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28th May 2019

Chacra

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In the Peruvian Amazon, the "Chacra" is the agricultural area where the jungle communities grow their essential fruit and veg. This documentary was shot over three weeks in the Amazon in September 2017 during a slow journey by canoe that only covered 100 miles between two remote locations: Nueva Vida to Mazan. The aim...

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19th April 2019

The Passage

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In 1974, film-maker Nate Dappen’s 20-year-old parents and Uncle Andy built their own canoes, launched them into the Pacific, and became some the first people in modern history to canoe from Washington to Alaska up the Inside Passage. Nate and his brother grew up paddling those wooden canoes in the Virginia rivers and...

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