Jeremy Xido

Set deep within the Brazilian rainforest where lush vegetation runs into endless dirt roads, Pia Marais’ fourth feature Transamazonia is a measured portrayal of a conflicted landscape, produced in collaboration with the Assurini people of the Trocará Indigenous Territory. The film focuses on two Westerners, the evangelist Lawrence Byrne and his teenage daughter, the sole survivor of a plane crash nine years prior. Byrne is capitalizing on his daughter’s supposedly miraculous survival, promoting her as a faith healer for the local population.