Film and video · Fundo Socioambiental CASA
Fundo CASA video series: income, energy and territory
Six videos for Fundo CASA show, in the communities' own voices, how small grants generate income, clean energy and resilience on the ground.
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- Client
- Fundo Socioambiental CASA
- Year
- 2016 to 2018
- Territory
- Communities in Ceará, Paraíba, Minas Gerais, Pará, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, highlighting Amontada (CE) and Gurupá (PA)
- Format
- Six short documentaries, with English-subtitled versions
- Funding
- Fundo CASA, in partnership with Fundo Socioambiental CAIXA
The challenge
Fundo CASA has supported more than 1,300 projects in 11 South American countries, but funders rarely see in images what their resources do on the ground. The organization needed to present results in a human and positive way and show that small investments go a long way.
The film
What we delivered
- Three thematic videos in 2017: income generation, solar energy and sustainability in the city
- One video on Amazon communities facing large infrastructure projects
- Two films in 2018, with interviews and rotoscope animation: Sabiaguaba (CE) and Gurupá (PA)
- English-subtitled versions
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What we did
In 2017, we started from footage recorded by the fund itself, with interviews, boat trips and assemblies, and organized the material into three themes: income generation, renewable energy and cities. Each theme got a script with communities and interviewees and became a documentary with lettering and maps. The stories include the cassava flour mill in Amontada (CE), the solar bakery in Vale dos Oliveiras (PB), açaí processing in Gurupá (PA) and the bicycle as transport in Recife (PE). A fourth video addressed Amazon communities facing large infrastructure projects.
In 2018, we went back to two of these stories to tell them in more depth. In Caetanos de Cima, in the Sabiaguaba land reform settlement (CE), a grant of 30,000 reais became a flour mill, collective income and community tourism. In Gurupá (PA), solar panels in the Itatupã-Baquiá Sustainable Development Reserve made it possible to process and store açaí pulp and sell it to schools. The films mix interviews and rotoscope animation.
“If you stand alone it's hard. You have to stick together, all the time. It's a 30,000 reais grant, but for us it was a resource worth a great deal.”
Outcome
The films circulate in Portuguese and English on Fundo CASA's and Forest's channels. One figure from the videos themselves: after the initiative in Gurupá, 13 families in the region applied for solar energy financing through Pronaf Eco, a federal family farming credit line.
