The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story. — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work is some of the only documentation of cultures that have since vanished. But Guerra did not want white… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
And what they believe in real life is complicated. Theodor Koch-Grunberg wrote in his diary that indigenous peoples in the Amazon see these outsiders… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
The two explorers are given fictional names. But as in real life, they travel to the Amazon roughly a generation apart, in the early-to-mid… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
In the end, all Republicans want to make sure we don't increase taxes. That's where we differ with the Democrats. — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
The Ocaina and many of the other indigenous peoples of the Amazon were nearly wiped out during the rubber boom in the late 19th… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
Both the old and young Karamakates are portrayed by indigenous men, neither of them professional actors. The old shaman is played by Antonio Bolivar… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
"Embrace Of The Serpent" has been a big deal for Colombians outside the Amazon. It's been showing continuously there for more than three months.… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
Karamakate says, "to become a warrior, every Cohiuano man must leave everything behind and go into the jungle, guided only by his dreams. In… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
