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POOL OF PROJECTS

WITH THE FIRST NATIONS FROM WITH THE FIRST NATIONS FROM BRAZIL AND LATIN AMERICA BRAZIL AND LATIN AMERICA

EARTHPRESERVATION

AGROFORESTRY

FOODSOVEREIGNTY

FORESTMEDICINES

MEDIADEVELOPMENT CULTURE

INDIGENOUSCINEMA

ANCESTRALITY

BIODIVERSITY TRADITION

RIGHTS IDENTITY

PROJECTS ON GOING NOW NEEDING

FUND

FIRST NATIONS SERIES : LIVING LIBRARIES

ENDANGERED ELDERS

All Brazil and Latin America

Status : In pre-production - Filming in November/2023-February/2024

Film and keep the knowledge of our last elders alive in Brazil, guardians that represents and lives a life in connection and harmony with nature.

1st Season - 13 episodes : Amazon with the Pano language family roots.

After decades of open genocide in Brazil, after the last government and pandemic, the indigenous elders started to reach the western world in order to register their kwisdom of orality, thus being able to immortalise their living libraries and knowledge that brings us closer to our humanity.

COCA LEAF & THE Q'EROS NATION

Peruvian Andes

Status : Pre-production / Filming in March 2024

BASILIO SANCHEZ

Basilio is a community researcher of andine and ancestral traditions, a young healer and learning filmmaker who is engaging to keep endangered ancestral wisdom related to the sacred way to process their medicine and foods.

COMMUNITY PROJECT + FEATURE FILM

Coca is the most sacred plant of the Andes and so misunderstood, included by its own people as the rituals are not performed anymore. In this documentary research we follow Taita Fortunato, 84 years old, the last elder known that still has the knowledge of the coca ritual "Kuka Suary", to ritualize, to harvest, prepare and pray the coca leaf, a plant that bring the spiritual guidance by all actions involved. It's key to film the knowledge still alive from their ancestrals which gives the new generation orientation.

YAWANAWA WOMEN

Northwestern Amazon

Status : Pilot done, now in pre-production for an action in December/2023

COLLECTIVE WITH PANÃ YAWANAWA AS AMBASSADOR

Panã is mother of two children and a nurse, since young age at path of spirituality. Daughter of the recognized Yawanawa general chief, Biracy Nixiwaka, she is an activist and also a leadership of the woman.

Empowerment of indigenous women through education and menstrual sustainability starting with a stage of awareness and knowledge production with further development of empowering indigenous women in the villages through professionalisation and entrepreneurship through sustainable menstrual fashion.

MEDIA

WORKSHOPS

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Awaytoconnectdifferentetniestolearnandproducetogether. Awaytoenvolvetheyoungsterstoreconnecttotheirculture troughonlinemedia.

MEDIA PRODUCTION WORKSHOPS

FOR NATIVE PEOPLE PROGRAMME

Brazil - Trainning located in Bahia

Status : Pre-production phase / Looking for funds 1st workshop July/2024

TRAIN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER BRAZIL IN A NATURAL ENVIRONMENT TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN MEDIA

IMMERSIVE TRAINNING

A natural location that offers a home feeling to the indigenous people, also with houses built in indigenous way. At the same time, a well equipped house full of technology and proper equipments with great professionals available, including indigenous experts.

GOALS

TRAIN

PRODUCE DISTRIBUTE

GENERATE INCOME

Produce album recording, film making, video clip, online classes

Registering indigenous culture

On going indigenous projects

Media training

Digital skills trainning

SELECTION PROCESS FOR 21 PEOPLE FROM 7 VILLAGES - 3

INDIGENOUS PER VILLAGE. THE PROGRAMME WOULD BE OPEN 2 TIMES AN YEAR FOR 14 DAYS EACH.

THE ORIGINS OF AYAHUASCA

South America : Brazil, Peru and Colombia FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

Status : Pre-production phase > research + pilot w/ Daiara Tukano

ETNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH + PUBLICATION + DOCU SERIES

SERIES - 13 EPISODES / 1ST SEASON

PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST AND ACTIVIST DAIARA TUKANO

A journey to meet the ayahuasca guardians from different indigenous people getting to know their sacred visions, searching the origin and ancient use of this sacred medicine - and where are we going with it.

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OVERALL OF PROJECTS

FILM + CULTURE RESCUE

THE ORIGINS OF AYAHUASCA

FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

South America : Brazil, Peru and Colombia

Forest Medicine, where it came from and where it's going.

BORUM-KREN

East Brazil

Once extinct, now rediscovered. Who are the Borum-Kren?

YAWALAPITI

Xingu Park / West-Central Brazil

Guard the knowledge of the last pajé in Xingu Park that knows several plants.

YE’PÂ-MASA

Northwestern Amazon

Ancestral knowledge rescued by Alvaro Tukano chief and his brother Bu'u the last Jaguar Shaman, transforming the life of the young generation.

AGROFORESTRY PROJECTS

MAXAKALI + GUARANI

Southeast Brazil

MBYA

Alive school together with agroforestry learning/making.

GUARANI MBYA

Southwestern Brazil

Rescuing species and the young generation by food production.

WOMEN POWER

YAWANAWA

Amazon / Northwestern Brazil

Health - Menstrual education awareness / Local business fomentation with menstrual pads.

HUNI KUIN

Amazon / Northwestern Amazon

Film and Audio recording by the Huni Kuin young generation.

MEDIA PRODUCTION WORKSHOPS

FOR NATIVE PEOPLE

Brazil - Trainning located in Bahia

Media workshop at a fully equipped place as an art residency for indigenous.

AMARY

West-Central Brazil - Parque Xingu

NOKE KUIN

Amazon / Northwestern Amazon

Film workshop and making about the rediscovery of this native people roots. Film workshop and making about the rediscovery of this native people roots.

WHO ARE WE

We are a group of people that individually has been tracing a path working with First Nations at least for more than 5 years now, some for 10 years. We have many expertises and knowledge in different areas, and specially to work with native and traditional peoples from Brazil a very sensitive theme.

Each project has its own team and coordinations with a general coordination. We always count on at least a local producer who are already in studying and living with the native people we are working with.

The travelling crew is small so we can delve into the subject and the native people we are working with more easily. We all speak English/Portuguese/Spanish.

We are committed to the cause of serving and learning from our ancestral, keeping their knowledge with the occidental tools, offering a hand to integrate the community by learning how to use them so they are able to create their own content with their own views and understanding.

WHO ARE WE

LARA JACOSKI

Filmmaker / Coordinator

PATRICK BELEM

Filmmaker / Musician / Sound record

FILIPE RIBEIRO

LUANA MARIA

Antropologists

RODRIGO SOARES

Filmmaker / Seeds guardian and agroflorestor

ERIKA ASSIS

Ayahuasca Psycology doctor study

FABI VERISSIMO

Producer / Sound record

YUPURI

Indigenous filmmaker (Yepa Masa people)

THAÍS DINIZ

Human Rights Lawyer

AMANDA GOES

Producer - Indigenous support

ELISA BUCCOLINI

Production Manager

ALEX MORENO

Executive Producer

KELLEN DIAS

TEREZA RADDHA

Filmmaker / Photographer

THE FUTURE IS ANCESTRAL