Sound rich, part documentary, part personal narrative, this piece follows producer Carla Seidl to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador where she meets a surfer named Fredy Andi who tells her he has been a cannibal. The two dance and fall in love, and several years later, Seidl returns to the islands to see if his amazing life story (being born into an uncontacted and infamously savage tribe in the Amazon jungle, then becoming a surfer) and their connection are for real. The piece goes from upbeat and amusing to sad as Seidl reflects on her experiences with Fredy and concludes that his world has become more of a theme park than a home. The piece includes real audio "footage" from Seidl's time on the Galapagos Islands, where she taught English to middle and pre-school students, national park service employees and a women's group as a volunteer with the program WorldTeach in 2001 and then returned in 2005.

Carla's experiences with Fredy Andi are the subject of her anthropological memoir, The Sophisticated Savage, which will be available in late May/June 2009 from Inner Hearth Books. See www.thesophisticatedsavage.info or www.carlaseidl.com for more info.

Sound rich, part documentary, part personal narrative, this piece follows producer Carla Seidl to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador where she meets a surfer named Fredy Andi who tells her he has been a cannibal. The two dance and fall in love, and several years later, Seidl returns to the islands to see if his amazing life story (being born into an uncontacted and infamously savage tribe in the Amazon jungle, then becoming a surfer) and their connection are for real. The piece goes from upbeat and amusing to sad as Seidl reflects on her experiences with Fredy and concludes that his world has become more of a theme park than a home. The piece includes real audio "footage" from Seidl's time on the Galapagos Islands, where she taught English to middle and pre-school students, national park service employees and a women's group as a volunteer with the program WorldTeach in 2001 and then returned in 2005.

Carla's experiences with Fredy Andi are the subject of her anthropological memoir, The Sophisticated Savage, which will be available in late May/June 2009 from Inner Hearth Books. See www.thesophisticatedsavage.info or www.carlaseidl.com for more info.