IMAX Film: "Amazon"
See "Amazon" in IMAX today!
Follow the Amazon River on a 4,000 mile journey from its source in the high Andes, through the rainforest, and into the majestic Amazon basin. Meet an exotic menagerie of animals, including the jaguar, tapir, pipa toad and sloth. Become part of a “you-are-there” experience with several water creatures, including pink dolphins, electric eels, piranhas and pirarucus—fish that can attain a length of 15 feet and a weight of 500 pounds.
In addition to being a journey of natural discovery, AMAZON is the captivating story of two “medicine men,” from vastly different worlds, who share a common quest. Join an American scientist and a native medicine man on their parallel pursuit to find healing plants. Dr. Mark Plotkin is an ethnobotanist, a scientist who studies cultures and plants. As Plotkin travels upriver, a fictional shaman named Julio Mamani descends from the Andes. Both the scientist and the traditional Indian shaman contribute to finding medicinal plants that may yield cures for disease. “There may be a remedy for every ailment known to man right here,” says Plotkin in the film. “Some argue that the treasure of the rain forest is the plants, but the key to that treasure is the knowledge of the people.”
Through the eyes of modern-day explorer Sydney Possuelo, filmgoers also meet the Zoë, an indigenous tribe who experience their first contact with Western civilization during the filming of AMAZON. The Zoë go utterly naked without regard to age and gender. They sleep in heavy handmade hammocks slung in thatched huts without walls. Skilled archers, the men hunt, while the women process manioc (a fleshy rootstock yielding a nutritious starch), and all gather Brazil nuts. Only one tribesman, Kuru, speaks some Portuguese. Others are adept at sign language.
Throughout this IMAX experience, images of the Amazon sprawl across the larger-than-life IMAX® Dome screen. Footage of enigmatic Machu Picchu, river rapids and waterfalls, stunning wildlife, and cultural customs helped AMAZON earn an Academy Award® nomination for Best Documentary/Short Subject Film (1994). Brought to you by Ogden Entertainment and MacGillivray Freeman Films, along with director Keith Merrill, AMAZON was filmed entirely in the Amazon Basin and features narration by Academy Award-winning actress Linda Hunt, with music by Alan Williams.
This film has been not been rated.
Run time: 40 minutes.
Please be advised: Film contains nudity.
