NFB Collection
Equatorial River
198722 min 33 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Bruce MackayWilliam Hansen
Production: Dennis SawyerBruce Mackay
Script: William Hansen
This documentary film focuses on the Amazon River basin's tropical rain forest, the largest and most spectacular of its kind in the world. In it, millions of years of evolution have created a profusion of flora and fauna unrivalled elsewhere on Earth. The film shows the wealth of plant species and the extraordinary varieties of fauna that are bound in intricate webs of co-evolution with the river and the rain forest, and the aboriginal peoples who live attuned to their surroundings. A timely film, given the heightening controversy over the massive encroachments that are endangering this area.
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Subject categories
- Environment and Conservation > Developing CountriesFreshwaters and MarshlandsRain Forests
- Plants > EcosystemsTrees and Forests
- Developing Countries > Environment and ConservationSouth America
Credits
- director
- Bruce Mackay
- William Hansen
- producer
- Dennis Sawyer
- Bruce Mackay
- script
- William Hansen
- cinematography
- David De Volpi
- sound
- Richard Nichol
- editing
- Bruce Mackay
- sound editing
- Bill Graziadei
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- narrator
- Vlasta Vrana
- music
- Neil Smolar
Awards
- Silver Apple Award - Category: History and Geography / Grades 4-6National Educational Media Network Competition