Award-winning Brazilian filmmaker José Padilha is the director of controversial and critically-acclaimed films Bus 174, and Tropa de Elite (Elite Squad) – winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival of 2008. These films are intended to form part of a trilogy, the third part of which will focus on politicians. His film Secrets of the Tribe premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim.
The field of anthropology goes under the magnifying glass in this fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomamö Indians. In the 1960s and ’70s, a steady stream of anthropologists filed into the Amazon Basin to observe this “virgin” society untouched by modern life. Thirty years later, the events surrounding this infiltration have become a scandalous tale of academic ethics…