AMAZONIA: The New Ninamata?

Film Screening in Partnership with the North Carolina Latin American Film Festival

6:00 PM Self-guided visit of Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene

6:30 PM Welcome and introduction of the film by Professor Gustavo Furtado. Director of the Duke Amazon Lab and Miguel Rojas-Sotelo, Director NCLAFF.

6:35 – 7:45 PM Screening of Amazonia: The New Minamata?  (run time 75 minutes)

7:45 PM Guided conversation with Director Jorge Bodansky. On 50 years documenting the Amazon.

Join us for the screening of Amazonia: The New Minamata? By Jorge Bodansky / Brazil / 2022 / 75 minutes. Portuguese, Munduruku with English subtitles.

The documentary tracks the saga of the Munduruku people, who live on the banks of the Brazilian Amazon. There, illegally sourced mercury in gold mining is irreversibly threatening the health of their communities and ancestral territories. Fearing the reenactment of the tragic health consequences of mercury poisoning detected in people living in Minamata in Japan in the 1950s, Munduruku leader Alessandra Korap and her fellow community leaders invite doctors and researchers to investigate.

Watch the trailer

After the screening, participate in a brief guided conversation to address thoughts and feelings around the expansion of the economic frontier in the Amazon and the role of art and cinema in building feelings of hope for tomorrow.