Amazon Sisters

This acclaimed film became a landmark in the early 1990’s changing the way that women and grass roots development was placed right at the heart of the fight to save the environment globally.

Amazon Sisters is centred in the Carajas area of the Brazilian Amazon where peasant women have had to respond to the mega-development projects and one of the world’s fastest industrial revolutions.

Refusing to be passive victims to often brutal change, the women resist with humour and resilience.

George Monbiot praised this film for showing the other side of the Amazon’s story and that it offered a great contribution to our understanding.

The actress Julie Christie wrote that the courage and intelligence of the women was staggering and this film deserved to be widely seen.