This video tells us a little bit of the project Training Workshops Audiovisual and Multimídia for Indigenous Women conducted by the Institute Catitu.The video features images and testimonials produced by women of the people Ikpeng, Kawaiwete, Kamaiura, Kraho, Maxakali and Algonkin of the during workshops held in the Xingu Indigenous Land between 2011 and 2013.
Catitu contributes to the strengthening of indigenous cultures and the defense of their rights through the use new technologies, providing them with tools to express, impart and share their knowledge from their own worldview.
Catitu’s actions are geared to: encouraging indigenous empowerment, especially of indigenous women through audiovisual and multimedia training workshops; promoting the diffusion of new forms of indigenous self-representation through the production of movies and the creation of digital documentation centers which contain the cultural wealth of the communities; encouraging the interethnic dialogue to enhance the cooperation and the sharing of experiences through the promotion of exchanges between traditional people.
Direction: Mari Corrêa and Raquel Diniz
Duration: 17 minutes
Versions: portuguese and english
Contact: institutocatitu.org.br
The goal of Instituto Catitu is to contribute to the cultural strenghtening of indigenous peoples by turning to new technologies as dynamic instruments of self-representation and production of knowledges.
