Blood of the Amazon

This documentary covers one woman’s story as she travelled down the Amazon researching the effects of the oil industry on the environment and indigenous people who live there. A doctor, an oil company representative and numerous indigenous people tell their story in relation to the Blood of the Amazon, todays black gold. From pollution to solutions, the largest environmental lawsuit in the history of this planet and the exciting Yasuni ITT Initiative this film gives the people a voice.


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Blood of the Amazon

(A feature length documentary)

When most people think of the Amazon they think of the vast forests being cut down, this is only one of the devastating impacts of modern civilization.

An oil boom is happening in the upper Amazon. Driven by increasing global demand and rising crude prices, the last remaining, untapped reserves laying underneath pristine rainforest are now on the auction block.  New pipelines are criss-crossing the jungle and new roads are being built to reach the drilling sites far into the once untouched wilderness.  

In 1999 Nicola Peel lived in the jungle of Ecuador for 6 months, capturing on video a host of spectacular wildlife species, including the rarely seen pink river dolphins in a black-water lagoon called Panacocha, where Occidental petroleum (Oxy) wanted to drill. Working with a coalition of environmental groups they were able to protect this pristine area, but Oxy is fast at work building new roads, pipelines and drilling new wells in the vicinity.