Biography

Ereira worked at the BBC

BBC

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 on television and radio since 1965 contributing documentaries to the Timewatch

Timewatch

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 strand amongst others.

He has been awarded the Japan Prize

Japan Prize

is awarded to people from all parts of the world whose "original and outstanding achievements in science and technology are recognized as having advanced the frontiers of knowledge and served the cause of peace and prosperity for mankind."- Explanation :...

 for his 1978 documentary on the Battle of the Somme, and the Royal Television Society

Royal Television Society

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 Best Documentary Series award for his 1988 documentary on the Armada

Spanish Armada

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In his books The Heart of the World (1990

1990 in literature

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) and The Elder Brothers (1992

1992 in literature

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), he documented his visits to the Kogi

Koguis

The Kogi or Cogui or Kaggabba, translated "jaguar" in the Kogi language are a Native American ethnic group that lives in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. They are one of the few surviving Pre-Columbian civilizations of South America...

 people of Colombia, an indigenous ('Indian') ethnic group which survived attempts by the Spanish conquerors to destroy them by retreating high up in the mountainous area of the Sierra Nevada where they live. Ereira regards the Kogi as unique amongst indigenous peoples in the Americas in that they have managed to retain their traditional culture almost entirely intact. Since the 1980s, the Kogi have warned, on the basis of their observation of ecological changes in the Sierra Nevada, that the world is facing an ecological catastrophe. They asked Ereira to make his films about them in order to warn the rest of the world (and particularly the West) that it needs to radically change its way of living, and its exploitative attitude to the natural world, if it is to avert this catastrophe.

Ereira collaborated with Terry Jones

Terry Jones

Terence Graham Parry Jones is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator, and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team....

 on the documentary series Crusades

Crusades (BBC TV series)

Crusades was a 1995 historical documentary series presented by former Monty Python member Terry Jones. It looked at the crusades and included elements of black comedy.-1...

(1995), Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

Terry Jones' Medieval Lives

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(2004) and Terry Jones' Barbarians

Terry Jones' Barbarians

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(2006), with whom he also co-authored the respective companion books.

In 2004 he also presented, wrote and produced a 6-part documentary series on the kings and queens of England for UKTV History

UKTV History

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Filmography

• 1988 Armada producer, writer & narrator
• 1995 Crusades
  Crusades (BBC TV series)
  Crusades was a 1995 historical documentary series presented by former Monty Python member Terry Jones. It looked at the crusades and included elements of black comedy.-1...
  
  producer, director & writer
• 2004 Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
  Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
  Terry Jones' Medieval Lives is a 2004 Emmy award nominated television documentary series produced for the BBC. Written and hosted by Terry Jones, each half-hour episode examines a particular Medieval personality, with the intent of separating myth from reality.The episode The Peasant was nominated...
  
  associate producer & writer
• 2004 Kings and Queens of England producer, writer & presenter
• 2006 Terry Jones' Barbarians
  Terry Jones' Barbarians
  Terry Jones' Barbarians is a 4-part TV documentary series first broadcast on BBC 2 in 2006. It was written and presented by Terry Jones, and it challenges the received Roman and Roman Catholic notion of the barbarian....
  
  producer & writer

External links

• http://www.taironatrust.org Information about his work in South America