LA TIERRA ROJA
Diego Martinez Vignatti

O.V. Spanish

While the interests of the major Western powers in South America are no secret, their political, economic and environmental depredations are not so well known. In this fourth feature, Argentinian director Diego Martinez Vignatti, who has lived in Brussels for 20 years, tackles this hot topic head-on. Deep in the Amazon rain forest, on the Argentinian side of the Brazilian border, Pierre, a Belgian employee of a multinational paper company, cuts, burns and bulldozes; illegally harvests exotic...