When Colombian director Ciro Guerra said that he was intending to make a film set in the Amazon jungle, written in the Amazonian language and shot entirely in black and white, many people told him he was crazy. But the visionary filmmaker, a man who describes himself as being guided by intuition, remained undeterred. He spent the next two and a half years researching and writing his script, making frequent trips into the jungle and consulting with the indigenous tribes that…
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