{"id":25937,"date":"2019-05-06T10:37:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=25937"},"modified":"2019-05-06T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T15:37:52","slug":"watching-devastating-environmental-documentaries-panamas-tropical-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/watching-devastating-environmental-documentaries-panamas-tropical-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching Devastating Environmental Documentaries in Panama\u2019s Tropical Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/biomuseo-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25938\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/biomuseo-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/biomuseo-2019.jpg 638w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/biomuseo-2019-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9a R. Vaucher writes in Thrive Global. The Panama International Film Festival\u2019s selection of green docs reminds me how hard it is to find pristine and unpolluted corners of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>In April, I covered the <a href=\"http:\/\/iffpanama.org\/\">Panama International Film Festival<\/a>, a world cinema showcase. It was my fourth time at the festival, which is curated by Diana Sanchez, the senior director of the Toronto International Film Festival, one of the world\u2019s biggest and most prestigious. Sanchez is someone who gets paid to have impeccable taste in movies, so in Panama I get to see and write about thought provoking films that often never make it to the U.S..<\/p>\n<p>This year, after the festival, I made plans to get out of the capital and discover more of the Isthmus of Panama whose creation 2.8 million years ago was due to a colossal geological feat when two plates in the Earth\u2019s crust collided. That ancient geo-spectacle united two continents, divided two oceans and enabled a massive migration of flora, fauna and humans. Panama has played a major role in the planet\u2019s biodiversity ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Enough to merit a <a href=\"http:\/\/biomuseopanama.org\/\">Biomuse<\/a>o, designed by world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, whose wife Berta is Panamanian.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-338239\" src=\"https:\/\/content.thriveglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_2422.jpeg?resize=300\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3221px) 100vw, 3221px\" width=\"748\" height=\"454\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thriveglobal.com\/?attachment_id=338239\" data-id=\"338239\" \/><figcaption><em>Frank Gehry\u2019s seaside Biomuseo.<\/em> <strong>Credit Photo: Andr\u00e9a R. Vauche<\/strong>r<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The museum, a Disney Hall-inspired structure painted in primary colors, showcases the country\u2019s different eco-habitats: marine eco-systems, mangroves, freshwater rivers, mountain forests, volcanoes and more.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-338190\" src=\"https:\/\/content.thriveglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_6304.jpeg?resize=300\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2076px) 100vw, 2076px\" width=\"748\" height=\"553\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thriveglobal.com\/?attachment_id=338190\" data-id=\"338190\" \/><figcaption><em>Panama City: A mix of the old and the modern.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Credit photo: David Bloom <\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had already uncovered Panama\u2019s spiritual soul in Casco Viejo, the city\u2019s quaint colonial old town, a UNESCO World Heritage site, where the festival is held each year. But since this was my year to bask in the <em>ecological<\/em> soul of Panama, I began the festival by dipping into the Green Section, a selection of environmental documentaries.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sharkwater Extinction<\/strong><\/em>, directed by activist Rob Stewart, who died while making the beautifully 4K-shot film, is about the heartless industry of shark finning, driven by the Asian love for shark fin soup. In Costa Rica, Panama, Africa and even Los Angeles, fisherman catch the sleek creatures in huge nets, cut off their dorsal fins and throw back the mutilated sharks to die. Stewart says in the film that in the past three decades, 99% of the shark population has been decimated. His goal here was to make sharks seem as friendly as dolphins; he swims and hugs them without incident. His death, much less dramatic than expected, and never rending the film morbid, was due to hypoxia.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-337756\" src=\"https:\/\/content.thriveglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/SharkwaterExtinction_RobStewart_FilmingUnderwater.jpeg?resize=300\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 5120px) 100vw, 5120px\" width=\"748\" height=\"394\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thriveglobal.com\/?attachment_id=337756\" data-id=\"337756\" \/><figcaption><em>Director Rob Stewart swimming with sharks.