Actors as Shamans – A film director meeting a native south American Indian in Brazil’s rain forest.

John Boorman the director of The Esmerald Forest researching for a native south American Indian tribe went to the rain forests of Brazil to meet with Takuma , a famed shaman. Takuma asked Boorman to explain his work and he had to explain to a man that never seen or watched television. Boorman said that he would stop and begin a scene in different time and place as it does in a dream. “You make visions, magic. You are a paje like me.”