What could be better than unite environmental awareness and film? The Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol did it, in her film Children of Amazon. After fifteen years since she first photographed the children in the tribes Surui and Negarote in the heart of Amazon, she decided to return to check how life has been to those people: she was shocked to find a whole different world, with a 2000-mile highway, cattle farmers, loggers, and the modification men bring, not always for good.
The rainforest in the Amazon is known for its importance for the Earth. Being one (and the biggest) of the few remaining areas of intense photosynthesis in our planet, the Amazon if of key importance in regards to global warming. Most of what is known as Amazon is located within the Brazilian territory.
Zmekhol filmed her experience, and she shares it with her beautiful Children of Amazon, which will be broadcast on Earth Month, April, on PBS stations, its national television premiere in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day 2010. It will be reaching over 100 PBS stations nationwide and will also be carried by Link TV, on Earth Day, April 22. For more info on cities, dates and times, click here.
For more information about the film, click here.
Denise Zmekhol is a San Francisco Bay Area resident.
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