<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Credit photo: Shark Extinction<\/strong> (still from film)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>The Biggest Little Farm<\/strong><\/em> perfectly depicts the complexities of mother nature with a capital M. Multiple Emmy-winning director John Chester documents the travails that befall him, his wife and dog when they trade a tiny L.A. apartment for 200 acres of drought depleted land in Ventura County. Idealistically, they try to build a sustainable and bio-diverse farm. They plant 10,000 fruit trees and over 200 crops and bring in chickens, goats and pig named Emma.\u00a0 Chester filmed over eight years and through many struggles, there were no frogs, no locusts, but enough wild rides to show them who\u2019s the boss.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Nix\u2019s inspiring film, <em><strong>Inventing Tomorrow<\/strong><\/em>, is about a diverse quartet of high school students \u2014 from Indonesia, India, Mexico and Hawaii \u2014 who were among the competitors at Intel\u2019s International Science and Engineering Fair. All of their projects deal with trying to solve high impact pollution problems in their neighborhoods and make the viewer conscious, on a microcosmic level, how we are destroying the Earth, a little here, a little there.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\">\n<li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-338490\" src=\"https:\/\/content.thriveglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Haviv-Huepethaue-desert-2.jpg?resize=300\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3300px) 100vw, 3300px\" width=\"748\" height=\"578\" data-link=\"https:\/\/thriveglobal.com\/?attachment_id=338490\" data-id=\"338490\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also caught a special screening of Sarah DuPont and Reuben Aaronson\u2019s <em><strong>River of Gold<\/strong><\/em>, which takes the science kids\u2019 problems \u2014 already awful \u2014 to another level from the movie\u2019s first image which dramatically shows how the Peruvian Amazon is being destroyed by illegal gold mining. Like the Blood Diamond situation before, it\u2019s drastic and happening at rapid speed as miners tear up the land \u2014 250 tons of earth need to be mined to make one gold wedding band.\u00a0 The sumptuous rain forest is now mutilated by swaths of burnt siena mud. At this rate, the Amazon region, the lungs of the world, will be destroyed in 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>When I couldn\u2019t take anymore, I booked a flight on CopaAir, one of the festival sponsors, to David, the third largest city in Panama and the gateway to the lush and mountainous Chiriqui province, just miles from Costa Rica. Juan Arauz, whose family has been in Panama since the 1600s and whose 3000 acre La Barqueta Plantation and cattle ranch has been in his family for four generations, assured me on the phone that Las Olas Resort, the hotel he built 20 years ago on the plantation\u2019s nine miles of private beach, would offer me the wild, verdant and unspoiled side of his country.\u00a0Stay tuned\u2026<br \/>\n\n<div class=\"wpcf7 no-js\" id=\"wpcf7-f16536-o1\" lang=\"\" dir=\"ltr\" data-wpcf7-id=\"16536\">\n<div class=\"screen-reader-response\"><p role=\"status\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\"><\/p> <ul><\/ul><\/div>\n<form action=\"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25937#wpcf7-f16536-o1\" method=\"post\" class=\"wpcf7-form init\" aria-label=\"Contact form\" novalidate=\"novalidate\" data-status=\"init\">\n<fieldset class=\"hidden-fields-container\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7\" value=\"16536\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_version\" value=\"6.1.6\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_locale\" value=\"\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_unit_tag\" value=\"wpcf7-f16536-o1\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_container_post\" value=\"0\" \/><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_posted_data_hash\" value=\"\" \/>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p><B><I>Sign Up for our Newsletter:<\/i><\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>Your Name (required)\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap\" data-name=\"your-name\"><input size=\"40\" maxlength=\"400\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-text wpcf7-validates-as-required\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" value=\"\" type=\"text\" name=\"your-name\" \/><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>Your Email (required)\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap\" data-name=\"your-email\"><input size=\"40\" maxlength=\"400\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-email wpcf7-validates-as-required wpcf7-text wpcf7-validates-as-email\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" value=\"\" type=\"email\" name=\"your-email\" \/><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><input class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-submit has-spinner\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Send\" \/>\n<\/p><div class=\"wpcf7-response-output\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andr\u00e9a R. 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