Amazonia - La Loma Santa
Every year the inhabitants of San Ignacio de Moxos, a large Amazonian village in northern Bolivia, celebrate Ichapekene Piesta, a festival that reinterprets the Moxeño myth of the victory of the founding father of the ci
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Every year the inhabitants of San Ignacio de Moxos, a large Amazonian village in northern Bolivia, celebrate Ichapekene Piesta, a festival that reinterprets the Moxeño myth of the victory of the founding father of the ci
A brave and bold indigenous girl, protector of her jungle and its wild life and guided by her shaman grandfather, pairs with a boy from the big city, against animal traffickers in the Amazon forest.
American Explorers Bruce Barron and Marshall Pickard led a life-threatening expedition into the Amazon Jungle to trace the footsteps of renowned British Explorer Percy H. Fawcett.
The life of fishermen and the structuring of the fishing industry in the region of Salgado Paraense.
The future of the largest rainforest in the world will be decided in the region of the highway BR-163 where land grabbers are stealing immense areas of public forests. In response to the failure of the Brazilian governme
In the year in which sustainability is one of the priority themes in the electoral debate, Miriam Leitão went to the Amazon, one of the regions of the country that suffer most from deforestation.
In 2013, motivated by the idea of revisiting the places of origin of objects from these two cultures in the present to produce a documentary, and supported by the Dean of Culture and University Extension at USP, the te
The visits of Brazilian sanitarist Oswaldo Cruz to Amazon in early 20th century.
The challenges to keep the forest standing
Aiming to address how the environment has been mistreated since the beginning of the 20th century, the production brings back historical characters and compiles testimonies from representatives of diverse groups related
In August 2007, Germany’s most successful music export worldwide, the Scorpions, already ventured deep into the Brazilian jungle for a sold out show – in front of 40,000 enthusiastic fans the band played a concert in Man
Psychologist and anthropologist Alberto Villoldo talks with traditional healers of Madre de Dios, a department within in Peruvian Amazonia. They and Dr. Villoldo explain aspects of ayahuasca, a powerful, plant-based med
Short film.