Settler's Film Club: Big River Man - Swims the Amazon

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When:

Fri 13 Aug ’10, 8:00pm–10:15pm

Where: Oratia Settlers Hall, 569 West Coast Rd, Oratia Show map

Restrictions: R15

Ticket Information:

Adult : $10.00
Gold Card and student: $7.00
Booking fees may apply

Favourites:

Big River Man – Swims the Amazon (cert. M.) This film has to be seen to be believed…

If there is a man on our planet that does unique things, then he is Martin Strel a.k.a. ‘Big River Man’. He has devoted his life to swimming the world's greatest rivers and promoting the importance of clean waters and rainforests around the world. During this epic journey he suffered from blisters, sunburn, exotic stomach illnesses, all the while trying to avoid piranhas, anacondas, crocodiles, alligators, river sharks, and a small parasitic fish known as the candiru. Martin is also a rather overweight horse-burger loving Slovenian in his fifties, who drinks bottles of red wine to get extra power...even when swimming!

Director John Maringouin set out to make an environmentally aware documentary about this eccentric, larger-than-life swimmer. He ended up journeying deep into the oppressively remote Amazon, following Martin and his team into their own Heart of Darkness as they descend into a nightmare of illness and insanity.

Festival awards: Sundance 2009: Best Cinematography in World Cinema Documentary Competition / Hamptons film festival 2009: Award for Pioneering Vision 2010 Cinema Eye Awards: 3 nominations.

Tel: 09 818 2489 for tickets/info or e-mail: settlersfilmclub@xtra.co.nz