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Quentura

Too hot! The spawning fish do not come at the right time and the pepper plants end up dying in this heat. "This is a very different weather that not even the spirits can understand." From their gardens, homes, and backyards, the indigenous women of the Amazon involve us in their vast universe of knowledge while they observe the impacts of climate change in their ways of life.

  • Mari Corrêa
    Director
  • Patrícia Zuppi, Mari Corrêa, Luís Donisete Benzi Grupioni
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Quentura
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    36 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 31, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    Brazil
  • Country of Filming:
    Brazil
  • Language:
    Portuguese
  • Shooting Format:
    full HD
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • Instituto Catitu
    Country: Brazil
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Mari Corrêa

Mari Corrêa is a Brazilian filmmaker and founder of the Instituto Catitu, where she develops projects for the appropriation of audiovisual language as a tool for the cultural valorization of indigenous peoples. She initiated a pioneer audiovisual training project in Brazil for indigenous women to value women's empowerment.
Between 1986 and 2004, she edited documentaries produced by French independent companies and TV channels. In 1987, she made her debut as a documentary director (Paris) and began to form videomakers.
She started her audiovisual work with indigenous communities in 1992 in the Xingu Indigenous Land, in Brazil. She developed a methodology for the training of indigenous filmmakers and produced about 30 indigenous films. In 2008, she also received the award of best editor in the Festival of Gramado, an important festival in Brazil, with the film Corumbiara (2007).
In 2017, she was honored in the 13th Women Worlds Congress – International Seminar Fazendo Gênero in Brasil with a showcase dedicated to her films.

As a filmmaker her main films are:

Pirinop - My First Contact (52 min and 83 min, 2006/2007 - France 2 - Zarafa Films), supported by Jan Vrijman Fund, awarded with eighteen national and international awards

Body and Souls (54 min, 1996 - la 5éme - Les Films du Village), awarded at the Bilan du Film Ethnographique, festival created by Jean Rouch, Musée de l’Homme, Paris.

Voix Indiennes (70 min, 1997), coproduced by TV ARTE & French Connection Productions (France/Germany)

Where did the swallows go? (23 min, 2016), presented at the COP21 in Paris, won the award of the best short film in 4 environmental film festivals.

Heat (36 min, 2018) coproduced by Amazon Cooperation Network and Instituto Catitu

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