When Gabe Polsky pitched his latest documentary, “The Man Who Saves the World?” to the major streamers, they weren’t interested.
“I made a sizzle and took it to all the usual suspects,” Polsky says. “For them, it felt like it was just too far out.”
Revolving around Patrick McCollum, a 75-year-old eccentric peace activist who believes he has been chosen by an ancient prophecy to help unite the Indigenous tribes of South America to save the Amazon and the planet from environmental ruin, the 85-minute film is undeniably surreal. Even Polsky was initially skeptical of McCollum, a jack-of-all-trades ordained chaplain who, prior to facilitating peace in countries around
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