Exclusive: Clip from Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, and Rob Grobman’s ‘We Are Guardians’

Documentary is happy to debut an exclusive clip from Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea Greene, and Rob Grobman’s environmental documentary We Are Guardians (2023), which kicks off a U.S. theatrical screening tour this Friday in Los Angeles. The film, produced by Academy Award winner Fischer Stevens’s Highly Flammable in collaboration with Appian Way, Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company, is a comprehensive examination of the ongoing deforestation crisis in the Amazon Rainforest. The film highlights the effort of Indigenous forest guardians to save the rainforest as well as the economic factors that lead to its destruction. 

This clip introduces Marçal Guajajara, described by co-director Rob Grobman as “the leader of the forest guardians in his local village in the Araribóia Territory on the southern edge of the Brazilian Amazon. His people, the Guajajara, have fought invasion and destruction of their ancestral lands for over 400 years. Today, Araribóia is surrounded by deforestation, and illegal invasions by loggers and land-grabbing farmers have intensified. Marçal and his fellow guardians risk their lives to protect and monitor these ancient forests, which have been their home for millennia.” 

We Are Guardians will screen in over 50 U.S. markets through a release from Area23a, the distributor behind pre-COVID box office hit Fantastic Fungi (2019). According to Grobman, 100% of proceeds from the film will go to supporting continued impact work in the Amazon. The film is streaming on Netflix in Latin America; worldwide rights excluding North and Latin America are held by ZDF Studios subsidiary Off the Fence.