SECRETS FROM PUTUMAYO

SEGREDOS DO PUTUMAYO

By Aurelio MICHILES

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Documentary - Completed 2020

1910. Roger Casement, British Consul in Brazil, investigates crimes against indigenous
communities of the Amazon, based on killings and slave labor.

Festivals
& Awards

It's All True 2020
Honorable Mention - Brazilian Competition
Festival de Cine de Lima (online) 2021
Competencia Documental
Hotdocs 2021
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • BRAZIL
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, SPANISH, BRAZILIAN-PORTUGUESE
    • Duration
    • 83 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Aurelio MICHILES
    • Producer(s)
    • Patrick LEBLANC
    • Synopsis
    • In 1910, the British Consul General in Rio de Janeiro, Roger Casement, undertook an
      investigation into allegations of crimes against indigenous communities committed by the
      British-registered Peruvian Amazon Company.
      Based on his disturbing Journal, SECRETS FROM PUTUMAYO traces the harrowing picture
      discovered by Casement of an industrial-extractive system based on killings and slave labor in
      the midst of the Amazon jungle - a real green hell.
      Today, more than a century later, the struggles of Amazon communities for rights to self determination
      and basic justice endure in the face of new waves of market-led development.