Mongabay"Yanuni" follows Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia and her fight to protect the Amazon from illegal gold mining.
Director Richard Ladkani shares behind-the-scenes insights with #Mongabay on the dangerous reality of defending the world’s largest rainforest.
Learn more in this interview by Aimee Gabay.
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Behind the scenes of the Amazon’s gold rush: Director Richard Ladkani on the making of ‘Yanuni’
Austrian director and cinematographer Richard Ladkani knew little about the Amazon Rainforest before he decided to make a film about it. It was 2019. Fires raged across the Amazon. Ladkani had just finished his film Sea of Shadows, about the desperate effort to rescue the critically endangered vaquita porpoise in the Sea of Cortés and […]