pre-title

Weather report as audio: 04 30

We are hovering around 50 degrees

Use extreme caution please

Place caption:

Mexicali,

Baja California

Shot of them hosing down man on ground

From 05 08

If we, as emergency services, had not arrived…

Then that person would probably have died.

Add:

If we hadn’t been here he would have died...

AND

JULIO:

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water is essential in everything

Pre-title

Drone reflooded River shots from 02 50

Shots from the funeral

Captions:

Baja California, Mexico

This once-fertile region is drying up, making the heat worse.

The Colorado River used to flow through here.

Now the Cucapah tribe, known as People of the River, are devastated.

Drone shot of empty river from 01 08 Mexico 7

Now the river bed is empty, partly due to climate change.

From 02 10 approx

Inocencia:

When the Colorado River dried up

almost everyone was crying.

Drone shot of desert

Drone shot of desert with thermal effect

There’s no relief from the deadly heat.

GFX

51C

Baja California, 2017.

Antonia sitting on the rock from 01 39 - can you also find a close-up of her face

One family’s fight to get the river back may be close to victory

One family is fighting to get the river back…

Edith and Antonia from 07 52 current cut:

Edith: The plan in the future is to see the river flowing again

08 02

Antonia: We need water a lot

Inocencia and ANTONIA IN CAR  driving with her mum

Antonia (voice-over when she’s driving) I have never given up hope of ever seeing water in the Colorado River

Julio in ambulance

Ambulance go-pro

NEW CAPTION

But as the summer heats up, it’s a race against time…

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GFX Map of Colorado river either side of the border

AMBULANCE GO-PRO WITH HOTEL IN SHOT TO MEXICALI MAP UP TO MEXICO TITLE SEQUENCE

TITLE

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Drone shots of dry rivColorado at the Vado Carranza

Place locator:

Vado Caranaz Carranza,

Baja California

Río Colorado Colorado River

This used to be the Colorado River.

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Sand buggy drives as Antonia looks on

Date caption: April 2021

Place caption:

Vado Carranza

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Antonia interview over GVs of dry river under bridge

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Antonia sync and vo:

My family,

We were the first to fish here...

...my mother and my brothers.

Name Caption: Antonia Torres González

There was a lot of water before, a lot of water

We would take clams to eat,

 and we caught sea bass with hooks.

Map gfx

MOVED:

Climate change has led to water shortages in the Colorado River.

The water is shared between the USA and Mexico;

today the river dries up before it can reach the sea.

Drone shots and interview cont

Could we put a street sign of Cucapah here

The Cucapah is my tribe

Fishing nets

the Cucapah are called the River People, people of the water...

...inhabitants of the Colorado River Delta.

It is the sacred river for us because

 the Cucapah have been fishing there

since ancient times.

Captions:

Today local fisherman now have to fish 60km away in the Gulf of Mexico.

The amount of water that flows from the USA to Mexico in the river was set up in a historic treaty. 

The Cucapah think the treaty gives the USA an unfair share.

The USA says it meets its water commitments to Mexico.

The United States took away our water,

and if there is no water from the Colorado,

then it affects us in every way

 More sync here...

GV - Cucapah street sign

Black place-saver - picture of Inconcia.

Caption:  Antonia’s mother Inocencia is a Cucapah tribal elder. 

My mother Inocencia has also spoken a lot about this: 

‘Give us the river back that was stolen’,

because she is the traditional authority.

Interview with Inocencia

When the Colorado River dried up...

...almost everyone was crying,

and the fish were gone.

Because they used to fish

In a lagoon known as Chaman Cabo

Name Caption:

Inocencia González

A: But you want the water to reach the river, Ma

I: Since then I’ve been talking non-stop.

And I’m so angry and don’t want to talk any more.

The water never comes

New captions - GFX

With climate change, the whole region is becoming drier and hotter.

Heat is a major challenge for the authorities of the nearest city, Mexicali.

New caption:

City ambulance teams are busy with heat-related cases.

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Julio:

The police are reporting a person lying on the public highway...

Probably due to heat exhaustion.

Name caption:

Julio Buenrostro

Paramedic, Red Cross

Julio new sync:

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but the heat is a little earlier this year

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it started earlier than normal

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but this time the celsius got very high

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GO-PRO AMBULANCE

Ambulance with siren 

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FIRST CALL-OUT

Switches to A-camera

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 09 50 arrives

12 00 literally begins to hose the man down

Julio:

Hey, how are you?

Hey

Pupils

Open your eyes my friend, open your eyes, what’s your name?

