Gert-Peter Bruch
Documentary filmmaker and founder of the NGO Planète Amazone, Gert-Peter Bruch has been committed to the preservation of the Amazon and the rights of Indigenous Peoples for more than 35 years. Still in high school at the time, he volunteered alongside Sting and the renowned Chief Raoni Metuktire during their first international tour in 1989, and has since organized or led communications for six international tours of the great defender of the Amazon rainforest.
He is also co-founder, together with Chief Raoni and Indigenous leaders from several continents, of the Alliance of Mother Nature’s Guardians — a movement carrying a manifesto that lays the foundation for a Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. His fight for future generations is also a tribute to his maternal grandfather, an indigenous man of the Sahara, whose village still suffers — more than 60 years later — from the consequences of France’s first atmospheric nuclear test.
Among his numerous audiovisual productions, he directed and produced the documentary film Terra Libre (2021), and in collaboration with Princess Esmeralda of Belgium, the documentary series Protecting the Amazon for the American channel EarthX (2021), and Amazonia, the Heart of Mother Earth (2024). This latest film benefits from exceptional access to his filmed archives and personal documentation, comprising thousands of items collected over decades.
