Margaret Mee e a Flor da Lua (2013)

Margaret Mee e a Flor da Lua full movie is released on Apr 26, 2013. Watch Margaret Mee e a Flor da Lua online - the Portuguese Documentary movie from Brazil , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $21,736. Margaret Mee e a Flor da Lua is directed by Malu De Martino and created by Malu De Martino with Patricia Pillar and .

The film is a documentary that recounts the later life of British botanical artist Margaret Mee. It has a particular focus on a number of her 15 excursions into the Amazon rain forest. Through interviews with colleagues in Brazil and England, her diaries, and a recreation of her final excursion, director Malu de Martino shows the importance of Margaret Mee's work. She was an activist that promoted the importance of conserving the Amazon rain forest. Her activism was profoundly connected to her love of nature, and evident in the over 400 illustrations of the Amazon's flora. Margaret Mee also discovered and documented three new species of plants and painted the elusive moon flower - a flowering cacti that only blooms once a year and at night in the Amazon. The film retraces this final excursion by Margaret Mee, and through it, demonstrates her invaluable legacy.