LONDON : Filmmaker Alex Pritz delves into the shrinking heart of the Amazon basin in documentary 'The Territory', depicting the dangers that one indigenous tribe faces in protecting its heritage at a pivotal moment for the world's largest rainforest.The U.S. cinematographer-turned-director follows members
LONDON : Filmmaker Alex Pritz delves into the shrinking heart of the Amazon basin in documentary"The Territory", depicting the dangers that one indigenous tribe faces in protecting its heritage at a pivotal moment for the world's largest rainforest.
The tribes"are doing it to defend themselves and their home," Pritz told Reuters on Wednesday in an interview. Illegal logging and mining in the Brazilian Amazon has surged under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who has pushed to allow more mining and commercial farming there to reduce poverty while cutting back environmental enforcement and defunding indigenous agency Funai.
"They see themselves as these virtuous pioneers going out and turning wilderness into private property," he said.
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