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| Between Midnight & The Rooster's Crow |
Two fascinating documentaries about the struggles for today's Amazon.
7.30pm
The Shaman's Apprentice Miranda Smith, 53mins, Surinam/USA, 2001, Spanish with English subtitles Set in Surinam,
The Shaman's Apprentice looks at one man's quest to preserve the ancient wisdom of the Amazon.
For more than twenty years ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin has studied the relationship between indigenous people and plants that heal. In the Amazon, the shaman (a tribe's doctor and spiritual leader) preserves the knowledge of the whole tribe. Without an apprentice, when a shaman dies their knowledge goes with them. Mark seeks to save their precious knowledge.
8.30pm
Between Midnight & The Rooster's Crow Nadja Drost, 66mins, Canada/Ecuador, 2005, Spanish with English subtitles
From Ecuador, Between Midnight & The Rooster's Crow examines the fight to preserve Amazonian land and its people in the face of powerful oil-companies who have laid waste to the fragile environment that is critical to all life on Earth.
