YASUNI MAN

- A multi award-winning DOCUMENTARY film by Director/Producer, Ryan Patrick Killackey -

- THE FILM -

YASUNI MAN is the award winning documentary feature about a conflict raging deep within the Ecuadorian Amazon. It's a real-life Avatar story. Once under siege by missionaries seeking to civilize them, the Waorani people battle industry operatives and their own government in a fight to survive. Join filmmaker Ryan Patrick Killackey and his Waorani friend Otobo as they embark on an expedition into the most biodiverse forest on Earth. Witness what may be lost as oil companies encroach, human rights violations run rampant, and a forest Eden is destroyed - all for the oil that lies beneath Yasuni.

Featured on National Geographic Radio and TV, BBC Radio, PBS and The Guardian, Killackey’s Yasuni Man traveled the world, earning 35 official selections, 23 nominations, and 15 award wins. The film screened in 16 countries worldwide and partnered with the United Nations CINE-ONU program. Translated into 7 languages for it’s streaming release, Yasuni Man continues its effort to raise awareness around the exploitation of indigenous peoples in the Amazon, biodiversity and habitat loss, and the unsustainable exploitation of non-renewable natural resources.

Supported by a diverse coalition of NGOs and a powerful group of celebrities, a portion of the film’s proceeds will go to the Amazon Emergency Fund, a fund created to fight the outbreak of COVID-19 in Amazon indigenous communities - www.amazonemergencyfund.org

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- THE TRAILER -

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- TESTIMONIALS -

"Yasuni Man contains some of the more remarkable scenes ever caught on film; it's a portrait of a place and a people under tremendous stress, and on whose fate much of the planet's future rests."

- Bill McKibben, Author and Founder of 350.org

"Yasuni Man is an excellent and comprehensive film. It brought back some lovely reflections as well as sad and deep concerns for the Amazon.  With missionaries, oil companies, timber companies, and the government intruding ever more, one wonders if anything to the local tribal cultures will be left in a few years. Yasuni Man raises these deep issues better than any such film I've seen. This film will be invaluable in the years ahead as part of a life of local peoples that will have wholly changed and their environment modified.  Such films become a cultural treasure."

                              - Dr. George Schaller, Conservationist, The Wildlife Conservation Society

“Yasuni Man is an extraordinary film that takes us inside the Amazon rainforest and its vibrant indigenous cultures. Ryan Killackey has brought us a treasure at this critical moment when the intertwined fates of the rainforest and planet Earth hang in the balance.”

- Scott Wallace, Author, The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
                 Contributor, National Geographic Magazine

“Watching a filmmaker use tweezers to extract wriggling, inch-long Amazonian parasites from his bloody leg would normally rank among the more stomach-churning of cinematic experiences, but it is a mere sideshow in a new documentary that shows Ecuador’s most famous nature reserve faces far graver threats than it poses.”

                                                           - Jonathan Watts, Journalist and Global environment editor, The Guardian

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- TAKE ACTION NOW! -

CONTRIBUTE:

• Amazon Emergency Fund - www.amazonemergencyfund.org

SIGN:

• Waorani Resist Campaign - www.waoresist.amazonfrontlines.org/action/

• End Amazon Crude Campaign - www.amazonwatch.org/take-action/end-amazon-crude

SUPPORT:

• Amazon Watch - www.amazonwatch.org

• Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) - www.conaie.org

• Asociación de Mujeres Waorani del Ecuador - www.amwae.org

• Yasunidos - www.yasunidosinternational.wordpress.com

• Accion Ecologica - www.accionecologica.org

• Tiputini Biodiversity Station - www.usfq.edu.ec/programas_academicos/Tiputini

• Yasuni Biodiversity Station - www.yasuni.ec/inicio_en/

• Amazon Conservation Team - www.amazonteam.org

• HAHKU - www.hakhu.net

• Pachamama Alliance - www.pachamama.org

• Center For Biological Diversity - www.biologicaldiversity.org

• UCLA Center for Tropical Research - www.ioes.ucla.edu/ctr/

• Amazon Frontlines - www.amazonfrontlines.org

• Ceibo Foundation - www.alianzaceibo.org

• Amazon Conservation Association - www.amazonconservation.org

• Amazon Aid Foundation - www.amazonaid.org

• Artists for Amazonia - www.artistsforamazonia.org

• Rainforest Foundation - www.rainforestfoundation.org

• Rainforest Action Network - www.ran.org

• Pachamama Alliance - www.pachamama.org

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- THE ACCOLADES -

(In chronological order)

*WINNER - "Audience Award Silver - Valley of the Docs" - Mill Valley Film Festival - San Rafael, California - 10/7/16

*WINNER - "Panda Award for Emerging Talent" - Wildscreen Film Festival - Bristol, England - 10/11/16

