Rogerio Soares
2018
The Belo Monte Dam, one of the world's biggest and most controversial infrastructure projects, is causing massive ecological and social devastation along Brazil's Xingu River, a major tributary of the Amazon that is the lifeblood to one of the world's most diverse ecosystems. Director Rogerio Soares travels into this mythic and brutalized world to follow several women whose lives and families have been profoundly changed.
CREDITS
Best Film BANNABÁ Human Rights Film Festival, Panamá
Best Film Human Stories Tulum Environmental Film Festival
Best Documentary Cine Las Americas
❛ River Silence is a poetic and visually-stunning film ❜
— John Ferri, TVO Vice President of Current Affairs and Documentaries