
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play 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 & ancient South American civilization determined to caution us about environmental damage to the earth A true lost civilization who regard themselves as the guardians of the earth the Kogi once traded with the Mayans & 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 about how we their younger brother were destroying the ecosystem by plundering the earth s natural resources But despite this warning the Kogi have continued to see destructive changes to their homeland as highways & power plants continue to spring up with glacial melt ferocious storms landslides floods droughts & deforestation continuing to take their toll Now two decades later & convinced that their message has gone unheeded the next generation of Kogi are reaching out to the world once more with a much more specific warning about the future of the planet Filmed over three years this ambitious feature-length documentary project initiated by the Kogi with footage filmed by them is the authentic voice of an indigenous people