Amazon natives turn film stars in Colombia Oscar hope

Nilbio Torres had never been to the cinema before and had never heard of the Oscars, until he acted in a film that got nominated for one. The 30-year-old father of four from the Amazon jungle is one of the indigenous Colombian stars of "Embrace of the Serpent," up for the Best Foreign Language Film award at the Oscars on February 28. The third film by Colombian director Ciro Guerra, it is based on the true story of an expedition into the Amazon in the early 20th century by a German ethnologist and a US biologist.

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