspedisi Indonesia Baru, is about the staunch resistance of Indigenous Papuans against the rapid destruction of Papua’s forests by the Indonesian government in order to plant sugarcane for bioethanol and oil palms for biodiesel. The film lays bare the brutality and speed of the state-directed program, showing the thousands of soldiers who have been deployed to Papua to enforce forest destruction, land theft, and the eradication of Indigenous ways of life. After the screening, we will join a Zoom conversation with one of the filmmakers, Cypri Paju Dale.

Please register for the event above.

This is an in-person event held in UCSC’s Studio C, Communications Building. If you are unable to make it to the film screening, the documentary is free on YouTube.

Questions about this event? Contact seacoast@ucsc.edu