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Twenty years ago Alan Ereira’s influential television film From The Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers’ Warning brought global attention to the Kogi people of Colombia a remote and ancient South American civilization determined to caution us about environmental damage to the earth. A true ‘lost civilisation’ who regard themselves as the guardians of the earth the Kogi once traded with the Mayans and Aztecs but survived the Spanish conquests by retreating into their isolated mountain massif the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Having remained hidden for centuries the Kogi surfaced in Ereira’s original 1990 film with an environmental message that was ahead of its time a warning that we their ‘younger brother’ were destroying the ecosystem by plundering the earth. Now two decades later glacial melt ferocious storms landslides floods droughts and deforestation show that their message has gone unheeded. The Kogi elders or 'Mamas' receive training to connect with “Aluna” the mind inside nature and set out to show us that we do not understand nature as a connected whole. Profoundly frightened the next generation of Kogi take Ereira on a journey to demonstrate to him and our scientists that the world is a single organism tracing the invisible connections with 400 kilometres of gold thread. Filmed over three years this ambitious feature length documentary initiated by the Kogi with footage filmed by them is the authentic voice of an indigenous people trying to help us. Bonus Feature: Interview With The Director
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