Film and video · Fundo Socioambiental CASA
Strengthening Indigenous land rights in the Amazon, for Fundo CASA
A film that brings together Indigenous organizations supported by Fundo CASA to protect their territories, enabling the exchange of experiences the pandemic prevented.
- Client
- Fundo Socioambiental CASA
- Year
- 2022 to 2023
- Territory
- Legal Amazon: Indigenous lands in the Northern Pará, Madeira-Purus, Xingu, Rio Negro and Rondônia blocs
- Format
- Institutional film with testimonials, drone footage and animated maps
- Funding
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, under the Andes Amazon Initiative
The challenge
With support from the Moore Foundation, Fundo CASA funded projects by dozens of Indigenous organizations to protect their territories in the Amazon. The idea was to bring these organizations together at an in-person gathering to exchange experiences, but the pandemic made it impossible. The film had to fill that role: let each organization see itself and hear the others, proud of what it had done, and at the same time report back to the funder.
The film
What we delivered
- Counter-brief
- Script with two narrators
- Narration
- Illustrations and animated maps of the Indigenous lands
- Editing and finishing
What we did
We started from interviews recorded at the Acampamento Terra Livre, the national Indigenous mobilization in Brasília, and from written testimonies in the project reports, which brought more diversity. We built a script with two narrators: one introduces the forest peoples, and the other gives voice to the associations' testimonies.
We combined photos, videos and drone footage sent by the communities with illustrations and animated maps of the supported Indigenous lands. Forest's recommendation was to leave the introduction of Fundo CASA for the end, so that the grantees would take the lead from the very first minute.
“Territorial protection is a kind of care that doesn't start today; it has been part of our way of life for thousands of years.”
Outcome
The film premiered on Fundo CASA's YouTube channel in March 2023.
