After winning the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Debut Feature at Sundance this year, When Two Worlds Collide, the directorial debut of Heidi Brandenburg and Matthew Orzel, will arrive this month.
The doc concerns Amazonian land being fought over by President Alan Garcia and Alberto Pizango, the indigenous leader who wants to stop Garcia from extracting oils, minerals, and gas from the currently-untouched Amazonian land. As Garcia ignores the pleas of the indigenous people, a war erupts that shakes the Peruvian landscape.
Combining stock footage with their own, Orzel and Brandenburg look to create a rousing, complex, thought-provoking piece of cinema. See the trailer, along with a poster, below.
In this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders who will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. On the one side is President Alan Garcia, who, eager to enter the world stage, begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous Amazonian land. He is quickly met with fierce opposition from indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, whose impassioned speeches against Garcia’s destructive actions prove a powerful rallying cry to throngs of his supporters. When Garcia continues to ignore their pleas, a tense war of words erupts into deadly violence.
When Two Worlds Collide opens in New York on August 17th, followed by an opening in LA on September 16th.