
YASUNI MAN is the award winning documentary feature about a conflict raging deep within the Ecuadorian Amazon. It's a real-life Avatar story. Once under siege by missionaries seeking to civilize them, the Waorani people battle industry operatives and their own government in a fight to survive. Join filmmaker Ryan Patrick Killackey and his Waorani friend Otobo as they embark on an expedition into the most biodiverse forest on Earth. Witness what may be lost as oil companies encroach, human rights violations run rampant, and a forest Eden is destroyed - all for the oil that lies beneath Yasuni.
Featured on National Geographic Radio and TV, BBC Radio, PBS and The Guardian, Killackey’s Yasuni Man traveled the world, earning 35 official selections, 23 nominations, and 15 award wins. The film screened in 16 countries worldwide and partnered with the United Nations CINE-ONU program. Translated into 7 languages for it’s streaming release, Yasuni Man continues its effort to raise awareness around the exploitation of indigenous peoples in the Amazon, biodiversity and habitat loss, and the unsustainable exploitation of non-renewable natural resources.
Supported by a diverse coalition of NGOs and a powerful group of celebrities, a portion of the film’s proceeds will go to the Amazon Emergency Fund, a fund created to fight the outbreak of COVID-19 in Amazon indigenous communities - www.amazonemergencyfund.org
*WINNER - "Audience Award for Best Documentary - Explorers and Adventures" - Friday Harbor Film Festival - San Juan Island, WA - 11/5/17
- TAKE ACTION NOW! -
CONTRIBUTE:
Amazon Emergency Fund - www.amazonemergencyfund.org
SIGN:
Waorani Resist Campaign - www.waoresist.amazonfrontlines.org/action/
End Amazon Crude Campaign - www.amazonwatch.org/take-action/end-amazon-crude
SUPPORT:
Amazon Watch - www.amazonwatch.org
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) - www.conaie.org
Asociación de Mujeres Waorani del Ecuador - www.amwae.org
Yasunidos - www.yasunidosinternational.wordpress.com
Accion Ecologica - www.accionecologica.org
Tiputini Biodiversity Station - www.usfq.edu.ec/programas_academicos/Tiputini
Yasuni Biodiversity Station - www.yasuni.ec/inicio_en/
Amazon Conservation Team - www.amazonteam.org
HAHKU - www.hakhu.net
Pachamama Alliance - www.pachamama.org
Center For Biological Diversity - www.biologicaldiversity.org
UCLA Center for Tropical Research - www.ioes.ucla.edu/ctr/
Amazon Frontlines - www.amazonfrontlines.org
Ceibo Foundation - www.alianzaceibo.org
Amazon Conservation Association - www.amazonconservation.org
Amazon Aid Foundation - www.amazonaid.org
Artists for Amazonia - www.artistsforamazonia.org
Rainforest Foundation - www.rainforestfoundation.org
Rainforest Action Network - www.ran.org
Pachamama Alliance - www.pachamama.org
- Year2017
- Runtime94 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Spanish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorRyan Patrick Killackey
- CastRyan Patrick Killackey, Otobo Baihua
- EditorMalcolm Lam
YASUNI MAN is the award winning documentary feature about a conflict raging deep within the Ecuadorian Amazon. It's a real-life Avatar story. Once under siege by missionaries seeking to civilize them, the Waorani people battle industry operatives and their own government in a fight to survive. Join filmmaker Ryan Patrick Killackey and his Waorani friend Otobo as they embark on an expedition into the most biodiverse forest on Earth. Witness what may be lost as oil companies encroach, human rights violations run rampant, and a forest Eden is destroyed - all for the oil that lies beneath Yasuni.
Featured on National Geographic Radio and TV, BBC Radio, PBS and The Guardian, Killackey’s Yasuni Man traveled the world, earning 35 official selections, 23 nominations, and 15 award wins. The film screened in 16 countries worldwide and partnered with the United Nations CINE-ONU program. Translated into 7 languages for it’s streaming release, Yasuni Man continues its effort to raise awareness around the exploitation of indigenous peoples in the Amazon, biodiversity and habitat loss, and the unsustainable exploitation of non-renewable natural resources.
Supported by a diverse coalition of NGOs and a powerful group of celebrities, a portion of the film’s proceeds will go to the Amazon Emergency Fund, a fund created to fight the outbreak of COVID-19 in Amazon indigenous communities - www.amazonemergencyfund.org
*WINNER - "Audience Award for Best Documentary - Explorers and Adventures" - Friday Harbor Film Festival - San Juan Island, WA - 11/5/17
- TAKE ACTION NOW! -
CONTRIBUTE:
Amazon Emergency Fund - www.amazonemergencyfund.org
SIGN:
Waorani Resist Campaign - www.waoresist.amazonfrontlines.org/action/
End Amazon Crude Campaign - www.amazonwatch.org/take-action/end-amazon-crude
SUPPORT:
Amazon Watch - www.amazonwatch.org
Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) - www.conaie.org
Asociación de Mujeres Waorani del Ecuador - www.amwae.org
Yasunidos - www.yasunidosinternational.wordpress.com
Accion Ecologica - www.accionecologica.org
Tiputini Biodiversity Station - www.usfq.edu.ec/programas_academicos/Tiputini
Yasuni Biodiversity Station - www.yasuni.ec/inicio_en/
Amazon Conservation Team - www.amazonteam.org
HAHKU - www.hakhu.net
Pachamama Alliance - www.pachamama.org
Center For Biological Diversity - www.biologicaldiversity.org
UCLA Center for Tropical Research - www.ioes.ucla.edu/ctr/
Amazon Frontlines - www.amazonfrontlines.org
Ceibo Foundation - www.alianzaceibo.org
Amazon Conservation Association - www.amazonconservation.org
Amazon Aid Foundation - www.amazonaid.org
Artists for Amazonia - www.artistsforamazonia.org
Rainforest Foundation - www.rainforestfoundation.org
Rainforest Action Network - www.ran.org
Pachamama Alliance - www.pachamama.org
- Year2017
- Runtime94 minutes
- LanguageEnglish, Spanish
- CountryUnited States
- DirectorRyan Patrick Killackey
- CastRyan Patrick Killackey, Otobo Baihua
- EditorMalcolm Lam