WHO WE ARE?
We are a group of indigenous and non-indigenous activists, researchers, jurists, teachers, journalists and filmmakers who are dedicated to defending territories and disseminating ancestral knowledge. Through direct actions such as legal advice, communication advice, open source investigations; and knowledge sharing, with cinema, communication and territorial monitoring workshops, our multidisciplinary team encourages the self-determination of peoples and the self-management of their territories . their own premises can combat the illegal extractivism that ravages their territories.
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WHAT WE DO?
OUR MISSION is to serve as a bridge between the city and the forest; between ancestral knowledge and contemporary techniques of territorial protection. In the city, we encourage the dissemination of language, science, medicine, cosmology and ancestral musicality, through the Aldeia Marakanã Pluriétnica University and the Cauiré Sociocultural and Environmental Ethnoknowledge Center.
In the forest, we provide logistical support to indigenous and riverside communities plagued by ethno-environmental problems, such as illegal fishing for fish and turtles, illegal hunting, illegal mining, land grabbing, grain monoculture and the construction of ports and dams.
On our four work fronts, a multidisciplinary team made up of journalists, jurists, researchers and filmmakers, provides assistance to the urgent demands of these communities and shares knowledge so that leaders can self-determine in their territories and join the Biguá Project network.
TEAM
PATRICK GRANJA: filmmaker and journalist with more than 500 published reports, author of the book Cadê o Amarildo? (Revan, 2016), directed films in the Amazon about illegal mining, illegal fishing, agribusiness, among others.
MAYRA GUAJAJARA: indigenous producer and filmmaker, she is one of the leaders of Aldeia Marakanã, the only indigenous village in the city of Rio de Janeiro. She participates in communication and film workshops with indigenous people from the city.
JULIANA GUAJAJARA: Lawyer and indigenous leader, she has worked on several cases of forced eviction from indigenous villages, arbitrary arrest of indigenous people and other human rights violations in the city and countryside.
OCTÁVIO FERRAZ: Lawyer, law professor and researcher at the Transnational Law Institute at Kings College London, he is the leader of the research related to our project, entitled The Laws of Our Sustainable Future .
ARÃO DA PROVIDÊNCIA: A lawyer for the Guajajara ethnic group, he has over 40 years of experience defending indigenous rights. He is a lawyer in the defense processes of the Mearim River, in Maranhão, and the Marakanã Village, in Rio de Janeiro.
