05/22/2026
From the Trew Archives:
Glen Trew and cart in the jungles of southern Mexico in the spring of 1994, on location for The Burning Season (1994), directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Raúl Juliá 🎬
Gear: Nagra IV-S recorder, Cooper 106 mixer, Vega wireless system, espresso machine ☕
Glen likes to say that always having the espresso machine on hand was one of the secrets to his great working relationship with Frankenheimer.
We're not joking when we say we know what it's like out there.
The Burning Season is a powerful HBO Pictures film about the Brazilian activist Chico Mendes, and is notably Juliá's final performance, for which he was posthumously awarded both a Golden Globe and an Emmy. The film won numerous other awards, including the Emmy for Best Director of a Miniseries or Special.