Transamazonica: The Frail Frontier
Runtime: 90 min
Country: United Kingdom, Peru, Brazil
Director: Peiman Zekavat
Year: 2017
Synopsis
Adventurer and film-maker Reza Pakravan joins journalist Phillippa Stewart to investigate the perils faced by the Amazon, and to experience the greatest rainforest on earth in a unique and breath-taking voyage along the Transamazonian Highway. Travelling the road by bicycle and the river by boat, they discover the fragility of ‘the lungs of the planet’ and the toilsome lives of those who call it home.
Festival screening
Season: 2018
Section: Documentary