Aerial view of Amazon Rainforest with the Amazon on one side. The forest has been cut down and turned into grey ponds and mud from numerous illegal gold mining sites.

Genocídio Yanomami de Haximu a Palimiu

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Amazoner Arawak dir.
All day 07/10/2022
Stanley Picker Gallery and Online

Genocídio Yanomami de Haximu a Palimiu (Yanomami Genocide from Haximu to Palimiu) is a film tells the story of the murders of the Yanomami people in Roraima, in the Brazilian Amazon, who were killed by a group of garimpeiros, or gold miners who mine the land illegally.

Images: Francisneude Pinho Souza.

Image Editing: Stephane da Silva Queiroz.

Subtitle Editing: Via Monte Produtora.

Portuguese/English translator: Daniel Lago.

Sound design: Chakal.

Lighting: Francisneude Pinho Souza.

General Direction: Emerson da Silva Rodrigues.

Historical Research: Fabio Gonçalves de Almeida.

Screenplay: Priscilla Cardoso Rodrigues.

ABOUT THE HOST

Amazoner Arawak dir.

Amazoner Arawak (Emerson da Silva Rodrigues) (Amazoner Arawak), 48, is a son of the Wapixana and Makuxi indigenous peoples. He is an artivist, craftsman, indigenous artist, cultural producer, and marchand. He has lived in several indigenous communities in the Brazilian state of Roraima and in the Amazon, is a social scientist, anthropologist, researcher of the Aruak and Karib indigenous peoples in the triple border Brazil-Venezuela-Guyana, and has a master's degree in social anthropology from UFPE. The universe of his art creation is Amazonian indigenous cultures and indigenous cosmologies; he is a militant and social activist for indigenous rights, human rights, indigenous territories, and the environment. He has participated in more than 250 exhibitions, both collective and individual. He acts as an advisor and does consulting (without remuneration) with the immigrant refugees of the Warao indigenous people from Venezuela, sheltered in Roraima. At this moment they are fighting against illegal mining and the invasion of more than 40,000 men in the Yanomami Indigenous Land in Roraima.

PARTNERS

Fábio Gonçalves de Almeida, is a historian and journalist, who specialised in environmental management. He is a popular communicator of Resistir Produções, a popular communication channel organising in the state of Roraima, Brazil. He works as a technical advisor (without remuneration) for the State Association of Recyclable Material Collectors - CataTudo. He is a Federal Public Servant at the National Health Foundation (Funasa), working in the area of environmental health.

Júlio David Magalhães Rodrigues of the Ye'kwana people, is currentlu president of the Wanassedume Ye'kwana Association - SEDUUME, lives in the Auaris region of the Fuduuwaadunnha community on Yanomami Indigenous Land, graduated in Indigenous Territory Management from INSIKIRAN Indigenous Higher Education - UFRR.

Priscilla Cardoso Rodrigues is a professor of Indigenous Peoples' Rights in the Law Course and in the Insikiran Institute of Indigenous Higher Education of the UFRR, develops research and extension activities in the areas of Indigenous Rights and Feminist Theories of Law and coordinates the Observatory of Human Rights and the Space for Discussion and Training in Human Rights of the UFRR. She is an Artivist, cultural producer and art curator, she curates the exhibitions of the indigenous artivists of Roraima.

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