Amazon
Follow the Amazon River from its source in the high Andes, through the rain forest, and into the majestic Amazon basin. Witness two "medicine men" in their quest for both the medicinal properties of the plants and the plant's curative applications by the indigenous people. Nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary/Short Subject (1997).
Film Info
- Type: Documentary
- Release date: September 12, 1997
- Run time: 38 minutes
- Format: 1570
- Genre: Adventure/Nature
- Director(s): Kieth Merrill
- Producer(s): Jonathan Stern, Kieth Merrill
- Distributor: MacGillivray Freeman Films, Sarai Inc.
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An Ogden Entertainment production of a Keith Merrill film. Producers: Jonathan Stern; Kieth Merrill. Director: Kieth Merrill. Distributed by MacGillivray Freeman Films. Japanese Distributor: Sarai Inc. Executive Producer: Isaac Palmer. Director of Photography: Michael Hoover. Writer: Loren McIntyre. Editor: Stephen L. Johnson A.C.E. Narrator: Linda Hunt. Music by: Alan Williams.
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Outside Reviews:
"Amazon" By Pat Kramer, Boxoffice Magazine
"'Amazon' mosies through charted waters" By John Urbancich, Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
"Amazon" By Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle
"Amazon" By Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
"Amazon" By Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
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