The Alok Institute joined the 5th Edition of the PARÁ INTERNATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVAL (FIFEP), held in October 2023 in Belém (PA).
The festival showcases and awards national and international film productions that address contemporary sociocultural issues related to indigenous people, the environment, environmental preservation, social groups, historical processes of anthropological interest about humans and non-humans.
Awards includes:
- Jean Rouch Competitive Exhibition: Best Ethnographic Film in Short, Medium, and Feature-Length categories.
- Divino Tserewahú Competitive Exhibition: Best indigenous productions in Short, Medium, and Feature-Length categories.
- Special Patricia Monte-Mor Award: Best production in popular culture.
In addition to the awards, the festival features cultural attractions, tributes, conferences, talks, workshops and more. Some of the activities include:
- “The Importance of Amazon Cinema Activism and Environmental Preservation” with Jorge Bodanzky.
- “The Experience of Video in the Villages, the Seed that Bore Many Fruits” with Vincent Carelli.
- “Contemporary Indigenous Cinema: Challenges, Achievements, and its Relationship with Environmental Preservation” with Takumã Kuikuro.
- “Filmmaking in the Amazon” with Gustavo Soranz Gonçalves.
The event is a production of Alessandro Campos under the executive production of Pupunha Produções.
About FIFEP
The Pará International Ethnographic Film Festival is an initiative of Visual Anthropology and Image Research Group (PPGSA/UFPA).
FIFEP has a history of building networks and connections, activism, and gathering people (audience, filmmakers, indigenous peoples, riverine communities, students and researchers) from a large part of Brazil and beyond. Its mission revolves around an important and urgent cause: the preservation of Amazon life, both human and non-human and the celebration of human cultural diversity with an intimate connection to the environment.
With the aim of disseminating, promoting, and awarding audiovisual productions that demonstrate recognized technical quality in the fields of Anthropology, Documentary Cinema and Indigenous Cinema, FIFEP also fosters dialogue between producers, filmmakers, researchers and the general public.
Cinema and audiovisual has been embraced by traditional and indigenous populations increasingly, becoming a powerful tool especially when addressing the wonders and challenges of living in the Amazon. When it falls into the hands of serious professional filmmakers, it becomes an effective instrument for advocacy and recognition of this matter.
