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Amazon tribe go behind the camera in Nat Geo film ‘The Territory’

Fewer than 200 members remain of the Urue-eu-wau-wau tribe, traditionally hunter-gatherers who live in a protected area of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, surrounded and encroached upon by aggressive and illegal settlers, farmers and loggers

LOS ANGELES – When Covid-19 reached Brazil’s Amazon, and an indigenous tribe sealed off its borders, director Alex Pritz found an innovative way to finish his documentary — he handed the cameras over to the Uru-eu-wau-wau themselves.

“The Territory,” to be released by National Geographic on Friday, follows the plight of some 200 hunter-gatherers who live in a protected area of rainforest, surrounded and encroached upon by aggressive and illegal settlers, farmers and loggers.

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