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It was considered to be among the world’s most productive partnerships between an Indigenous chief and a Westerner. For five decades, Chief Raoni and Belgian film director Jean-Pierre Dutilleux enlisted
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The renowned chief from the Amazon rainforest and the Belgian filmmaker appeared to be close friends at this year's Cannes Film Festival. Far from the flashing cameras, however, their decades-long partnership was nearing its end.
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The renowned chief from the Amazon rainforest and the Belgian filmmaker appeared to be close friends at this year's Cannes Film Festival. With his feathered crown and wooden lip plate, Chief Raoni of the Kayapo tribe is instantly recognizable the world over. Almost always in the background was a less familiar face, that of Jean-Pierre Dutilleux, whose documentary about Raoni was a 1979 Oscar nominee.
It was considered to be among the world’s most productive partnerships between an Indigenous chief and a Westerner.