In the documentary Amazomania, which just screened at the DC/DOX festival in the nation’s capital, vintage footage shows a Swedish filmmaker and journalist in what appears to be a jungle setting, tying on his worn boots. A machete is suspended within easy reach, its long blade thwacked into a wooden post.
Erling Söderström, the filmmaker-journalist, looks into the camera and declares, “We are a large troop of 26 men. Make or break, this is the last attempt to make contact with the Korubo. This has never been done before, that humans enter the Indians’ territory, land that they know very
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