Name Adrian Cowell Role Filmmaker | Parents Edmund Cowell Siblings Christopher Cowell | |
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Died October 11, 2011, London, United Kingdom Movies and TV shows Banking on Disaster, The Tribe That Hides From Man, In The Ashes Of The Forest – Part 1 Books The decade of destruction, The Tribe that Hides from Man, Decade of Destruction T. S. P. Awards British Academy Television Award for Best Originality | ||
The Heroin Wars, Pt. 1 - The Opium Convoys (Bullfrog Films clip)
Adrian Cowell - The Chico Mendes Story
Adrian Cowell (2 February 1934 – 11 October 2011) was a British filmmaker, born in Tangshan, China. He was best known for producing documentaries about Chico Mendes and deforestation in the Amazon and the opium/heroin trade out of the Shan States, Burma (Myanmar).
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- The Heroin Wars Pt 1 The Opium Convoys Bullfrog Films clip
- Adrian Cowell The Chico Mendes Story
- References
While a student at Cambridge, Cowell planned (but was unable to take part in) the 1954 Oxford and Cambridge Trans-Africa Expedition, and took part in the 1955-6 Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition to Singapore and the 1957-8 Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to South America. It was on the latter expedition team that Cowell met the Villas-Bôas brothers and left the Oxford and Cambridge Expedition to join them on the Centro Geographico Expedition to find the geographical centre of Brazil. This was the beginning of his connection with South America and, in particular, Brazil.
He was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Cherry Kearton Medal and Award in 1985. In his obituary in The Guardian, Anthony Hayward wrote that he was "one of the most successful" documentary makers of his generation. His documentaries about the rain forest brought the subject significant political attention.