Renata Tupinamba

Journalist, poet, screenwriter, curator, and producer. Creator of Originárias Produções. It has been active since 2006 in the dissemination of indigenous cultures through projects and ethnocommunication. She was co-founder of Rádio Yandê, the first Brazilian indigenous web radio. Creator of the Originárias Podcast. She collaborates with the transmedia Indigenous Visibility. She was curator of the Natura Musical Notice (2021), the Second Indigenous Ethnomydia Exhibition (2021), Listen to the IMS-RJ Festival (2021), the Coalkan Indigenous Slam (2021), held by FLUP.

Magda Pucci

Musician (arranger, composer and singer) and independent researcher of world music and Brazilian indigenous cultures. Graduated in Music from USP, Master in Anthropology from PUC-SP and PhD in Artistic Research from the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. She is the musical director and founder of Mawaca, a music group based in São Paulo, which researches and performs music in more than 20 languages, having received some awards in the field of music. She worked on musical projects in collaboration with Brazilian indigenous communities such as Kayapó, Guarani Kaiowá, Huni-Kuin, Paiter Suruí and others, in addition to social projects with children and refugees. He has published articles in the magazines Música Popular, Vibrant, ABEM, among others. Magda Pucci’s experience with the indigenous theme deepened when she completed her master’s degree in Anthropology, when she developed research on the oral art of Paiter Suruí from Rondônia. Since 2005, it has been developing projects for the dissemination of indigenous cultures since the publication of books as well as shows and exchanges between indigenous and non-indigenous people, such as the CD and DVD Rupestres Sonoros — The Song of the Forest Peoples, with recreations of music by the Kayapó, Paiter-Suruí, Ikolen-Gavião, Tupari, Huni- Kuin among others. In 2011, he held musical exchanges in the Amazon with Mawaca with musicians Ikolen-Gavião, Paiter Suruí, Kambeba, Huni Kuin, Karitiana and Bayaroá Community. In 2019, Mekaron performed the image of the soul — a meeting between Mawaca and the Kayapó.

This documentary shows the songs that echo the Guajajara Tentehar culture in the Araribóia Indigenous Territory, a region renowned for being the territory of valiant singers. They are generations that perpetuate ancestral songs, cheering up their Mayra in the rituals of Moqueado (Wyra’o haw), Allowances and Honey Festivals (Zemuishi o haw). In the last decade, the Guajajara people lost their greatest singers, the Tumui Vicente from the Araribóia village, Chicão da Lagoa Comprida and Abrahão do Juçaral. Singers considered great teachers who passed on to their disciples the knowledge of tradition. The main representatives of this new generation of singers were interviewed for this documentary. Also noteworthy is the initiative of the indigenous leaders who created the Tetehar Tukán Knowledge Center, to be another space for the youth to keep their singing alive and to make the sound of the Maracá that carry the voice of the spirits heard.

Direction: Diego Janatã and Djuena Tikuna
Year: 2021
Singers/Testimonials:
Davi Guajajara
Milton Guajajara
Zé Maria Guajajara
Fabiane Guajajara
Maria Santana Guajajara
Silvio Santana Guajajara

The Kanela Ramkokamekrá are part of the immense Timbira family, to which other peoples are also recognized, including the Krikati in Maranhão, the Kraho in Tocantins and the Kykatejê in Pará. The songs presented for this documentary are a small sample of the vast musical repertoire celebrated in the festive ceremonies entitled Amjkin, of which the Pepka hác ritual for the appointment of the Timbira leaders stand out; the Tepyarkwá, the great Fish Festival that brings together many guests; and the Kokrit, the festival of masks. The colors and sounds stand out in the landscape of the Cerrado of Maranhão. The controversial red clay road, which tears through the Kanela Indigenous Territory, opens the way for the farms of the region, and also takes us to the central courtyard of the Escalvado village, still in a circular shape, a characteristic common to these peoples, and it is from there that the Ramkokamekra songs echo at dawn. Director: Diego Janatã and Djuena Tikuna Year: 2021 Singers/Testimonials: Marinaldo Kenikun Kanela Justino Keniavile Kanela Osmar Kalohkle Kanela Suely Konikrê Kanela

Residents of the Pigs Indigenous Territory, the Kanela Apaniekra have their most important artistic expressions in music and dances accompanied by songs.

With a variable background and led by Olímpio Tute Kanela, the choir of singers performs both at festivals and rituals organized in the village and in political demonstrations throughout Brazil, demonstrating its vast cultural richness.