OFFICIAL SELECTION - Wild Scotland Film Festival - Dumfries, Scotland - 2/18/17

*WINNER - "Best Feature Film" - New York Wild Film Festival - New York City, New York - 2/29/17

OFFICIAL SELECTION - D.C. Environmental Film Festival - Washington, D.C. - 3/19/17

OFFICIAL SELECTION - International Wildlife Film Festival - Missoula, Montana- 4/16/17

*WINNER - "Audience Award for Best Film" - San Francisco Green Film Festival - San Francisco, California - 4/23/17

*WINNER - "Best International Film" - Cinema Planeta International Environmental Film Festival - Cuernavaca, Mexico - 5/4/17

OFFICIAL SELECTION - Mountainfilm Festival - Telluride, Colorado - 6/26/17

OFFICIAL SELECTION - ECOador International Film Festival - Quito, Ecuador - 7/29/17

*WINNER - "Directors Award for Fortitude in Filmmaking" - Woods Hole Film Festival - Woods Hole, Cape Cod, Massachusetts - 8/1/17

NOMINEE - "Best Conservation Film" - Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival - Grand Teton National Park, WY - 9/26/17

NOMINEE - "Best Environmental Film of the Year" - Green Film Network Awards - Toronto, Canada - 10/20/17

OFFICIAL SELECTION - DOCtober Film Festival - Bellingham, Washington - 10/30/17

*WINNER - "Audience Award for Best Documentary - Explorers and Adventures" - Friday Harbor Film Festival - San Juan Island, WA - 11/5/17

NOMINEE - "Best Documentary Film" and "Best Environmental Spotlight Film" - Red Nation Film Festival - Los Angeles, California - 11/8/17

*WINNER - "Best Documentary Feature for People and Cultures" - Mountainfilm Festival Graz - Graz, Austria - 11/14/17

OFFICIAL SELECTION - Wild & Scenic Film Festival - Nevada City, California - 1/12/18

OFFICIAL SELECTION - United Nations Cine-ONU Program Screening - Brussels, Belgium - 2/21/18

*WINNER - "Special Jury Prize - Dublin Film Critic's Circle" - Dublin International Film Festival - Dublin, Ireland - 3/4/18

*WINNER - "Best Environmental Film" - Sedona International Film Festival - Sedona, Arizona - 3/4/18

*WINNER - "Jury Award - Excellence in Documenting a Human Rights Issue" - Bellingham Human Rights Film Fest - Bellingham, WA - 3/13/18

OFFICIAL SELECTION - Films4Climate - Guadalajara International Film Festival - 3/14/18

NOMINEE - "Best Feature Film" - Festival Internacional de Cine Ambiental (FINCA) - Buenos Aires, Argentina - 5/30/18

*WINNER - "Gaia Prize for Environmental Filmmaking" - Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival - Middlebury, Vermont - 8/28/18

NOMINEE - “Best Documentary Film” - Port Townsend Film Festival - Port Townsend, Washington - 9/21/18

OFFICIAL SELECTION - Heartland International Film Festival - Indianapolis, Indiana - 10/21/18

*WINNER - "Best Environmental Film" - Wildlife Film Festival Rotterdam - Rotterdam, Holland - 10/27/18

OFFICIAL SELECTION - Singapore Eco Film Festival - Singapore, Singapore - 11/02/18

OFFICIAL SELECTION - Hong Kong Eco Film Festival - Hong Kong, China - 11/17/18

*WINNER - “Best of Festival” - Eco Cup Environmental Film Festival of Russia - Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia - 12/2/18

OFFICIAL SELECTION - United Nations Cine-ONU - 70th Anniversary UN Declaration of Human Rights - Stockholm, Sweden - 12/04/18

*WINNER - “Special Jury Award” - Rain International Nature Film Festival - India Premiere - Munnar, India - 1/25/19

OFFICIAL SELECTION - World Village Festival - Helsinki, Finland - 5/26/19

OFFICIAL SELECTION - WildView Taiwan - Taipei, Taiwan - 6/29/19

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- SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS -

(from research conducted in the film)

PUBLISHED

BIRDS - Report 1 of 8 – Publication date: 3/1/19

"Rapid inventory, preliminary annotated checklist, and breeding records of the birds (Aves) of the Boanamo indigenous community, Orellana Province, Ecuador" - Greeney, H. et al 2018 - NEOTROPICAL BIODIVERSITY

MAMMALS - Report 2 of 8 - Publication date: 8/10/20

“Species richness and ethnozoological annotations on mammals at the Boanamo indigenous community, Waorani territory, Orellana and Pastaza provinces, Ecuador” - Tirira, D.G. et al 2020 - MAMMALIA

