Synopsis:
Children of the Amazon follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Part road movie, part time travel, her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart.

Selection: Mill Valley Film Festival (October 2008)

Credits:
Producer, Director, Narrator: Denise Zmekhol
Editor: Jennifer Chinlund
Writers: Michael J. Moore, Ellen Bruno, Olivia Crawford, Denise Bostrom
Cinematographer: Antonio Luiz Mendes
Sound Recordist: Nicolas Hallet
Production Coordinator: Tania Carneiro
Original Music: Badi Assad, Naná Vasconcelos
Art Director: Terry Green
Graphic Designer: Monte Thompson
Illustrations: Lais Dias
Researchers: Stela Grisotti, Sula Vlachos
Associate Producers: Jane Greenberg, Eduardo Poiano
Sound Design: Berkeley Sound Artists:Patti Tauscher, Jim LeBrecht