The Charcoal People (2000)

Name: The Charcoal People
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2000-01-20

1h 4m

Running Time

Plot.

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the impoverished migrant workers who are chopping down the Amazon rainforest to create charcoal for pig iron production used primarily in the automobile industry. The film examines the children and elders and their daily lives and work as they burn timber in igloo-looking huts, their bodies charred gray for $2 a day, struggling to survive.

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This Movie Is About.

environment ·

migrant worker ·

poverty ·

amazon ·

child labor ·

ecology ·

automobile industry ·

environmental destruction ·

iron

Cast & Crew.

Nigel Noble

Director

José Padilha

Writer / Producer

Marcos Prado

Writer / Co-Producer

João Nabuco

Music

Ann Collins

Editor

Flávio Zangrandi

Director of Photography

Peter Miller

Sound

Felipe Lacerda

Editor

Details.

Release Date
January 20, 2000

Original Name
Os Carvoeiros

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 4m

Genres
Documentary

Wiki.

The Carvoeiros is a 1999 Brazilian documentary film directed by the English Nigel Noble, who has a realistic style, at the age of 56 won the Oscar by the documentary Close Harmony, about a choral of children and elderly, from 1981. Known as "true cinema", for being filmed without a previous script and for faithfully treating the life of the carvoeiros, the documentary was inspired by the photographic essay "The Carvoeiros" by Marcos Prado (cinesta). Unlike the film, which the recordings lasted from April to May 1998, Marcos Prado spent eight years working on his project.