This documentary is a product of an exam. The primal idea
was conceived in a classroom, with every segment of its technical realization planned
and organized, but at the shooting spot it had to be completely changed and
adapted to the new circumstances, because the protagonists just were not there
that day.
We overcome that problem, but the biggest challenge and difficult
was to cope up with the antagonism of the residents towards us and to gain
their trust, and then to use the distrust for the story.
I’m a filmmaker and I’m very ambitious about this your
project. As a student of Comparative Literature, I’m interested in universal
concepts of cosmogony and in attitudes of traditional and modern societies
towards each other, influenced a bit with Shakespearian notion of continuous reinventing
of “new world”. Using this excellent scholarship I would try to make a
documentary about the transformation of sacral places into tourist attractions,
stressing the evolution from places with ritual function in pre-Christian period
over pilgrimages to global commercialization of them in present – with
Sustainable Tourism as a potential revolution in the industry.
And I’m also very anxious to let serendipity telling an intimate
story of Amazonia.
