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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[1] |
Distributed by | MacGillivray Freeman Films |
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Running time | 38 minutes [2] |
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]
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]