Road to Patagonia, The

[Available currently on various digital platforms.] Stunning cinematography and scenery dominate Matty Hannon's critically acclaimed, award-winning, fascinating, moving, rainbow-dotted, 91-minute documentary, filmed over 16 years, that follows Australian ecologist and artist Matty Hannon on a 50,000-km, 2.5-year journey where he and his traveling companion Heather Hillier, a permaculture farmer, travel through British Columbia, Canada, Mexico, Indonesia, Guatemala, Peru, West Sumatra, Chile, El Salvador, and Ecuador, and along the west coast of the United States where they surf pristine waters, soak up culture, and along the way they meet Amazonian shamans, Zapatista rebels, and Mapuche leaders and witness that virtually every modern-day intrusion (such as highways, mining operations, and dams) into these undeveloped areas is literally destroying both the existing ecology and human civilizations, which have existed sustainably for centuries.
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