Film and video · ECOSS
6th Indigenous Gathering at the Casa Dom Aquino Museum, for ECOSS
A documentary on the 6th Indigenous Gathering at the Casa Dom Aquino Museum in Cuiabá, selected for the Mato Grosso showcase at Cinemato 2014.
- Client
- ECOSS
- Year
- 2013
- Territory
- Cuiabá (MT)
- Format
- Short documentary, 8 minutes
- Funding
- Casa Dom Aquino Prehistory Museum
The challenge
During Indigenous Peoples' Week in 2013, the Casa Dom Aquino Prehistory Museum in Cuiabá held its 6th Indigenous Gathering. The event aims to promote Indigenous culture in Mato Grosso and bring non-Indigenous audiences, especially children, closer to Indigenous communities. The museum wanted to record the gathering on film.
The film
What we delivered
- Documentary of the event
- DVD cover and label
What we did
We followed the event and produced a short documentary of about eight minutes. The program included performances by different peoples, dances and songs, body painting and craft workshops, round tables on the peoples of Mato Grosso and the Marãiwatsédé Indigenous Land, and a showcase of Indigenous films.
The film shows the direct contact between children and Indigenous people, the questions, the cultural performances, the body painting and the political discussions. Direction, script, cinematography and editing by Thiago Foresti. We also created the DVD cover and label.
Outcome
The short was selected for the Mato Grosso Short Film Showcase at the 19th Cinemato, the Cuiabá Film and Video Festival, in February 2014. Of 34 films submitted, 14 were selected for competition, two of them directed by Thiago Foresti.
