#aruanas

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Aruanas

Three friends leading a nonprofit organisation investigate environmental crimes in the Amazon involving a major mining company.

Tenho uma grande paixão por títulos dramáticos por isso na minha adolescência toda vez que eu entrava numa livraria eu morria de vontade de comprar todos os livros do Fiódor Dostoiévsk.  Mas esse texto merece todo o drama, afinal, ele circunda minhas agonias em relação ao desmatamento da Amazônia e de outros biomas brasileiros, a repetição de erros históricos e nossa apatia enquanto povo.

Esses dias eu e minha companheira maratonamos Aruanas, série da plataforma Globoplay, com texto de Estela Renner e Marcos Nisti e direção  de Carlos Manga Jr., não é uma série longa, contém apenas uma temporada até então, e apenas 10 episódios. Com o tema: a luta pela preservação do meio ambiente, a série traz a tona uma verdade pouco noticiada nos grandes veículos de comunicação.

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Aruanas aims to make the environment an ‘everyday topic’ at a time when politics is dominated by the interests of agribusiness

Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, an environmental activist meets with a journalist who warns that a mining company is responsible for a looming environmental disaster. “People are already getting sick,” he warns, before promising to bring her documentary proof the next day.

But in the jungle, someone is watching. Driving to their next meeting, the activist hears a phone ringing in the back of her car. She opens the trunk – and finds the journalist’s dead body.

The gruesome discovery is the opening act of the latest blockbuster series from Brazil’s telenovela powerhouse TV Globo: Aruanas. The series focuses on environmental journalists and activists in the country’s vast, forested interior, where 57 environmental defenders were killed in 2017.

Brazil’s telenovelas have a history of shaping public opinion on current affairs – and this series tackles one of the country’s most pressing issues: the high-stakes battle over the world’s largest rainforest at a time when politics is dominated by the interests of agribusiness.