Social Impact Narratives
Women's Consulate |
Waurá Ethnic Group
Video on female entrepreneurship, cultural preservation and productive autonomy in Alto Xingu.
Summary: “Women's Consulate | Waurá Ethnic Group” is a project in the portfolio of MEOLI.TV, the narrative and cinema studio of Wesley Meoli, in the Social Impact Narratives track. Video on female entrepreneurship, cultural preservation and productive autonomy in Alto Xingu. Duration: 1 min 36 s. Published: October 3, 2016.
My role on the project
The Women's Consulate (Consulado da Mulher) is the social action of Consul, the Brazilian home appliance brand. My role in this production was as a solo filmmaker, documenting three projects for the Consulado da Mulher award, which recognizes women's entrepreneurship projects in gastronomy and crafts. I had the pleasure of meeting the Waurá people of the Upper Xingu, visiting their village and watching the women harvest, process and bottle pepper for sale and for their own subsistence.
The most interesting part was the journey. I flew from São Paulo to Goiânia and from there took a bus, traveling for 12 hours to the city of Canarana. We then took the road in a pickup truck for another four and a half hours, and Indigenous people came to pick us up by motorboat, a trip of another hour and a half. We reached Porto Marechal Rondon, on the Xingu River, where a truck took us for another 20 minutes to the village of Piyulaga. There I saw the most beautiful starry sky I have ever seen, in a place free of air pollution.