Documentary about how the Mesoamerica jungle is being exploted. A history of a man searching to own nature, who through experiences of the unique and beautiful Quetzal bird, ends surrending to its mitical magic and freedom.
Will the quetzal survive due to habitat destruction? In FEATHERED SERPENT ( Serpiente Emplumada), international archaeologists, historians, businessman, Mayan priest, Forest Rangers, musicians and biologists share with the viewer their point of view and knowledge about the mysticism and sacred meaning of the greatest Deity of the Olmeca, Maya and Mexica cultures. All of them coming to the consensus that: we humans are destroying planet earth and is urgent a message of awarness. We want to take this message with free cinema to rural areas and schools in México and Guatemala.
In this remarkable documentary, Salma Hayak, Enrique Beltranena and Fher Olvera observe the growing environmental crisis in the Cloud Forests of Central America, and ask, "Will the Quetzal be able to survive habitat destruction?"Through the centuries the Quetzal has survived, from its mythological symbolism in the pantheon of the Maya and Mexica, to today where it lives as a fragile species in the Cloud Forests of Mesoamerica and Central America.Humankind is putting the Quetzal's habitat in Guatamala at risk. Commerce, in the form of logging, is seriously disrupting ecological corridors that are of vital importance to the Quetzal's survival, and let's not forget that the Quetzal has seen other species disappear from these forests.SERPIENTE EMPLUMADA brings together internationally renowned archaeologists, historians, musicians and biologists to share their knowledge and their points of view about environmentalism, mysticism and the sacred meanings of the greatest Deity of the Olmeca, Maya and Mexica cultures: Quetzalcoatl.SERPIENTE EMPLUMADA exposes the great beauty of the region which is habitat to the Quetzal and it allows us, and future generations, to understand the tremendous need to preserve the Cloud Forests of Central America for human kind.
"Serpiente Emplumada" took three years to produce. Ricky Lopez Bruni is an amazing adventurer and a world famous photographer. Ricky López Bruni, was born in New York and lived his childhood in Guatemala and Mexico, He has dedicated 30 years of his life documenting and studying this mythical bird of mythology of Mesoamerican cultures in the cloud forests of Chiapas, Guatemala and Costa Rica.
His photography has been exhibited in Shanghai - China, San José - Costa Rica, Sevilla and Madrid in Spain, Sundance, Atlanta and Washington D.C. in United States, Museo Regional de Antropología de Yucatán, Guatemala International Airport, National Palace of Guatemala, Tapachula and CDMX in Mexico, Lisbon - Portugal, and in important museums like the Musee Quai Branly and Louvre in Paris, France.
