A Bicycle Journey Across Brazil to Find a Vanishing Savanna
In “Here There Was Cerrado” — the Second-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest — Natascha Otoya shows how industrial farms are plowing up the Brazilian savanna, changing the flow of water, and skewing human memory of the landscape.
Summary
Natascha Otoya’s film “Here There Was Cerrado,” which won second place in the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest, highlights the detrimental impact of industrial farming on Brazil’s savanna. The documentary illustrates how these farming practices are disrupting water flow and altering human perceptions of the landscape, contributing to the ecological degradation of the region.
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