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THE DIRECTOR
The Director
Amanda Burrell
Amanda is a multiple award-winning documentary producer and presenter. She believes that the environmental crisis is the most newsworthy and consequential issue of our times.
Inspired by stories of positive environmental action, Amanda creates films that focus on the fight to heal the Earth, and stories of the people engaged in it.
The Film
Film Title: MESSAGE FROM THE AMAZON
In this film, we meet the Ashaninka who are regenerating the rainforest and inspiring global action to protect Earth from their ancestral lands in the Brazilian Amazon.
From the village of Apiwtxa, their fight for their territorial and political rights has become a global model of Indigenous leadership,
Film Title: MESSAGE FROM THE AMAZON
In this film, we meet the Ashaninka who are regenerating the rainforest and inspiring global action to protect Earth from their ancestral lands in the Brazilian Amazon.
From the village of Apiwtxa, their fight for their territorial and political rights has become a global model of Indigenous leadership, sustainable living and environmental stewardship. We join them for their annual celebration of the demarcation of their territory and learn how traditional wisdom and sacred ceremonies guide their mission to protect and restore the rainforest.
Further up the river, in the nearby town of Marechal Thaumaturgo, we visit Institute Yorenka Tasorentsi. This was set up by Ashaninka leader, Benki Piyako, as a means of sharing Indigenous knowledge of living in harmony with nature with non-Indigenous communities. We see how he and his team are regenerating former pastureland, having already planted two million trees and with plans to plant 10 million by 2030.