The Film

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Photo by ©Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri of Puwe Puyanawa on the River Moa @SRI at the Science Summit at the United Nations General Assembly: Digital Democracy for Climate Action

The Regeneration Generation™
A film by Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri

A cinematic journey exploring how Indigenous knowledge, science, and new economic systems may reshape humanity’s relationship with Earth.

The planet remembers. Humanity must learn again.

From the Amazon rainforest to the centers of global decision-making, forest protectors carry ancestral knowledge into the systems shaping humanity’s relationship with the living Earth.

A cinematic documentary and global movement at the intersection of culture, science, and the future of life on Earth.

A Story That Moves Between Worlds

The forest is not a backdrop.
It is a portal.

A place where memory lives.
Where the future can still be felt before it arrives.

From the Amazon rainforest to the centers of global decision-making, forest protectors carry ancestral knowledge into the systems shaping humanity’s relationship with the living Earth.

What begins in the forest becomes something far larger:

A journey across worlds—
between ceremony and science,
between Indigenous knowledge and global power,
between collapse and the possibility of renewal.

Photo by ©Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri of the Puyanawa People on the River Moa @SRI

Synopsis

Deep in the Amazon, the Puyanawa people—guardians of one of the most vital ecosystems on Earth—stand at the frontlines of ecological breakdown and cultural renewal.

At the center of the film is Txukukaytxi, a young Indigenous leader, and her father Puwe Puyanawa, a spiritual guardian and botanist. Together, they carry forward a lineage of knowledge that has sustained life in balance with the forest for generations.

As ecological tipping points approach, their journey expands beyond the forest.

From remote territories to global stages—including the XPRIZE Rainforest, the Science Summit at the United Nations General Assembly, COP, and the World Economic Forum at Davos—they enter the spaces where the future of ecosystems, economies, and societies is being decided.

The film unfolds as a passage between worlds:

Ancient and future.
Human and more-than-human.
Memory and possibility.

Through this journey, a new question emerges:

Not how to save the planet—
but how to remember how to live within it.

Why This Film, Why Now

We are living through a convergence of crises—ecological, economic, social, and psychological.

The Amazon is approaching irreversible tipping points.
The systems shaping global decision-making remain disconnected from the living systems they depend on.

And yet, across the world, another intelligence persists.

Indigenous knowledge systems—refined over millennia—offer models of reciprocity, resilience, and continuity.

The Regeneration Generation brings these ways of knowing into dialogue with science, finance, culture, and governance—revealing not a single solution, but a shift in how humanity understands value, relationship, and future.

This is not a film about collapse.

It is a film about what becomes possible when humanity remembers.

(Below, with Indrani) Ailton Krenak is a globally recognized Indigenous philosopher and environmental voice. A member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, his work stands among the defining ethical contributions of our era.

Participants

The film brings together an extraordinary constellation of voices across generations, disciplines, and cultures.

Indigenous leaders and knowledge holders
Txukukaytxi Puyanawa · Puwe Puyanawa · Ailton Krenak · leaders of the Amazon and beyond

Science and global systems leadership
Carlos Nobre · Christiana Figueres · Ralph Chami

Culture, music, and storytelling
Eugene Brave Rock · Ricky Kej · global artists and collaborators

Business and transformation
Henk Rogers · leaders shaping the future of energy, technology, and regenerative economies

Together, they form a living dialogue—
where ancestral intelligence meets the systems shaping the modern world.

Cinematic Vision

The Regeneration Generation is conceived as a cinematic experience that moves beyond traditional documentary form. Blending vérité footage with immersive visual language, the film evokes both the beauty of the living Earth and the dissonance of a world out of balance.

There is a subtle presence throughout the film—a returning intelligence, an observing consciousness, a memory of another way of being. Not as metaphor, but as feeling. A perspective that sees humanity from the outside—and asks what we have forgotten. The result is a film that is at once intimate and planetary. Grounded and visionary. Human and beyond.

Filmmakers

Directed by Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri—filmmaker, systems anthropologist, and convener of the Science Summit at the United Nations—whose work bridges culture, ecology, and global systems.

Produced by GK Reid, creative director and producer whose work spans film, global campaigns, and cultural movements, including collaborations with David Bowie and award-winning impact storytelling reaching billions worldwide.

Executive Producers include:Barnet Bain (Academy Award-winning What Dreams May Come)Tom DeSanto (X-Men, Transformers)Steve Perry (True Romance, Lethal Weapon)

Their collective work has received multiple Academy Awards, Cannes Lions, and international recognition.InvitationThe Regeneration Generation is more than a film.It is a convergence of culture, science, and story at a moment of civilizational transition.

We are collaborating with:

Philanthropic leaders
Cultural icons
Global brands
Institutions shaping the futureto bring this story to life at scale.

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