Photographer Marcos Prados’ portraits of Brazil’s charcoal people inspired Academy Award-winning director Nigel Noble to focus on the plight of several migrant workers and their families. Their lives are led on the front lines of the massive ecological destruction of Brazilian forests. Their meagre existence comes from making the ovens and stoking them with the wood to make charcoal that fuels the demand of the multinational pig iron and steel industries. Beautifully shot, this evocative portrait stands testimony to the devastation of the environment and a dislocated people.