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AWÁ PEOPLE
Direction: Mariana Fagundes
Project Status: Completed
Genre: Multimedia project and documentary series | 5 episodes x 25 minutes | 2015
Production: Noctua, Instituto Social e Cultural Lumiar, Luba Filmes
Synopsis
Despite the unambiguous clarity of our Federal Constitution, there are many difficulties that native Brazilians face today in order to guarantee their right to land. This is the theme of the Vulnerability of Contemporary Indigenous Communities in Brazil project, financed by the Ministry of Justice's Fund for the Defense of Diffuse Rights, which resulted in the documentary series Gente Awá (Awá People). To document and discuss the indigenous struggle for land in contemporary Brazil, the project team traveled 29,000 kilometers, interviewing more than 40 people and visiting seven indigenous communities. The series makes a parallel between two cases: the Awá-Guajá, from Maranhão, and the Guarani-Kaiowá, from Mato Grosso do Sul, ethnic groups that live, respectively, inside and outside legal Amazon. Through conversations with indigenous leaders, thinkers and experts on the subject, the project seeks to show that the challenge of fighting for territory continues to mark indigenous communities in Brazil in the 21st century.
PROJECT HISTORY
Project was approved by the Fund for Diffuse Rights of the Ministry of Justice/Brazil. The first episode was premiered at the International Short Film Festival of Belo Horizonte in 2015 and screened at the Belém Audiovisual Festival, on CineBrasil TV, at the I Forum on Indigenous Rights Violation at University of São Paulo (USP) and at The Suicide Prevention Week at State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). It is currently licensed to Canal Curta and VOD Tamanduá.tv.
