Brazilian Indigenous Filmmaking
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This campaign will directly support Brazilian indigenous filmmaking. Funds will help support the visit of indigenous filmmaker Wewito Ashaninka to Hunter College - CUNY, where he will be presenting his film Shomõtsi. See the event here.
Funds raised will also be used to buy equipments such as cameras, microphones, and hard drives that will be sent directly to two different indigenous communities in Brazil: the Ashaninka and the Guarani Kayowa.
Brazil's current extreme-right government represents an unprecedented threat to indigenous populations across the country, as they are already suffering violent attacks. President-elect compared indigenous people to animals, and promised to end demarcation of new indigenous lands, reduce the power of environmental agencies and free up mining and commercial farming on indigenous reserves and in the Amazon. In Brazil a lot of groups still do not have their land demarcated. He recently transferred responsibility for certifying indigenous territories as protected lands to the ministry of agriculture, a ministry that historically serves the interests of industries that want greater access to protected lands.
Indigenous leaders are being criminalized and killed systematically. The president's speech justifies illegal actions by saying that environmental norms are unnecessary, that they are something that gets in the way of the industrial development. The threats represented by this administration to both indigenous populations and the environment will have massive global impact.
Cinema has been an important tool of resistance among indigenous populations in Brazil and is now a well-established field. Indigenous films are traditionally conceived and produced by natives themselves in order to echo their voices and their telling of their own culture, their ancestral connection to their land, and the conflictual and even sometimes deadly challenges they face in preserving their ways of life and the forest.
Such films have been serving as powerful tools for self-empowerment and resistance -- as they represent these populations' own narratives based on expression of their their collective identity -- and its continuity regarding the challenges to come.
Your contribution is crucial to allow indigenous peoples to have their voices heard.
Any amount will have an immense impact, join us!
Funds raised will also be used to buy equipments such as cameras, microphones, and hard drives that will be sent directly to two different indigenous communities in Brazil: the Ashaninka and the Guarani Kayowa.
Brazil's current extreme-right government represents an unprecedented threat to indigenous populations across the country, as they are already suffering violent attacks. President-elect compared indigenous people to animals, and promised to end demarcation of new indigenous lands, reduce the power of environmental agencies and free up mining and commercial farming on indigenous reserves and in the Amazon. In Brazil a lot of groups still do not have their land demarcated. He recently transferred responsibility for certifying indigenous territories as protected lands to the ministry of agriculture, a ministry that historically serves the interests of industries that want greater access to protected lands.
Indigenous leaders are being criminalized and killed systematically. The president's speech justifies illegal actions by saying that environmental norms are unnecessary, that they are something that gets in the way of the industrial development. The threats represented by this administration to both indigenous populations and the environment will have massive global impact.
Cinema has been an important tool of resistance among indigenous populations in Brazil and is now a well-established field. Indigenous films are traditionally conceived and produced by natives themselves in order to echo their voices and their telling of their own culture, their ancestral connection to their land, and the conflictual and even sometimes deadly challenges they face in preserving their ways of life and the forest.
Such films have been serving as powerful tools for self-empowerment and resistance -- as they represent these populations' own narratives based on expression of their their collective identity -- and its continuity regarding the challenges to come.
Your contribution is crucial to allow indigenous peoples to have their voices heard.
Any amount will have an immense impact, join us!
Fundraising team (2)
Fernanda Roth Faya
Organizer
Sunnyside, NY
Julia Miras
Team member
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