Amazonia Eterna
How local indigenous commerce might save the Rainforest.




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For more than two decades, Brazilian director Belisario Francas work presented as series and documentaries have won many local and international prizes. Outstanding among them are Overseas, which was voted the best television series by the International Documentary Association (IDA); Xavante Strategy, which won the United Nations Prize as the best art and media creation related to peace and music of Brazil, ranked as the best cultural production for television in the Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix.
Amazonia Eterna tells the stories of people who live, love and work in Amazonia. We want to present the atmosphere of their daily lives, in sensorial terms: the camera that plunges and rises from the rivers, torrential rain pouring down the lenses, an airborne camera drifting through heavy clouds, the lens whipping through the canopy of tall trees and bright sunlight gentled by the forest gloom, all enveloped in tropical heat. This film tells their stories through the feelings experienced by the protagonists. We follow the narrative thread of the film like an explorer drifting along the lazy currents of Amazonia, where one stream flows into another, which in turn flows into yet another, seeking new watercourses that are in turn intrinsically connected. Connected to the timeline that links the past to the future, binding human beings to nature.