Haagua, an Indigenous Surf Film

Produced by Native Like Water, Directed by Octavio Coutiño Aceves and Marc Antony Chavez. Touring WINTER 2025 at major film festivals worldwide. An Indigenous surf film that celebrates the timeless bond between humanity and the ocean, “Haagua” follows a group of Native American surfers as they revive ancestral traditions, blending cultural resilience with the cultural art of surfing to honor the past and inspire the future. “Haagua” explores the profound bond personified by Great Great Grandmother Ocean. Through voices from the past and prayers for the future, the film traces the enduring memory of survival that connects generations. Surfing emerges not merely as a sport but as a rediscovery of cultural practices and a revival of an original way of life. This cultural regeneration comes to life through the journeys of featured Indigenous surfers, including Andy Nieblas(Acjachemen), David Flores Ramos (Nahua), Kaliko Kahoonei (Hawaiian), Shuuluk Leo-Retz (Kumeyaay), Amon B. Chavez (Nahua-Carib), Reg Macarro (Payomkawichum-Ojibwe), and Marc Chavez (Nahua-Xicano). Together, they embody a modern resurgence of ancestral wisdom, blending tradition with the rhythm of the waves in a story of resilience, identity, and connection.

Dr. Jane Goodall with ITY, Panama, Central America

Dr. Jane Goodall, EarthTrain.org, InterTribalYouth.org bless site of new campus with Four Worlds International and Panama tribal leadership.

From So Cal to Nor CAL. Top of the world mentors, family.

Above UC "Cal" Berkeley. Beyond the research stations, father sun and his children. A higher education.

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Water World, Isla Coiba National Park, Panama, Central America

Minutes from the ITY Local Farm Site and Food Forest, his Coiba Island National Marine Park. The largest range of marine and land diversity in the Eastern Pacific. Connected to the Galapagos my underwater range, this is it.

InterTribal Youth Inter-national, Guna Yala Reservation

Since 2005, YNS and ITY have exchanged with Indigenous Reservations and communities in Panama, Central America. ITY will open the Center for Bio-Cultural Leadership together with conscious international Non-Profits: Earth Train, Dr. Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots, and blessing of Four Worlds International and tribal leadership of Panama.