SUBMITTED for PUBLICATION

HERPS (Reptiles and Amphibians) - Report 3 of 8 - Submission Date: 8/16/20

FISH - Report 4 of 8 - Submission Date: 8/21/20

WORKS IN PROGRESS

PLANTS - Reports 5 of 8 - Submission Date: Late 2020

FUNGUS - Report 6 of 8 - Submission Date: Late 2020

RAPID BIOLOGIAL INVENTORY - Report 7 of 8 - Submission Date: Early 2021

MEGATRANSECT - Report 8 of 8 - Submission Date: Early 2021

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- IN THE NEWS -

(In chronological order)

Mongabay.com – Interview - Yasuni on film: could a documentary save the world’s most biodiverse ecosystem? - https://news.mongabay.com/2010/10/yasuni-on-film-could-a-documentary-save-the-worlds-most-biodiverse-ecosystem/ - 6/10/10

National Geographic Radio - Weekend with Boyd Matson - National Geographic Podcast – Episode 1211 - http://radio.nationalgeographic.com/radio/ng-weekend-archives/1211/ - 3/11/12

National Geographic Radio - Weekend with Boyd Matson - National Geographic Podcast – Episode 1302 - http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-content/audio/ngwkd1302-Hour1_Seg1-cb1357941636.mp3 and http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/13/january-13-2013-bonding-with-elephants-unlocking-our-genealogy-and-more/ - 1/13/13

Yale Environment 360 – Documentary Short Co-Production – “Into the Heart of Yasuni” - http://e360.yale.edu/features/video_into_heart_of_ecuador_yasuni_killackey - 4/15/13

The Hill – Op-Ed - http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/232677-all-you-need-is-ecuador - 2/13/15

National Geographic Channel/PBS – Film Subject – ‘Earth A New Wild – Episode 3: Forests” - http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2i3hse - 2/28/15

Mongabay.com – Interview - https://news.mongabay.com/2016/10/new-film-documents-real-life-avatar-story/ - 10/4/16

The Guardian - Interview - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/12/yasuni-man-film-ecuador-ryan-killackey - 10/12/16

BBC Radio 4 – Interview - Costing the Earth with Tom Heap – “Black Gold in Paradise” - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ffv88 - 2/22/17

Washingtonian Magazine – Featurette - “When and Where: 16 Things You Really Ought to do this Month” - https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/02/28/16-things-to-do-around-dc-this-march/ - 2/28/2017

The Jane Goodall Institute – Interview - “The Amazon You Have Not Seen Is Disappearing: YASUNI MAN” - http://news.janegoodall.org/2017/03/16/the-amazon-you-havent-seen-but-need-to-protect-yasuni-man/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss - 3/16/17

The Missoula Independent – Review - “Three Films You Must See At This Years International Wildlife Film Festival” - http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/three-must-see-features-at-this-years-international-wildlife-film-festival/Content?oid=3835214 - 4/14/17

The Missoulian – Interview - Destruction in the Amazon: UM grad's film shows plight of tribe vs. oil companies - http://missoulian.com/news/local/destruction-in-the-amazon-um-grad-s-film-shows-plight/article_7498f2ec-0dfa-5cd6-8e6b-43c67e2c470f.html - 5/03/17   - 5/03/17

Telluride Inside-and-Out – Podacst – “Mountainfilm: Ryan Killackey and Yasuni Man” - http://www.tellurideinside.com/2017/05/mountainfilm-ryan-killackey-yasuni-man.html - 5/15/17

Mongabay.com – Interview – “Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival Finalist: Yasuni Man” -  https://news.mongabay.com/2017/09/jackson-hole-film-festival-finalist-qa-yasuni-man/ - 9/15/17

NBC Nightly News – Channel 5 Chicago – Yasuni Man goes to Jackson Hole - at the Field Museum of Natural History w/ Lauren Petty – http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/making-a-difference/homewood-amazon-nomination-448342813.html – 9/20/17

Irish Times – “Dublin iInternational Film Festival: The Must-See Movies” - https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/dublin-international-film-festival-the-must-see-movies-1.3365723 - 1/24/18

Sedona International Film Festival – Yasuni Man Interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF6EIRUkpyw - 3/21/18

SoCal350.org – Watch the Award Winning Yasuni Man in LA - http://socal350.org/watch-the-award-winning-yasuni-man-june-14/ - 6/4/18

KNEKT.tv – Live Broadcast – Yasuni Man at the Harmony Gold Theater in Hollywood. With Special Guests – John Densmor fo the Doors, Ed Begley Jr, Irmelin DiCaprio, A Bone Martinez, Ingrid Marie Rivera, Mickey Sumner - https://www.knekt.tv/channels/details/bb_amazonwatch - 6/14/18

KPFK 90.7 FM – Los Angeles – “Earth Justice Radio” – Interview with Yasuni Man filmmaker Ryan Patrick Killackey. – 7/11/18

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