| Amazon | |
| Director: | Kieth Merrill |
| Producer: | Kieth Merrill Isaac Palmer Jonathan Stern |
| Narrator: | Linda Hunt |
| Music: | Alan Williams[1] |
| Cinematography: | Mike Hoover |
| Editing: | Stephen L. Johnson |
| Distributor: | MacGillivray Freeman Films |
| Runtime: | 38 minutes [2] |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Amazon is a 1997 American short documentary film directed by Kieth Merrill. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.[3]
The film features ethnobiologist Mark Plotkin, who discusses the role of rainforest conservation and the benefits of investigating it further in the interest of medical and scientific knowledge.[4] [5]