DIVINO TSEREWAHÚ Xavante

Born in 1974, Divino is a Xavante from the Sangradouro village (municipality of General Carneiro, Mato Grosso state). He follows the work initiated by his brother: for years, Divino registered mostly ceremonies for the village public. He participated in the production of “Indian Program” and his first work for a non Xavante audience was “Thank you brother”, Divino narrates his initiation as a video maker. He was the leader of the collective production “Wapté Mnhono, The Xavante´s initiation” which won awards in various festivals. Recently, Divino made alone two more documentaries about Xavante initiation rituals – “Wai´a rini, the power of the dream” (2001) and “Trainee curator” (2003) and in 2002, he did a report about the Makuxi fight for their land demarcation “The struggle goes on!”.