"Grazing the Amazon" Film Screening

RWU is one of a handful of North American sites to screen the award-winning Brazilian documentary Grazing the Amazon (2018). The film is a compelling study of how cattle ranching has expanded into the Amazon biome, drastically transforming the lives of the human and non-human communities who make their homes there. Though it was produced before 2019's record-breaking fires, Grazing the Amazon explores the political and economic context that made those fires possible.

Please encourage your students to attend, especially if they are interested in Sustainability Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, International Relations, Portuguese language, Economics, Environmental Science, or Anthropology+Sociology. 

We will hold a brief Q&A after the screening, as well. The film's title in Portuguese is Sob a Pata do Boi ("under the cow's hooves"), and it features both subtitles and partial voice-overs in English. This screening is generously sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies Program and the University Honors Program.