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EXCLUSIVE: Fisher Stevens’ Amazon Rainforest Doc We Are Guardians will motorboat connected respective platforms connected April 22, which, appropriately, is Earth Day.
We Are Guardians counts Leonardo DiCaprio among its exec producers, alongside Jennifer Davisson and Phillip Watson from Appian Way. The characteristic doc follows Indigenous wood defenders protecting nan Brazilian Amazon.
Starting connected Earth Day, it will watercourse connected AVOD work Tubi successful English-speaking countries, including nan U.S. and Canada, nan UK and Ireland, and Australia and New Zealand. It will besides beryllium disposable to rent aliases bargain connected Amazon, Apple, Google Play and Vimeo connected Demand. It’s a superior boost to nan readiness of nan film, which is already streaming connected Netflix crossed Latin America and Prime Video successful nan UK and Germany.
The movie recounts nan struggle of section communities to protect a vulnerable and captious ecosystem that besides serves arsenic their ancestral home. It follows indigenous wood guardian Marçal Guajajara and Indigenous leader Puyr Tembé who are connected nan frontline of nan fight, risking their lives to conflict deforestation. It besides reveals different broadside to nan issue, showing nan struggle of Valdir, an forbidden logger, who is successful a poorness trap and sees nary different measurement to provender his family than continuing to trim down nan forest.
Directed by Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene and Rob Grobman, We Are Guardians premiered astatine nan Hot Docs Festival. It had a constricted theatrical tally successful North America. There person been typical screenings astir nan world, including astatine nan Brazilian Congress, United Nations Headquarters successful New York, and astatine COP30.
Co-Director Guajajara, who is besides a Guajajara tribal member, said: “People inquire why they should attraction astir a wood successful Brazil erstwhile they unrecorded successful Oregon aliases California aliases New York. Here is nan answer: nan Amazon generates 20 cardinal metric tons of h2o vapor each azygous day. That moisture becomes rainfall. That rainfall becomes crops. Those crops go nutrient connected your table.
“The companies that are destroying nan Amazon, specified arsenic JBS and Cargill, are besides nan companies that power nan value of nan nutrient you buy. This is not a distant biology problem. This is your market bill. This is your drought. This is your future.”
Fellow board Green and Grobman added: “We made this movie to show what it looks for illustration erstwhile communities garbage to backmost down against nan astir powerful corporations and governments connected Earth — and win.”
Fisher Stevens is known for his on-screen activity arsenic an character pinch credits including the Short Circuit films. He besides won an Oscar for dolphin-hunting movie The Cove, connected which he was a producer. We Are Guardians was produced by Stevens pinch Zak Kilberg and Maura Anderson from nan Highly Flammable explanation alongside filmmaker Chelsea Greene of One Forest.
