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Two films by Alan Ereira about the Kogi people, an indigenous group that resides in Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains.
This is the last civilization of pre-Colombian America that vanished 400 years ago. It did not die - it went into hiding. For centuries the Kogi have watched us from their Mountain fastness. This film is their message, and their warning.
Twenty years ago Alan Ereira's influential television film From The Heart of the World: The Elder Brothers' Warning brought global attention to the Kogi people of Colombia, a remote and ancient South American civilization determined to caution us about environmental damage to the earth. Now, two decades later and convinced that their message has gone unheeded, the next generation of Kogi are reaching out to the world once more with a much more specific warning about the future of the planet.