In the battle to protect their territory in the Amazon rainforest, the indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people really only have one significant weapon in their arsenal: media attention. Without it, landgr…
“We are honored to bring the story of the Uru-eu-wau-wau people to the world,” noted Carolyn Bernstein, executive vice president of global scripted content and documentary films for National Geographic, “and help further the conversation and raise awareness around the endangered Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people.”. Other filmmakers have entered the Amazon rainforest before him and applied a sort of colonial gaze upon the situation.
Bitaté Uru Eu Wau Wau drives a drone during a course for indigenous people. Porto Velho, Brazil, September 12, 2021In short order, Bitaté was operating a drone camera, documenting incursions by non-indigenous Brazilians hungry for their land. After the outbreak of Covid, filmmakers feared spreading the coronavirus to the Uru, so they supplied them with camera equipment allowing the Uru to do filming themselves.
“They really pushed us,” Pritz remembers, “and said, ‘Look, if you want to understand this story in a different way or shed some light on the situation more generally, talk to people on the other side who are the ones invading us.’”“They see themselves as the heroes of this story. They are the virtuous pioneers that are creating something out of nothing, in their minds,” he observes. “Obviously, the rainforest is not nothing and it’s home to people and animals and all sorts of things.
“There’s no law enforcement there,” Uchida says. “In one of the scenes of the film Neidinha and activists go to the guy who works for the federal agency and he says something like, ‘What should I do? Go there and fight the invaders? I can do nothing.’ Year by year, there are just more and more invaders. Nowadays, it’s a nightmare because honestly, there’s not one single week that we have peace.”
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