Film and video · OTCA
The Amazon Basin Project, animated for OTCA
An animation presenting OTCA's Amazon Basin Project, with 19 interventions in eight countries to protect water and benefit more than 7.8 million people.
- Client
- OTCA
- Year
- 2021 to 2024
- Territory
- Amazon Basin in OTCA's eight member countries
- Format
- Illustrated animation in Spanish, with English subtitles and a Portuguese version
- Funding
- Amazon Basin Project, implemented with UNEP and GEF
The challenge
The Amazon Basin Project is the next step in OTCA's work with the eight Amazonian countries: putting into practice the Strategic Action Program, approved after an assessment that identified nine transboundary problems, from river pollution to glacier loss. It was a multi-layered project, covering water governance, source-to-sea integrated management and gender equality, and it had to be explained in plain language to civil servants and officials in eight countries.
The film
What we delivered
- Counter-brief
- Narration script
- Illustrated storyboard
- Animation
- Narration, translation and subtitles
- Portuguese version, in 2024
What we did
Working from the content provided by OTCA, we wrote a direct script that runs from the 1978 treaty to concrete actions in each country.
We created an illustrated storyboard, reviewed with the OTCA team over several rounds, and animated the video with Spanish narration and English subtitles. In 2024, we updated the piece and delivered a Portuguese version.
Outcome
In about three minutes, the video presents the 19 planned interventions, such as early warning systems for floods, droughts and fires in border areas and groundwater protection, which are expected to benefit more than 7.8 million people. In 2025, OTCA also hired Forest for the Amazonas Project video lessons.
