The Territory
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First Peoples of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fight landgrabs and illegal logging in this stirring World Cinema Documentary Audience Award winner from Sundance 2022.
The motherland of the Uru-eu-wau-wau people is increasingly under threat. President Bolsonaro’s 2018 election has only escalated the problem. Two young men, Bitaté and Ari, along with their environmental activist mentor Neidinha, lead the campaign to save their environment and, ultimately, their community. When a group of impoverished farmers establishes a homestead by brazenly clear-cutting the ‘protected' forest, the Indigenous community sets up a media team, using cameras to record the deforestation and send their SOS to the world. The farmers use more brutal tactics. Director and cinematographer Alex Pritz made this exceptional award-winning documentary in close collaboration with the Uru-eu-wau-wau people.Screens with Nalujuk Night.
Shortlisted for the Sustainable Future Award. - Program Strand
- International Documentaries
- Year
- 2022
- Classification
- Unclassified 15+
- Country
- Brazil, Denmark, USA
- Language
- In Portuguese and Tupi-Kawahiva with English subtitles
- Director
- Alex Pritz
- Producer
- Will N. Miller, Sigrid Dyekjær, Lizzie Gillett, Darren Aronofsky
- Cinematographer
- Alex Pritz, Tangae Uru-eu-wau-wau
- Editor
- Carlos Rojas Felice
- Premiere
- Australian Premiere
- Genre
- First Nations, Documentary, Environmental, Central & South America, Human Rights, Politics & Economics
- Company Credits
- Australian Distributor: AHI Films
