ACTIVITiES

Vídeo nas Aldeias provides technical and financial support to enable the emerging indigenous audiovisual production and its diffusion amongst indigenous peoples, as well as in the national and international media circuit.

The main activities of the project are formation, production and diffusion.

Vídeo nas Aldeias’ priority is to offer a wuality formation, with a continuous and in-depth training, through one month long capacitation workshops in indigenous villages. The formation is given in four steps: script, filming, critical analysis of the recorded material, and editing. The workshop’s interactive dynamics enables the community to participate in all the stages of this process.

After the workshops, each participant elaborates a project that will be guided and supported by the Vídeo nas Aldeias production center. Production, finalization and distribution of the videos are taken care of in the VNA office (Olinda/Pernambuco State). The office offers the necessary infrastructure for the production of the videos and turns the projects possible, financialy, technicaly and as far as content aspects are concerned.

Vídeo nas Aldeias enables an exchange between indigenous people through the distribution of the produced videos among the communities and indigenous associations in Brazil and abroad. But it also facilitates non-indigenous audiences to the access with the contemporary indigenous reality, through the distribution in the media (on public brazilian TV channels, in Cultural centres, Museums, Universities and National and International Festivals), in decision-making bodies (local, of the states and national), and in the educational system.

AUTHORSHIP AND IMAGE RIGHTS

Video in the Villages establishes contracts for authors’ rights with the filmmakers and image rights with the filmed communities, increasing awareness of indigenous communities to the issue of the use of their image and of their audiovisual works.

The contracts relating to the videos of indigenous authorship assure 35% of the income from distribution to the filmmaker for author’s rights, 35% to the community filmed for filmed image rights and 30% to Video in the Villages that are reverted in capacitation of filmmakers.

REALIZATIONS

In its history, VNA has gathered a collection of over than 5,000 hours of images of 40 indigenous people and produced over 70 videos, half of which by indigenous authors. Spoken in their original languages, all of them have Portuguese subtitles, and most of them also have Spanish and English subtitles. Some already have French and Italian subtitles.

VNA productions have been part of the divulgation of the indigenous reality through public policies:

- 2006: video "Iauaretê, Waterfall of the Jaguars" about the filing for patrimony of Iauaretê’s waterfall as a Sacred Local for the peoples from Rio Negro, in partnership with the National Institute for Artistic and Historical Heritage and the Ministry of Culture.
- 2002: "Agenda 31", dealing with the formation of agents for managing natural resources in the state of Acre (CPI/AC), in partnership with the Ministry of Environment.
- 2000: "Indians in Brazil", series for TV Escola (Education Channel), in partnership with Brazilian Ministry of Education.
- 1998: videos for the AIDS prevention campaign in indigenous areas (for Brazilian Health Ministry).

Vídeo nas Aldeias has also used video as a political and empowerment tool to intervene in several struggle of the indigenous movement:

• On occasion of the first contacts with isolated Indians of the Gleba Corumbiara in the state of Rondônia, when the landowners and even the FUNAI (Brazil National Indian Foundation) refused to recognize their existence of indians in the region, the images produced of the contacts and their diffusion on national TV was decisive for the Federal Justice to order the indians’ protection. 20 years later, Vincent Carelli, Vídeo nas Aldeias founder, finalizes, in 2009, the documentary “Corumbiara” about this search of proofs of the massacre in the region.
• Through the film Pïrinop, My first contact (2007), VNA supports the fight of the Ikpeng Indians for their traditional land on the shores of the Jatobá river, in the Xingu National Park, state of Mato Grosso.
• For the historic struggle for the demarcation of Raposa Serra do Sol, in the state of Roraima, VNA produced 2 videos that were important tools in the campaign.
• By sending images of the massive presence of gold prospectors in the area of the Nambiquara Indians of the Sararé to the World Bank while it was negociating a loan with the government of the state of Mato Grosso, the desintrusion of the area was considered a condition for the liberation of the funds.