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Children of the Amazon full movie is released on Oct 04, 2008. Watch Children of the Amazon online - the English Documentary movie from Brazil. Children of the Amazon is directed by Denise Zmekhol and created by Denise Bostrom with Chico Mendes and Elenira Mendes.
CHILDREN OF THE AMAZON follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart. Zmekhol's cinematic journey combines intimate interviews with her personal and poetic meditation on environmental devastation, resistance, and renewal.