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Have You Ever Seen a River Stop? Panel Discussion

Brazil Footprint 0.0

13 Jul 2021
47 min watch

A conversation with some of the filmmakers and activists featured in the Have You Ever Seen a River Stop? film programme.

Chaired by ethnology curator Glenn Shepard, this panel discussion features Yawar (Equilíbrio) and MAB (Movement of People Affected by Dams).  The group will discuss the impact of industrial modernisation on Brazil's population, in particular those from indigenous communities. 

Note: Portions of this talk are in Portuguese but are translated by the host.

Brazil Footprint 0.0 is a week-long online festival exploring Brazil's specific perspective on the global mobilisation against climate inequalities, in the context of the UN’s upcoming COP26 conference. Curated by Francesca Laura Cavallo for the Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies at the University of Kent in partnership with the Barbican Centre.

Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle is exhibited in The Curve until Sunday 29 August.

Speakers

Olinda Muniz Silva Wanderley (1989), from the Tupinambá and Pataxó Hãhãhãe peoples, is a journalist, filmmaker and activist. She writes and edits the Pau Brasil Notícias blog and is the coordinator of the Kaapora Project, created in 2016 with the scope of environmental education and reforestation in the Pataxó Hãhãhãe area. As a filmmaker, Olinda’s work for the project is dedicated to environmentally recover her people’s lands taking the indigenous cosmovision as a magnifying glass. Following the production of various documentaries, Kaapora – O chamado das matas (The forest calling) is her first fiction/ documentary movie and has been exhibited in ethnomedia circles as well as internationally and in Véxoa, the exhibition curated by Naine Terena. She is also the curator of various Indigenous Film Festivals in Brazil.

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