KEEP THE RIVER
ON YOUR RIGHT:
A MODERN CANNIBAL TALE

Year: 2000
USA: IFC Films
Cast: Tobias Schneebaum, Norman Mailer
Directors: David Shapiro, Laurie Shapiro
Country: USA
USA: 90 mins
USA Rated: R for depiction of mature thematic material
USA Release Date: 20 April 2001 (Limited Release)
USA Release Date: 16 March 2001 (Limited Release - New York)

Synopsis

The movie documents the story of 78 year old Tobias Schneebaum. A shy, gay, Jewish New Yorker, he was an artist and art historian giving lectures on primitive art and cultures but who also explored the Peruvian and Indonesian jungles to join headhunters and cannibals, and become adopted into their tribe, leading their way of life. KEEP THE RIVER ON YOUR RIGHT: A MODERN CANNIBAL TALE follows Tobias' life across the decades and continents, including the wide variety of people he met along the way in addition to his relatives and friends.