Amazonas – a sustainable life in the rainforest
Amazonas – a sustainable life in the rainforest / N / Thomas Miklautsch / 36′ / 2013 / Austria
29. 12. 2013, Stergulc house, 22:00 AUTHOR CONFIRMED PRESENCE!The growing awareness of the locals in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazonas. In 2012 I travelled into the Colombian Rainforest to search for some indigenous tribes, that still used to live in a very traditional way some years ago. But especially the ruthless efforts of some BBC reporters in the area of the upper Rio Javari destroyed the pureness of these local tribes. So we as a production crew had to change plans and go a new way finding a different story plot for our documentary. As the most prolific documentaries always turn out to be much more influenced by chance than by rigorous planning we let us drift with the flow of the Amazon. In this journey we then met many more interesting characters along the line with profound living backgrounds and that made this film a much more inspiring piece of art as expected in the beginning. The story starts with a local fisherman and biologist nearby Leticia in the Colombian Amazon, a guy who crosses the entire Amazon in his selfmade bycicleboat and leads towards Peru meeting the famous artist Francisco Grippa. Finally we arrive at the Rio Ampiyacu near Iquitos, where we got introduced into the life of the Yagua and Huitoto/Bora people. A meeting of audiovisual filmart, great cinematogrophy, fantastic music with an up to date info about the endangered tribes of the Peruvian Amazon.
PRODUCTION: www.nwspirits.com
AUTHOR:
Thomas Miklautsch possesses twenty years experience in the creation of tv commercials, extreme sports productions, documentary films and promotional materials for both private and public organizations. He is an accomplished Director/Writer, Camera Operator and Editor. His company New World Spirits Film Creation has an almost 20 year business relationship with fellow Austrian company Red Bull, most recently filming and co-directing the Red Bull Cliff-Diving Tour 2009 and 2010.New World Spirits has also produced several projects for international sports channels as Eurosport, Fox Sports, ORF, Servus TV and many more… New World Spirits has garnered worldwide acclaim for it’s documentary film projects which focus on nature/the environment and adventure/sports with an eye to demonstrating cultures and ways of being unbeknownest to most people working and living in industrial, first world societies.New World Spirits has won a long list of awards for it’s independent film productions yet also works to produce commercially viable sports events and promotional/marketing materials to meet the needs of established companies such as Tourism Boards, Local Governments, Austrian Associations, Adidas Eye Protection, Camel Trophy and recently Red Bull Mediahouse.
