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The boat from Manaus to Barcelas. in Amazon

28 December 2006, 4:03 PM

Porto Sao Raimundo and just catching the Katatal.
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Documentary ideas ruined in minutes... in Amazon

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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Soy Capitan, Soy Capitan. in Amazon

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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Trying to find Artur, the rubber soldier. in Amazon

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

5 January 2007, 3:08 AM

Dithering, car rental, drizzle and cowboys. The essential ingredients for not making short documentaries.
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Shooting ratios and the arguments that ensue. in Amazon

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

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

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

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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Engine failure. in Amazon

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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Manaus again. in Amazon

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

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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Getting distracted in Amazon

31 December 2006, 10:47 AM

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

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Pushing our luck in Amazon

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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Back to Porto Velho in Amazon

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

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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Tomas Leach

Tomas Leach

Tomas Leach is an independent filmmaker. He uploaded his film "The GlassEye Maker" to FourDocs in 2005. After seeing this film on the site, Kate Vogel commissioned him to make a series of 3 Minute Wonders in the Amazon. He has also completed a documentary about bee-keeping in Sarajevo and is currently making an hour long documentary for Swiss TV.

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By digitalis

Hi Tomas, Thanks for this blog - really interesting, really inciteful. I share your feeling of always wanting to make the next film better, the fear that what your making might be pedestrian. Ironica...

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