Amazon_(1997_film) Knowpia

Amazon
Amazon
	Film poster
Directed by	Kieth Merrill
Written by	Kieth Merrill; Loren McIntyre
Produced by	Kieth Merrill; Isaac Palmer; Jonathan Stern
Narrated by	Linda Hunt
Cinematography	Mike Hoover
Edited by	Stephen L. Johnson
Music by	Alan Williams
Distributed by	MacGillivray Freeman Films
Release date	1997;
Running time	38 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Amazon is a 1997 American short documentary film directed by Kieth Merrill. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.^[3]

Summary edit

The film features ethnobiologist Mark Plotkin, who discusses the role of rainforest conservation and the benefits of investigating it further in the interest of medical and scientific knowledge.^[4]^[5]