The Dog’s Head – Indian Land
The Dog’s Head – Indian Land
Duration: 90 minutes, Format: 4K Sound: 5.1
The Dog’s Head is a film about a top urgent global issue: the Amazon.
In the extreme west of Amazonas’ state, in the Dog’s Head region, by the Upper Negro River, an universe unknown by Brazil and by the world.
One of the largest municipalities of the world: 109.184,996 km2, with 95% of the population made up by indigenous peoples.
Extreme Amazon. 2 national borders, 23 ethnicities, 18 languages. A rich and threatened territory. A place of meeting, of passage, of crossing rivers and cultures.
The Dog’s Head dives into the cosmovision of the native people of the region, conducted by small personal dramas that become real odysseys. A story of physical and subjective voyages in the daily life of the real Amazon protectors: those who have been fighting for centuries to keep their rights, their way of living and the forest alive.
DIRECTION AND SCREENPLAY:
Vicente Ferraz, carioca filmmaker, graduated in Communications at PUC-Rio (Brazil), and in Cinema at EICTV – International School of Cinema and TV of San Antonio de Los Baños (Cuba).
Selected filmography:
Road 47 (2013). Best Film Award at Gramado Festival 2014
Architects of Power (2010). Selected by Its All True Documentary Festival.
The Last Commander (2010). Selected by Beijing and Chicago Festivals. Awarded at the Trieste and the CineCeará Festivals.
Germano (2007). An episode of the collective feature film The state of the world, selected for the Director’s Fortnight of the Cannes Festival.
I am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth (2004). Best documentary award at the Gramado and the Guadalajara Festivals. Brazil’s representative at the 2005 Sundance Festival.
EXCLUSIVE SPONSORSHIP
Lojas Americanas & Americanas.com
LOGISTIC PARTNERSHIP
Brazilian Army
INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
FUNAI – ICMbio – FOIRN