All I have to offer are my own experiences and observations as a paramedic whose two worlds have collided. What happens to us when these two worlds collide? How do we respond, cope and recover? I wish I had the answer, but I don’t. The battle between neurons and emotions is a one-sided slip, that once on, a paramedic will have little chance to regain control. The sickening, emotionally numbing feeling a paramedic will experience upon being dispatched to their own home. However, there is an encounter that a paramedic cannot prepare for. Our loved ones are what keeps many of us caring for complete strangers. Yet often not far from our own minds, are our loved ones. However, paramedics carry on shift after shift providing assistance and care to their communities.
And the experiences can be life altering. They will be asked to drive or fly in any direction required and they will meet a myriad of people during a shift. An EMS crew will come in, check their equipment and await the buzz of the radio dispatch that will send them on their way. We accept the unknown, because every shift is an unknown. We carefully and systematically apply algorithms and checklists to navigate the emotional minefield of prehospital care. (Photo by the author.) IntroductionĮmergency medical service professionals are used to the emotional and physical challenges that our role commands. An activist documentary… at its center is Albert Pizango, a genuinely magnetic revolutionary.An ambulance in Australia. “The true-life struggle between indigenous Amazonian Peruvians and the government that is actively encouraging multinational corporations to encroach on their land. Shot over several years’ course, WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE, maintains a raw verité feel despite its narrative, temporal and geographic sprawl.”
“A vivid if unabashedly partisan depiction of the clash between indigenous Peruvian minorities and government interests. Shooting the film over eight years, (they) gained an entrée to Peru’s indigenous communities… Their proximity to this humble and charismatic leader provides an insider’s perspective on the development of the indigenous protest campaign.” Earnest, direct and sometimes surprisingly dramatic. (The filmmakers) undertake an in-depth investigation of these conflicts in the Peruvian Amazon with their first documentary feature. “Effectively clarifies complex social and political issues. “Tells with gripping immediacy the real-life Shakespearean tragedy. Filmed in breathtakingly beautiful color, with passionate direction and brilliant editing.” “A heart-stopping look at how indigenous people organize to fight a land grab to sell foreign investors their communally owned land.
The directors shot over the course of years, and they put epochal moments on the screen.” The rawest vision of capitalism run amok. With support from the Richard Brick, Geri Ashur & Sara Bershtel Fund for Social Justice Documentaries. Here is a documentary that updates that story with aplomb. We recently played the Oscar-nominated EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, a drama of Amazonian intrigue and Western corruption. “Frankly, they’re savages,” intones the Minister of the Interior on Peruvian TV. Pizango, reminiscent of Cesar Chavez in his charisma and implacability, organizes people who have called the rainforest home for a millennia, to oppose the illegal and violent takeover of their land. It is a David and Goliath battle currently being fought in one of the world’s most lush and magnificent rainforests. Alan Garcia, President of Peru (2006-2011), backed by the multinational corporations intent on exploiting the Amazon’s rich natural resources. Alberto Pizango, indigenous leader of Peru’s Amazonian people, vs.
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