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Directed by | Kieth Merrill |
Produced by | Kieth Merrill Isaac Palmer Jonathan Stern |
Written by | Kieth Merrill Loren McIntyre |
Narrated by | Linda Hunt |
Music by | Alan Williams |
Cinematography | Mike Hoover |
Edited by | Stephen L. Johnson |
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38 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Amazon is a 1997 American short documentary film directed by Kieth Merrill. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
The film features ethnobiologist Mark Plotkin, who discusses the role of rainforest conservation and the benefits of investigating it further in the interest of medical and scientific knowledge.