When Two Worlds Collide

Name: When Two Worlds Collide
Genre: Documentary
Released: August 17, 2016
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 71

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First Run Features | Release Date: August 17, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: In this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders who will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. On the one side is President Alan Garcia, who, eager to enter the world stage, begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas fromIn this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders who will stop at nothing to keep their respective goals intact. On the one side is President Alan Garcia, who, eager to enter the world stage, begins aggressively extracting oil, minerals, and gas from untouched indigenous Amazonian land. He is quickly met with fierce opposition from indigenous leader Alberto Pizango, whose impassioned speeches against Garcia’s destructive actions prove a powerful rallying cry to throngs of his supporters. When Garcia continues to ignore their pleas, a tense war of words erupts into deadly violence.… Expand

Director: Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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Noel Murray

Aug 17, 2016

When Two Worlds Collide employs a variety of styles and approaches to construct a single gripping narrative. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Aug 18, 2016

The film makes its case powerfully, and the myriad parallel situations in which private commercial interests continue to trump environmental ones worldwide makes that viewpoint easy to accept as valid. Read full review

Justin Lowe

Aug 18, 2016

Earnest, direct and sometimes surprisingly dramatic. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

Aug 18, 2016

Listless at times and lacking the killer instinct required to follow through on the emotional toll that the fighting took on its survivors, the documentary is far more insightful about the buildup to bloodshed than it is about the mess that was left behind in its wake. Read full review

Robert Abele

Sep 17, 2016

Ultimately, When Two Worlds Collide has a breathless urgency to it, even if its structuring of events feels a bit ramshackle, and the directness of its environmental warnings feel no different than a thousand other message docs. Read full review

Farran Smith Nehme

Aug 18, 2016

While clearly on the side of the protesters, the filmmakers are still determined to explain every legal detail, and at times matters become bogged down in endless televised journalists and snappish legislators. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Aug 16, 2016

The issues presented in When Two Worlds Collide are so crucial that it feels churlish to characterize it as a dutiful, and ultimately pedestrian, documentary. There is something evasive about it as well. Read full review

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