Fire on the Amazon

Fire on the Amazon is a 1993 American-Peruvian adventure drama film directed by Luis Llosa and starring Craig Sheffer and Sandra Bullock.

In Bolivia's Amazon basin, corporate cattle ranches are replacing the rain forest.

When Santos, the charismatic leader of the union of rubber tappers, forges an alliance with natives to protest deforestation, he is assassinated.

R.J. O'Brien, a US photo-journalist who has no skills as an investigator, thinks the police have framed and murdered an innocent native as the assassin.

Bullock was concerned that the canoe she was riding could have possibly tipped over and dumped her in dangerous waters.