For the second part, the plan is to gather testimonies from different creators and/or activists, whose works are either inspired by or produced with the aim to protect and/or restore the Amazon rainforest. As a starting point, I have started to collaborate with Josefina Perdomo Rivera, who shares a family connection with Rivera. She is the founder and director of the project: Woman, Mistery of Love who Gives Life to Life from the organisation: Women for Peace. For the past two decades, Josefina has worked with communities from the south of Colombia, in regions historically affected by the country’s internal conflict. She spends most of her time in the town of Cartagena del Chairá**, working in projects of community development, particularly with women head-of-home who are also victims of the conflict. Through her (and in partnership with her) we have started working with Manuel Sueche, who is a community leader from the Uitoto Minika people, based in La Chorrera***.     

I have also been building other partnerships with other creators such as educator and documentary-maker: Robert Max Steenkist, who is also working on creative projects based on La Vorágine, Rivera and era of rubber exploitation; Mauricio Leiva-Cock, who is one of the creators of the Netflix original series Frontera Verde: Green Frontier. I have also been in contact with the president of the Instituto de Estudios para el Desarrollo y la Paz (INDEPAZ), Camilo González Posso, who has conducted research and developed community projects in the South of Colombia, in regions affected by the country’s internal conflict.