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Have a Nice Trip Ibantu!: Indians in Brazil, Part One

Vincent Carelli

2000 00:18:00 BrazilEnglishColorMono4:3Video
Tags:
Documentary, Expedition/Travel, Film or Videomaking, Indigenous, Youth/Childhood

Description

Indians In Brazil is an educational series for Brazilian public schools that invites students to experience cultural diversity. Four teenagers are invited to discover a new world and participate in Indian daily life in two different communities. They show their emotions, curiosity and fears, and are surprised by their new friends.

Part One of the series, Good Trip Ibantu! is a highly emotional account of a meeting of the four teenagers with the Krahô Indians. The Krahô receive them warmly and the integration is immediate. The youth take part in the daily life and ceremonies of the village. They are painted and receive Indian names. Their departure is pure emotion.

In Portuguese with English subtitles.

 

About Vincent Carelli

Vincent Carelli is a video producer with the Centro de Trabalho Indigenista in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This group works to bring an understanding of the power of TV technology to indigenous peoples as an empowering tool in their fight to preserve their lands and ways of life. The Video in the Villages Project is an ongoing series that grew out of the frustrating experiences the native Brazilian Waiãpi had with ethnographic film and video shoots in their villages. Initiated in 1985, the project has had a profound effect on native image and self image, inter-tribal relations, and relations with white institutions. Members of several native groups learn about video technology and participate in the production and editing of the videotapes.