Were you hot?

Did you take drugs?

You took drugs? Crystal? Heroin?

Heroin. Ok.

Relax, you see how the water relieved him, it refreshed him.

If no-one goes to them, they’ll die.

Standing to side, others using hose on homeless man

Julio: Alcoholics and drug addicts are the most prone to this type of accident.

He’s ok now.

Cont. Julio explains with man on ground  the problem...we’ve discussed the sync...

If you look at where he was, he was on the pavement, which is hot. The surroundings are environment not as hot but we have a very strong sun which causes an increase of his body temperature, as this person who’s taken drugs is on the ground so he can’t be moved until he is awakened by the water.

Julio explains problem cont. (heroin)

End with shot of colleague leaning over the homeless man who is now standing as Julius explains what he did

Go to rest, go to the shade and drink water.

If we, as emergency services had not arrived, that person would probably have died.

This is our satisfaction, that they get up and go on

Julio: the heat like everyone affects us too, despite everything.

We are also affected by weather conditions

We also get sunstroke, we rehydrate

There  was a time when I got heatstroke attending a patient and it hits you hard

Our doctors medics put serum in my main vein and I carry on working

It’s part of the day.

Nothing stops us.

Mortician:

Shots of the ambulance pulling someone from the back

Caption:

City Morgue,

Mexicali

Mortician - this sync is in V.2 see transcript at bottom of this script

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Something unique to Baja California and in particular Mexicali is the deaths from heat strokedue to the high temperatures

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Caption:

Dr Cesar Gonzales Vaca, Director of Forensic Medical Services in Baja California

In the internal examination, we find cooked organs,

Like when something is submerged at high temperatures.

Plus a generatlised dehydration of cooked organs

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if a person has not been hydrated for hours and is sweating

This increases the risk of heatstroke

MOVED FROM LATER: OPTION 2 (enmore high octane, about how things deteriorate)

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this starts with a headache

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the person has Illusions

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dizziness, vomiting, a general malaise

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until they lose consciousness and  death occurs

MOVED

It can take minutes, not necessarily hours,

Julio sits down inside to rest

GVs and then leaving back into car

Julio: catching my breath, waiting for another one

MOVED

Shot of empty river bed as in the start of the film to locate us back in the Delta

Drone shot of dry river - try from the source of drone shot at 00 00 from Becky’s ‘Mexico both parts 3/9/21’

Caption:

A group of environmentalists is are also lobbying the USA and Mexico to provide more water for the Colorado River Delta. in Mexico.

New bit of Edith sync here - moved from later...

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Edith master interview:

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things can be achieved between both countries

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all that is needed is the motivation to achieve it.

EDITH SANTIAGO

Environmentalist, Sonoran Institute.

Beautiful Laguna Grande drone shots DJI_0024 OR DJI_0025

(path to find shots: Mexico_200421_Martin+GVs+Drone shots -> Canon_Drone -> Drone 2)

Good drone shots: 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 32.  Try to avoid the high shots that show green agricultural land, or too much woodland.  Closer to the river is better.

Placename caption: Laguna Grande,

Rio Colorado Delta

Caption:

The USA gave water to reflood some River Colorado wetlands 13km from Cucapah El Mayor.

Caption:

Wildlife thrived - and the summer heat reduced.

Caption:

The USA and Mexico have given water to reflood some Colorado River Colorado Delta wetlands, 13km from Cucapah El Mayor.

Wildlife has thrived - and the summer heat is reduced.

Edith: Master interview intercut with the wetlands drone above

Good drone shots: DJ

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In winter they are very low, but in summer

we reach temperatures of up to 52 degrees

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If we have water in the river and we have a restored

wooded site with water

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you notice after

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you enter

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to the site,

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restored forest and you notice the change in

temperature

Caption;

Edith is visiting her friend Antonia

Edith: Antonia we brought this map of the Delta

Name caption;

Edith Santiago

To show you different points where Sonoran Institute is working

So

There are different places where

We are carrying out restoration activities

And where is it marked?

Antonia:  The part you want to restore for the Cucapah

It is in this part

Edith: The plan in the future is

at some point to see the water flowing gain

A: I wish it were true

All that we are talking now

We need water a lot

Insert new junction

But for Antonia’s family, time is running out. 

Antonia walks to the river

Sometimes I can’t not cry.

Cry, because

My mother has cried so much

She is sick...

...Has longed for

the river to revive

And now

I know she may never get to see it

Because she is sick

I wish I could have the water soon

I think it would be my mothers’ greatest satisfaction

To see the water flowing again

Let’s hope one day it will come back

New caption:

Ambulance go-pro

Meanwhile the lethal summer heat is peaking.

