AMAZON WARRIORS | By Sam Potter and Nainoa Langer | Beautiful Destinations

DIRECTOR’S NOTES: Hello, my name is Sam Potter, and I am the host, writer, and director of this series of short films on Beautiful Destinations Youtube channel. For me, our latest film, “Amazon Warriors,” is a project that started when I was a child growing up on the island of Kauai. My brothers and I would go camp in the woods or at the beach with no food or water and play what we called “survivors.” We’d imagine we were far far away from civilization, from the comfort of our beds and the safety of our parents. We would build shelters, find water, set traps (that never worked), hunt, and gather fruits to eat. Sometimes if we found a place that we really liked, we’d even try to cultivate the land and further build on the dream of a life lived in the natural world. However, this was just a game. Food, shelter, tv, mom, and dad were never too far away, but the Amazon Rainforest, in our eyes, was where this dream was a reality. A place where people somehow lucked into skipping out on this whole modern world