Opening Night Film

Los Angeles Premiere

YASUNI MAN
DIRECTOR: RYAN KILLACKEY   
DOCUMENTARY • 94 MINUTES • AMAZON

TRAILER

Yasuni Man is a film about a conflict raging deep within the Ecuadorian Amazon. It’s a real-life Avatar story. Once under siege by missionaries seeking to civilize them, the Waorani people battle industry operatives and their own government in a fight to survive. Join filmmaker Ryan Patrick Killackey and his native friend Otobo as they embark on an expedition into the most bio-diverse forest on Earth. Witness what may be lost as oil companies encroach, human rights violations run rampant, and a forest Eden is destroyed – all for the oil that lies beneath Yasuni.

IN PERSON Following screening: Q & A with director Ryan Killackey | Atossa Soltani, Amazon Watch/The Christensen Fund.  Special quests TBA.

Cast Ryan Killackey | Otobo Baihua
Director Ryan Killackey
Producer Ryan Killackey 
Composers Richard Lauw fest. Andreas Bamberger
Cinematographer Ryan Killackey
Editor  Malcolm Lam 

 
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