FILMS ON WILDLIFE AND ENVIRONMENT

 

Amazon Expedition – III (Brazil)

Source of the Amazon I & II

(60 mins; 2009; dvd; English subtitles)

Produced for Brazilian TV 

 

Third in the series of films on the Amazon, presented by journalist, Paula Saldanha and biologist, Roberto Werneck who led the first television crew to reach the source of the Amazon river. In 2007 Paula Saldanha and a team of researchers and documentary filmmakers examined, recorded and marked out on top of the 5597 meters Nevado Mismi in southern Peru, the place considered the most remote point of the Amazon river. The film records the nearly seven thousand kilometers of the Amazon’s course, from the true source in the southern Peruvian Andes to its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean