Directed by Taliesin Black-Brown and instructed by Ramiro Vargas Chumpí Washakiat, “I’m nature” floats poetically human interconnection with nature by means of the eyes of Achuar natives. The brief documentary honors the philosophy of a tradition whose ancestral nations prolong over the fashionable borders of Ecuador and Peru, deep within the Amazon forest. Right now, Achuar nonetheless lives within the tropical forest continues to observe and keep ancestral methods of life.
Firstly of the 20th century, the federal government granted oil concessions that allowed the business to systematically strategy the Achuar homeland. The extension and additional improvement within the area elevated dramatically within the 1960s, initiating the contact between Achuar and the Western world.
Washikiat Persistent a imaginative and prescient he had as a boy, who predicted he would journey to the US to be taught English. In his journey, he noticed unbelievable cultural and social contrasts, reminiscent of individualism as an alternative of group, and but his experiences away from the jungle have instilled an rising understanding that we’re all the kids of the Earth.
“I’m nature” introduces us in a lifestyle inextricably interwoven by the atmosphere, it’s primarily based concurrently on and in concord with nature. “We dwell peacefully in a easy approach,” says Washakiat. “That's what we want to share with the world.”
The brief movie was an official choice in 2024 Doc Nyc Documentary Movie Competition and Mountain Banff Middle Movie Competition in 2024, amongst others. See Vimeo.