ALL BELOW IS SAVED FOR LATER

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Shots of border wall and cooling centre.

New caption:

Around 07 17:

On hot days cooling centres are set up for those in need.

The authorities set up cooling centres for those in need.

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Intercut julius driving with go-pro and newsreader used in vision and in voice-over

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Female newsreader:

Indeed Edgar, we are going to have very extreme temperatures so stay hydrated and use sunscreen especially ultraviolet rays are very strong and affect our skin

Julio new sync:

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00:11:05,990 --> 00:11:10,449

but the heat is a little earlier this year

175

00:11:10,474 --> 00:11:12,420

it started earlier than norma

183

00:11:30,343 --> 00:11:33,444

but this time the celsius got too high

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00 01 50 from becky’s playout

Male news reader:

We are hovering around 50 degrees of temperature so use extreme caution please, the health ministry has issued an appeal to people to protect the most vulnerable

Mortician from Morgue 2

19 11 24

Mexicali is a border state where many people are in transit

we do not know who they are or where they come from then they die in the street.

Julio master interview:

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homeless people

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they are the most affected

Rather than those who have ho mes

Another call out -

Voice over ambulance radio

Donde esta?

Paramedic:

We’ve already located it

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●      

Caption:

The team are called to a building site

Some arrival shots as he finds the man in a derelict building. Attending to the man

Julio: Why are you here?

Don’t you have a place to live?

Jesus: No, I live here. I came here to wash.

Julio: Let’s check your heart first and then your blood pressure, your oxygen level. What’s your name?

Jesus: Jesus

Julio: How old are you, Jesus?

Jesus: 64 years old

Julio: 64. Short of breath?

Jesus: No

Julio: No? Any cuts on the body?

Jesus: Yes

Julio: Yes?

Keep it for support

Julio: He is a 64 year old patient who, as we were told earlier, due to dehydration. He’ll be transferred to the Red Cross. He has a temperature of 42 degrees, requires the cold and even more the environment. Dehydration and heat exhausation, is going to be checked,

New captions:

The patient was taken to hospital for rehydration.

(over stretcher shot)

He was later discharged.  Others aren’t so lucky.

(in clinic just before Julio’s sync about brain damage)

Jesus being wheeled in on gurney. Julio talks to doctor.

Julio: He had a blood pressure of 60,

Doctor: dehydration combiend with heat.

 Julio: He had a temperature of 42 degrees.

Julio: he’s 37 now

Doctor: how did you lower it

Julio: with cooling only

Julio master interview:

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remember that the brain contains water

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high temperatures of 40-42 degrees

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the brain is overheating

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and the most common collateral damage that can be caused,

is brain damage

ADD:

PROGNOSIS ISN’T GOOD

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the truth,

when it comes to the time to survive

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honestly they are very few

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and the one who

survives

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survives with collateral

damage, brain damage

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00:06:25,218 --> 00:06:27,617

very few remain stable

.

Drone shots

Meanwhile in the Colorado River Delta, a surprising and historic event...

GFX May 13th

ON SCREEN CREDIT: Sonoran Institute

The campaign for more river water paid off.   The USA released an extra 42 million tons   43 million cubic metres to fill the river for the summer.

The water flows again through the land of the Cucapah - for now.

Antonia:

The water has arrived

Because of the arrangement made between the United States and Mexico

Seems impossible, but it is...

That after the river,

after dying, comes to life again

Visit to river

Antonia and mum:

Let’s go Inocencia

Let’s go and see the river

Get her bag and it down in your place

We’re going to see the Vado Carranza

My mother’s going to see the water

I have never given up hope of ever seeing water in the Colorado River

And we have a bond with teh water

Deep int he herat, one can say, it is something we have lived here, we are the people of the river

Date caption:

 20th June 2021

22 May 2021

Caption:

Filmed by Jaziel Soto Torres, Antonia’s son.

People celebrate in teh river

I: This looks really beautiful

and brings lot of joy

Fisherman could come, I’d say

A: But who are you going to thank?

I: Everyone, even the Americans who I fought with.

M: We want more, though!

This is enough

With what God gave

Caption on black for the moment:

The River Colorado River now reached the sea, helping wildlife and protecting livelihoods.

New caption:

The river has brought welcome relief for now from the heat

(over shots of the river celebrations)

GFX TRANSITION

But the summer heat continues to threaten the most vulnerable.

