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An indigenous environmental activist takes on the large businesses that are destroying the Amazon.
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| NewcityRay PrideHeidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel's crisp, brisk When Two Worlds Collide captures the 2009 confrontation between Peru's president Alan Garcia, hailing from the elites, and indigenous activists who intend to preserve their Amazonian rainforest hom |
| CinencuentroSebastian Zavala KahnA relevant documentary with a view as objective as possible, allowing the audience to generate their own opinions. [Full review in Spanish] |
| IndiewireDavid EhrlichListless at times and lacking the killer instinct required to follow through on the emotional toll that the fighting took on its survivors, the documentary is far more insightful about the buildup to bloodshed than it is about the mess that was left behind in its wake. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyThe film makes its case powerfully, and the myriad parallel situations in which private commercial interests continue to trump environmental ones worldwide makes that viewpoint easy to accept as valid. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJustin LoweEarnest, direct and sometimes surprisingly dramatic. |
| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlThe directors shot over the course of years, and they put epochal moments on the screen, including a 2007 battle between protesters and police that left more than ten of each dead. |
| Film InternationalElias SavadaMuch like the Native American struggles in the United States, the film focuses on the battle for truth, justice, and the South American way by Peru's ethnic citizens. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleUltimately, When Two Worlds Collide has a breathless urgency to it, even if its structuring of events feels a bit ramshackle, and the directness of its environmental warnings feel no different than a thousand other message docs. |
| Paste MagazineKenji FujishimaBrandenburg and Orzel's film is an activist documentary, and at its center is Alberto Pizango, a genuinely magnetic revolutionary who organizes and leads the Peruvian Amazonians against President Alan Garcia. |
| AV ClubNoel MurrayWhen Two Worlds Collide employs a variety of styles and approaches to construct a single gripping narrative. |