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Situated in the north east corner of Columbia, South America, near the Venezuelan border, lies one of the world’s most remote and spectacular mountain ranges - The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. This region is home to the reclusive Kogi, one of the last remaining traditional indigenous cultures, a people who have largely maintained their traditional ways by avoiding contact with “little brother”, their name for those in the outside world who destroy the planet with warfare, pollution and ignorance. They are the gatekeepers and ardent defenders of the sacred summits that surround them, while living in the shadows of a bitter civil war.

Filmmaker Peter Chrzanowski, has led a life of risk. As a brash youth he flirted with danger in the fast-paced world of extreme skiing, often in the mountain regions of South America. Then, he nearly lost his life in a bitter fall. His first encounter with the Kogi was on one of his adventures. He had tried to convince them that he was unlike the rest of ‘little brother’ but was turned back before he could reach the summits. Ten years later he returned to the area with new outlook and a paraglider, and using the power of only the sun and the wind, was granted one sacred flight. SACRED FLIGHT is a spectacular look into a remote and singular culture as it battles for survival amidst growing global threats, and the journey of one man who entered their life and transformed his own.

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Directed by Peter Chrzanowski & Ivan Hughes
Produced by Peter Chrzanowski
Edited by Ivan Hughes

Format: HD
Running time: 26 minutes

© 2009 An Extreme Explorations film with Fringe Filmworks, Inc. 

 

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