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Brazilian Environmentalist Chico Mendes Getting Biopic, Documentary and Honorary Green Shooting Guide (EXCLUSIVE)
Sao Paolo's Estudio Escarlate will produce the two films and publish a green shooting manual informed by the experiences.
As the leader of the rubber tapper trade union, he organized the so-called “empates,” a pacifist resistance action in which workers blocked the advance of machines entering the forest with their bodies. “Chico Mendes is the Amazon Rainforest’s Mahatma Gandhi, a hero who spent the last years of his life trying to raise the people’s awareness about the importance of preserving the forest,” said Henning. Escarlate partnered on the project with Pachamama Investimentos, a local company specializing in investments in green assets aiming to preserve the environment and stimulate ESG practices.
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