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Related: About this forum22-Yr-Old UK Student Creates Astonishing. Beautiful Documentary About Peru's Tambopata Forest
An untamed wilderness: 22-Year old produces documentary on the Peruvian Amazon
By Jeremy Hance via the Waking Times, 16 October 2013
Spending a year on the Tambopata River in Perus deep Amazon, allowed 22-year-old Tristan Thompson, to record stunning video of the much the regions little seen, and little known, wildlife. Thompson, a student at the University of the West of England, has turned his footage into a new documentary An Untamed Wilderness that not only gives viewers an inside look at the worlds greatest forests, but also records the secretive behavior of many species, including howler monkeys, aracaris, leaf-cutter ants, hoatzin, and giant river otters.
The creation of the documentary was quite spontaneous, filming started out as a side project to other wildlife monitoring duties. But then the idea really clicked and I realized that this was the perfect medium with which to display the color, beauty and diversity of the rainforest to anyone that might not be lucky enough to visit, Thompson told mongabay.com.
Thompson wanted his documentary to reflect a different side of the rainforest, one not seen in many of todays wildlife documentaries.
Such a large proportion of new wildlife programming relies on sensationalized battles between natures deadliest and so forth, Thompson said. This was not the rainforest I came to know and so I consciously tried to take a step back from that approach.
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shraby
(21,946 posts)film makers are doing it now.
We all know that's the way of the animal world, but that doesn't mean we want to see it. As a rule I won't watch this kind of documentary anymore..it's upsetting to me.
Love this one showing the beauty and not the beast.
hatrack
(59,592 posts)I thought David Attenborough's work on Planet Earth was far better than Geographic or Shark Week or whatever passes for nature documentaries in the US these days.
His series includes predation, but doesn't flog it. The British approach actually gives the world time to breathe, and goes into greater depth on ecosystem structure and functioning than an emphasis on EXTREEM PREDUHTERZ.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Let my brain sink into right before hitting the sack.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Thanks hatrack.
tristanthompson
(1 post)rug
(82,333 posts)Keep up the good work!
gopiscrap
(23,763 posts)hatrack
(59,592 posts)Tambopata's definitely bucket list material for me.