Location caption:

Mexicali

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Shots of border wall and cooling centre.

New caption:

Around 07 17:

On hot days cooling centres are set up for those in need.

The authorities set up cooling centres for those in need.

2

Intercut julius driving with go-pro and newsreader used in vision and in voice-over

MOVED

3

Female newsreader:

Indeed Edgar, we are going to have very extreme temperatures so stay hydrated and use sunscreen especially ultraviolet rays are very strong and affect our skin

2.

00 01 50 from becky’s playout

Male news reader:

We are hovering around 50 degrees of temperature so use extreme caution please, the health ministry has issued an appeal to people to protect the most vulnerable

Mortician from Morgue 2

19 11 24

Mexicali is a border state where many people are in transit

we do not know who they are or where they come from then they die in the street.

Julio master interview:

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00:04:41,935 --> 00:04:43,490

homeless people

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00:04:43,622 --> 00:04:46,059

they are the most affected

Rather than those who have ho mes

Another call out -

Voice over ambulance radio

Donde esta?

Paramedic:

We’ve already located it

●      

●      

Caption:

The team are called to a building site

Some arrival shots as he finds the man in a derelict building. Attending to the man

Julio: Why are you here?

Don’t you have a place to live?

Jesus: No, I live here. I came here to clean.

Julio: Let’s check your heart first and then your blood pressure, your oxygen level. What’s your name?

Jesus: Jesus

Julio: How old are you, Jesus?

Jesus: 64 years old

Julio: 64. Short of breath?

Jesus: No

Julio: No? Any cuts on the body?

Jesus: Yes

Julio: Yes?

Keep it for support

Julio: He is a 64 year old patient who, as we were told earlier, due to dehydration. He’ll be transferred to the Red Cross. He has a temperature of 42 degrees, requires the cold and even more the environment. Dehydration and heat exhausation, is going to be checked,

New captions:

The patient was taken to hospital for rehydration.

(over stretcher shot)

He was later discharged.  Others aren’t so lucky.

(in clinic just before Julio’s sync about brain damage)

Jesus being wheeled in on gurney. Julio talks to doctor.

Julio: He had a blood pressure of 60,

Doctor: dehydration combiend with heat.

 Julio: He had a temperature of 42 degrees.

Julio: he’s 37 now

Doctor: how did you lower it

Julio: with cooling only

Julio master interview:

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remember that the brain contains water

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00:05:20,659 --> 00:05:23,065

high temperatures of 40-42 degrees

74

00:05:23,497 --> 00:05:26,099

the brain is overheating

75

00:05:26,124 --> 00:05:29,319

and the most common collateral damage that can be caused,

is brain damage

ADD:

PROGNOSIS ISN’T GOOD

00:06:16,037 --> 00:06:18,814

the truth,

when it comes to the time to survive

90

00:06:18,919 --> 00:06:21,012

honestly they are very few

91

00:06:21,037 --> 00:06:22,416

and the one who

survives

92

00:06:22,441 --> 00:06:25,082

survives with collateral

damage, brain damage

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00:06:25,218 --> 00:06:27,617

very few remain stable

Shots of another case

Caption to go over the patient crying on the stretcher

In 7 days the Red Cross helped 72 people with heat related illnesses in Mexicali …

Heat killed 23 people this summer in the city.

Julio sits down inside to rest

GVs and then leaving back into car

Julio: catching my breath, waiting for another one

Mortician: 19 18 12

NEW Caption: The heat may have hastened other deaths too.

Caption: on black

Inocencia

Gonzalez, tribal elder of the Cucapahs, died on June 23 after a long illness.

Antonia

At the beginning we were very happy

Laugh

My mother could still walk to see the river

But then she got sick

My mother’s gone

But she had the privilege of seeing the river again.

So it’s one of the things that I’m glad for

to know that she saw all this now

Well, She was happy, maybe it was what she was waiting for in the end

Funeral

Funeral

Funeral

Sunset.

Move the shots from this scene earlier under the news of Inocencia’s death

Final scene - Antonia by the river

More shots of the river and fishing

River:  Antonia by the water , throws dog in the river

Caption:

The river is back for now, but will dry again in a couple of months if the USA or Mexican governments dont allocate more water. 

My mother will no longer be here

But we will keep fighting for it to continue

Defending what belongs to us

And that for thougsnad osf years has been here

And let it be all tthe time as before

ENDS.

New captions on black - Steph is trying to get footage of the river now

Caption: September 19th September 2021

The Colorado River will soon dry up again here.

But the US and Mexican governments have committed to allocate more water in summers to come.