Presentation
We will host a screening of the films Já me Transformei em Imagem (Brasil, 2008) by Zezinho Yube, Children of the Jaguar (Ecuador, 2013) by Eriberto Gualinga, and Tejiendo las Redes del Agua (Colombia, 2011), by Rafael Enrique Álvarez, followed by a discussion of the current situation of Indigenous struggles against extractivism in the Amazon and the Andes, as well as of the parallels between the struggles in these territories and in Portugal.
I Have Already Become an Image (32 min, 2008)
Screenplay: Zezinho Yube
Photography: Mari Corrêa, Tadeu Siã, Vincent Carelli and Zezinho Yube
Montage: Zezinho Yube and Ernesto Ignacio de Carvalho
Production: Vídeo nas Aldeias
Children of the Jaguar (28 min, 2012)
Screenplay: Eriberto Gualinga and Amnesty International
Photography: Eriberto Gualinga, Rosie Khun, Pavel Quevedo, Sergio Sojo Granados and Sergio Sojo Álvarez
Sound: Eriberto Gualinga, Rosie Khun, Pavel Quevedo, Sergio Sojo Granados and Sergio Sojo Álvarez
Production: Eriberto Gualinga, Mariano Machain, David Whitbourn
Tejiendo las Redes del Agua (12 min, 2011)
Edition: Rafael Enrique Álvarez Domenech
Camera: Rafael Enrique Álvarez Domenech
Screenplay: Danilo Urrea
Soundbytes: Cumbia Bass Beats
Production: Censat Agua Viva – Amigos de la Tierra
Photography: Gert Steensens- Esperanza Próxima
Illustration: Angie Vanessita
Sound in off: Olmedo Tapias
The three films are in Portuguese and Spanish with English subtitles. The debate will be in English with whisper translation in Portuguese/Spanish for those who need it.
The event is part of the ParaDocma – Viver melhor [a cidade], é preciso! (4th edition) 2021/2022, and of the CES Summer School “The Pluriverse of Eco-Social Justice”, with the support of the research project ECO – “Animals and Plants in Cultural Productions about the Amazon River Basin”.
Program
- Introduction to the session (10 min) by Patrícia Vieira (CES)
- Film Screening (1 hour) Já me Transformei em Imagem (32 min) and Children of the Jaguar (28 min)
- Comments (20 min) by Ruth Arias, Carla Gomes and Tatiana Roa Avendaño
- Public debate (30 min) moderated by Paola Minoia
July 11, 2022, 5:30pm
Casa do Cinema de Coimbra
Bio Notes
Patrícia Vieira is Senior Researcher at CES. Dr. Vieira’s research focuses on Latin American and Iberian Literature and Cinema, Environmental Humanities and Ecocriticism, Post-Colonial Studies and Literary Theory. She has a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University. She is a full professor at Georgetown University.
Ruth Arias-Gutiérrez is a militant woman, Andean- Amazonian, worker for biodiversity, equity and the exercise of rights and responsibilities, and Professor of Environmental Sciences at the Universidad Estatal Amazónica in Puyo, Ecuador. She has participated as a member of the environmental management network of the Ecuadorian Amazon with indigenous knowledge; the Earth of the Future International Network; the working group of indigenous peoples of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies – ACELAC; and Latin American Studies Association -LASA: She is also part of the COST Action Decolonizing Development.
Carla Gomes is part of the Associação Unidos Covas do Barroso, a small village under threat of a massive Lithium mining project. I was born and raised there and, even though I don’t live there anymore, I still return frequently. I’m a big data analyst by trade, a feminist by necessity, and a volunteer in refugee integration by choice.
Paola Minoia is an Associate Professor at the Universities of Turin and Helsinki. Her interests intersect the fields of political ecology, human geography and global development studies with a focus on territoriality, state- and minoritized groups relations, socio-environmental justice, eco-cultural knowledges and the pluriverse. She is involved in the project Ecocultural pluralism in the Ecuadorian Amazonia (funded by the Academy of Finland) and the EU/COST Network Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching and Practice.
Tatiana Roa Avendaño is an environmentalist, educator and researcher of Censat Agua Viva- Colombia. She is a PhD candidate in political ecology at the Center for Latin American Research and Documentation (CEDLA) – University of Amsterdam. She has written numerous articles and books on extractivism, water justice and energy sovereignty. As an activist she is part of Oilwatch, the Alianza Libre de Fracking and Mesa Social Minero Energética. She has also converged with diverse research groups such as Alianza por la Justicia Hídrica, and the CLACSO Working Groups “Ecología Política Abya-Yala”, and “Territorialidades en Disputa y R-existencia”