The Garden of Evil
2021 Film
- Documentary
On 5 December 2001, New Zealand sports icon Sir Peter Blake was shot dead on his boat, Seamaster, on Brazil’s Amazon River. Twenty years later, New Zealand director Larry Keating investigated who was really behind the ominous order to kill Blake — as well as many other attacks on conservationists, including the near-fatal stabbing of Kiwi eco-warrior Pete Bethune. Joined by renowned Irish investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre, the crew travels to Brazil to try to uncover what happened. The Garden of Evil won Jacob Bryant the Best New Zealand Cinematography Award at the 2021 Doc Edge Film Festival.
Key Cast & Crew
DM
Donal MacIntyre
Subject
LCR
Leo Clark Ribeiro
Editor
Related images
Evening in the Northern Amazon on the Jauaperi River. The shot was taken during a two day trip on a river boat to Xixuau.
Sir Peter Blake aboard Seamaster in the Amazon, six weeks before the boat was attacked in December 2001.
The poster for documentary The Garden of Evil.
The filmmakers capture an early morning police raid in Macapa, near where Sir Peter Blake was killed in 2001. Around 50 people were arrested.
