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The spear killing Huaorani are an ancient people. They have lived in isolation for so long that they speak a language unrelated to any other on the planet. Their way of life is threatened with extinction by tourists, missionaries and the wholesale pollution of their ancestral forest by American oil companies. This is the first time their story has been filmed. Accompanied by a survival expert, a group of seven students (aged 18-21) make a hazardous journey into the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon to study the effects of tourism on this small but fearsome nation. Ancient and modern cultures clash as the students struggle with the unkown and dangerous conditions in the Amazon and the Huaorani fight against global capitalism, religious brainwashing and oil pollution.

The spear killing Huaorani are an ancient people. They have lived in isolation for so long that they speak a language unrelated to any other on the planet. Their way of life is threatened with extinction by tourists, missionaries and the wholesale pollution of their ancestral forest by American oil companies. This is the first time their story has been filmed. Accompanied by a survival expert, a group of seven students (aged 18-21) make a hazardous journey into the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon to study the effects of tourism on this small but fearsome nation. Ancient and modern cultures clash as the students struggle with the unkown and dangerous conditions in the Amazon and the Huaorani fight against global capitalism, religious brainwashing and oil pollution.

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