Post by Okwes on Aug 15, 2006 17:42:49 GMT -5
BEYOND THE GATES OF SPLENDOR
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*OVERVIEW*
*Genre:* Documentary
*Language:* English / Subtitles
*Country of Origin:* USA
*Production Status:* Every Tribe Entertainment completed production on
Beyond the Gates of Splendor in June, 2002. Fox Home Entertainment
released the DVD in North America October, 2005.
*Film Website: *http://www.beyondthegatesthemovie.com
<http://www.beyondthegatesthemovie.com/>
*CAST & CREW*
*Director:* Jim Hanon
*Producer:* Kevin McAfee
*Executive Producers:* Mart Green, Bill Ewing
*SYNOPSIS*
This feature length documentary film tells the story of five North
American families becoming part of a Stone Age tribe in the Amazon
jungle, after the same tribe had speared their fathers. The film
combines interviews with character story telling to carry the audience
from the early 1950's to the present day across two continents and three
languages as well as from the Stone Age to the twenty first century. The
Story begins in the Eastern Amazon Basin with interviews of the actual
Waodani who had speared five missionaries in 1956, a story made famous
in Life Magazine. The Waodani were known at the time as Aucas and were
the most violent society ever documented. Six out of every ten adult
Waodani deaths were from homicide. The wife of one the men and sister of
another went to live with the tribe after their loved ones were speared.
Within two years the homicide rate in the tribe dropped over ninety
percent. Years later the son of one of the men killed moved his family
from Florida to live with the tribe. His children learned to call one of
the elders in the tribe "grandfather," even though he was the same man
who had killed their real grandfather. This is a story of how love can
transform any situation and how faith makes a family from the most
opposite of people.
www.everytribe.com/btgdetail/
Image:
www.everytribe.com/Storage/Files/BTGSmlThumbShadowMerg1.jpg
*
*OVERVIEW*
*Genre:* Documentary
*Language:* English / Subtitles
*Country of Origin:* USA
*Production Status:* Every Tribe Entertainment completed production on
Beyond the Gates of Splendor in June, 2002. Fox Home Entertainment
released the DVD in North America October, 2005.
*Film Website: *http://www.beyondthegatesthemovie.com
<http://www.beyondthegatesthemovie.com/>
*CAST & CREW*
*Director:* Jim Hanon
*Producer:* Kevin McAfee
*Executive Producers:* Mart Green, Bill Ewing
*SYNOPSIS*
This feature length documentary film tells the story of five North
American families becoming part of a Stone Age tribe in the Amazon
jungle, after the same tribe had speared their fathers. The film
combines interviews with character story telling to carry the audience
from the early 1950's to the present day across two continents and three
languages as well as from the Stone Age to the twenty first century. The
Story begins in the Eastern Amazon Basin with interviews of the actual
Waodani who had speared five missionaries in 1956, a story made famous
in Life Magazine. The Waodani were known at the time as Aucas and were
the most violent society ever documented. Six out of every ten adult
Waodani deaths were from homicide. The wife of one the men and sister of
another went to live with the tribe after their loved ones were speared.
Within two years the homicide rate in the tribe dropped over ninety
percent. Years later the son of one of the men killed moved his family
from Florida to live with the tribe. His children learned to call one of
the elders in the tribe "grandfather," even though he was the same man
who had killed their real grandfather. This is a story of how love can
transform any situation and how faith makes a family from the most
opposite of people.