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Back to Porto Velho in Amazon

Tomas Leach 7 January 2007, 8:08 PM

* THE FILMS ARE ON THIS WEEK - 19.55 Channel 4*

We start to return to Porto Velho and I buy some honey.

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4am in the morning. Its dark and cold. in Amazon

Tomas Leach 7 January 2007, 10:35 AM

Wanderlay starts his bus route at 4.30am, leaving Machadinha D'Oeste and driving through the countryside picking up kids for school.
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Pushing our luck in Amazon

Tomas Leach 6 January 2007, 4:13 PM

We try and find our character for the 7th documentary and feel like brash foreigners wading into the Amazon's problems.
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Trying to find Artur, the rubber soldier. in Amazon

Tomas Leach 5 January 2007, 11:11 PM

We are trying to find Artur, an ex-rubber soldier who Leandro photographed for Colors magazine.
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Porto Velho. in Amazon

Tomas Leach 5 January 2007, 3:08 AM

Dithering, car rental, drizzle and cowboys. The essential ingredients for not making short documentaries.
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Manaus again. in Amazon

Tomas Leach 4 January 2007, 9:36 PM

5 documentaries shot, too many modes of transport and now we take a plane.
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Champion of the Amazon in Amazon

Tomas Leach 4 January 2007, 7:12 AM

The champion of the Amazon tells us about boat trips to competition and we take motorbike taxis and a speedboat to catch the already departed Katatal.

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Shooting ratios and the arguments that ensue. in Amazon

Tomas Leach 3 January 2007, 6:11 PM

Shooting at a low ratio is something important to me. As is talking about these kind of things apparently.

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Tae Kwon Do and ants. in Amazon

Tomas Leach 3 January 2007, 9:40 AM

Ben gets eaten by ants, we find our next documentary and look at lightening above the jungle.
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A healer. in Amazon

Tomas Leach 2 January 2007, 1:00 PM

An Indian healer offers to show us where his tribe gather. We decide we don't want to make a documentary like that.
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The search for El Dorado in Amazon

Tomas Leach 2 January 2007, 12:00 AM

Marcelo is searching for El Dorado, the lost city of gold, and wont let us film him as his name is going down in eternity anyway.
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Documentary ideas ruined in minutes... in Amazon

Tomas Leach 1 January 2007, 12:00 AM

The problem of thinking of great documentary ideas and then finding out they are impossible.

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Getting distracted in Amazon

Tomas Leach 31 December 2006, 10:47 AM

The boat is a bit slow and we all think we are photographers.

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Soy Capitan, Soy Capitan. in Amazon

Tomas Leach 30 December 2006, 10:31 AM

The boat captain is the 4th film for 3 minutes wonders. We want to make more though.
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Engine failure. in Amazon

Tomas Leach 29 December 2006, 5:20 PM

Filming at dawn, avoiding hornets and trying to think of better ways to make films.
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The boat from Manaus to Barcelas. in Amazon

Tomas Leach 28 December 2006, 4:03 PM

Porto Sao Raimundo and just catching the Katatal.
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FourDoc's Filmmaker Tomas Leach takes us on his journey to make 3Minute Wonders in the Amazon.

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