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Born in Pontoise (Val d’Oise) a German father and a mother of Saharan origin, Gert-Peter Bruch grew up in the neighborhood of Marcouville, ” in the Tour 45 », Before becoming a fierce defender of the Amazon rainforest, nicknamed the green lung of the earth.
For 30 years, the director and founder ofAmazon Planet NGO tries to preserve the forest and future generations with the famous native chief Raoni Metuktire. With his documentaries, Gert-Peter strives to give voice to the indigenous peoples of the indigenous land Broken-Jarina, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon.
With Sting and Raoni
“My activism was above all visual communication, before the world tour of English singer Sting with Chief Raoni for the benefit of the Amazon. I got to know this whole gang by joining me at the French stage as a volunteer ”, remembers the Pontoisien who presented his first photo exhibitions to the Louvrais theater cafeteria.
Gert-Peter Bruch then traveled the world to “carry the humanist message” of his favorite singer.
“It even seems that there was a contract on my head”, confides the former student of the college of Parc-aux-Charrettes, also passed through the Camille-Pissarro high school, where he met a certain Stephane Charbonnier, says Charb.
“Charb was two years older than me and we never really traded, although I too was drawing all the time at the time. I had even launched a journal local with a friend, ”Gert-Peter smiles.
His “big secret” is to have shown the neighborhood of his childhood to great indigenous chief Raoni, himself. It was in 2014.
“No one ever knew. I had taken Raoni to lunch with a friend of mine in Boissy-l’Aillerie, and on the way back, he wanted to see the place where I had grown up. So we went to Marcouville, where we arrived in the upper park. It was very moving for me ”
“Touching and funny”
Grand Chief Raoni, meanwhile, simply observed the neighborhood. “He never criticizes anything or anyone.” On the other hand, its presence has probably surprised the sole inhabitant that they have cross.
” It was a Boy. He stopped, staring at the chief, before running off shouting ” An Indian “! It was very funny. “
Invited by Joy Santos’, the founder from Babel Voyages and you No Mad, as part of the 7e edition of festival devoted “to respectful tourism environment ”, Gert-Peter Bruch will preview his film Terra Libre, narrated by actor Pierre Richard, Saturday June 26, 2021, at 8 p.m., at cinema L’Antarès by Vauréal.
« L’Amazonia disappears, literally swallowed up by our predatory development model. The forest is dying and its total destruction would leave no chance for the fight against global warming », Warns the director.
“Faced with the risk of our own extinction, the start of the guardians of the Amazon and their call for sacred union to protect future generations are a hope and an inspiration for humanity”, however nuances the Pontoisian.
“The natives only aspire to live normallyt striving to leave habitable our planet to all. They don’t ask not charity He insists.
With his NGO, Planète Amazone, Gert-Peter continues to warn: “The deforestation is like a constantly mutating coronavirus! “
A exchange with the public is also scheduled for June 26. The two-hour documentary is slated to hit theaters on September 22. The evening is also free, by reservation.
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