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A young indigenous leader and his environmental team fight against farmers involved in the wholescale destruction of vast swathes of the Amazonian rainforest.
Alex Pritz’s film focuses on the Uru-eu-wau-wau Indigenous Surveillance Team as they set about challenging the way landowners are destroying environmentally rich areas for profit. It draws on intimate access to both the Indigenous community and the opposing farmers network, to track the enormous changes that have taken place in Amazon region over the last three years. The escalation of activity by the farmers forces Bitate and Neidinha, a young Indigenous leader and his mentor, to find new ways to protect the rainforest from a rapacious industry whose support reaches all the way to Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Premiere statusUK premiere
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Director(s)Alex Pritz
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Country(s)Brazil, Denmark, USA
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Year2022
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Duration85 mins
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Executive producer(s)Danfung Dennis, Felipe Estefan, Rafael Georges da Cruz, Txai Surui
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Producer(s)Will Miller, Sigrid Dyekjaer, Lizzie Gillett, Darren Aronofsky, Gabriel Uchida
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CinematographyAlex Pritz, Tangae Uru-eu-wau-wau
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EditingCarlos Rojas Felice
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SoundPeter Albrechtsen, Rune Klausen
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Language(s)Portuguese, Tupi-Kawahiva
