Let's care for Brazil with sustainable schools, for Seduc MT

In 2013, the 4th National Children and Youth Conference for the Environment mobilized about 17,000 schools in Brazil under the theme "Vamos cuidar do Brasil com escolas sustentáveis" (Let's care for Brazil with sustainable schools). Seduc MT wanted to record the state stage, held in the Pantanal, and turn the gathering into educational material for schools: showing how the conference begins inside each school and what students take back to their communities.

We prepared a topic outline with questions for delegates, teachers and institutions and with the people we wanted to hear: Indigenous, quilombola and rural students.

We filmed two days of activities in the Pantanal, including canoeing, trails, workshops and debates, and built a script in accessible, playful language, woven together by narration and the participants' words. We also created the art direction, with original illustrations, and the covers of the DVDs distributed to schools.

The video brings together the views of administrators, teachers and students on what a sustainable school is, and ends with a poem written and read by an Umutina student about the future of the river and the forest.