Film and video · Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development
Citizen Science for the Amazon: an animation for Mamirauá
An animation showing how fishers, schools and researchers in the Middle Solimões use the Ictio app to understand fish migration in the Amazon Basin.
- Client
- Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development
- Year
- 2019
- Territory
- Middle Solimões (AM), in the Mamirauá and Amanã Reserves
- Format
- Whiteboard-style animation, in Portuguese and Spanish
- Funding
- Citizen Science for the Amazon project, led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
The challenge
The Citizen Science for the Amazon project brought together fishers, communities, schools and researchers around one question: where and when do fish migrate in the Amazon. A technical note had to become a video in which the people involved would recognize themselves. The institute asked for care with one message: the fishers don't help the project, they lead the production of science.
The film
What we delivered
- Work plan
- Narration script and illustrated script
- Animation in Portuguese and Spanish
What we did
We produced a whiteboard-style animation featuring the Ictio app, which records species, weight, date and place of each catch and works offline. The visual concept was dots connecting into a network that grows until it forms the Amazon Basin, like a puzzle of fishing territories. Photos of the participants were given an illustrated treatment.
The work followed stages validated with the institute: work plan, narration script, illustrated script and final edit. The animation was delivered in Portuguese and Spanish, to circulate among partners across the Amazon Basin.
Outcome
The Mamirauá Institute distributed the animation among the project's groups, including via WhatsApp and for offline use in the communities.
