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DEAN JEFFRIES AND PETER SIMON, OF WOLLUMBIN STUDIOS

THE PRODUCERS OF THE HOUR-LONG VIDEO

AMAZON - THE INVISIBLE PEOPLE

HAVE GENEROUSLY DONATED COPIES TO THE RAINFOREST JUKEBOX BENEFIT
           

AMAZON - THE INVISIBLE PEOPLE
Video 52mins 1997
Produced by Peter Simon & Dean Jefferys
Directed by Dean Jefferys & Michael Balson
Amazon Dreaming

Worlds collide when they strike oil in the heart of the Amazon... The Amazon is the last place on earth where wild people live - ancient tribes who have never been contacted by the modern world.

Ironically, South America's richest oilfields have been discovered in the depths of the Amazon jungle, in the midst of these special people. In Ecuador, an uncontacted tribe called the Tagaeri are in the firing line and when contact occurs, their health, their faith, their environment are changed forever.

An Australian, Doug Ferguson, went to Ecuador to work with the indigenous people. He married a shaman's daughter, fathered two children and built a rainforest home. Doug has helped three tribes secure and demark their ancestral lands, saved more than a million hectares of pristine rainforest in reserves and National Parks, and helped establish sustainable agriculture projects in a nation being devastated by slash and burn agriculture.

Doug Ferguson is a 'barefoot diplomat', working between government, oil companies, the military and the Indians, helping to soften the impact on the indigenous people and the environment. He walks a fine line. He has been imprisoned, had death threats, and is constantly under the threat of deportation. This is the story of Doug Ferguson's work. Intimately filmed by Dean Jefferys, living for 2 years in the rainforest with Amazon Indians.

52 minute Documentary version:
(PAL & NTSC)

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