Movie Details
Original Language:Portuguese
Vendese Pequi
24 minDocumentary
Plot
The Manoki people live in northwestern Mato Grosso Brazil and one of their main economic activities is selling pequi a local fruit on the highways that cross their land During a video workshop the youngsters decided to present aspects of their villages and the process of gathering and selling the pequi fruit to the outside world Incited by the possibility of filming and starring in their own film they looked for the elders in the villages in attempt to find myths about the pequi The making of this film was a process between indigenous and nonindigenous videomakers from the main concept and filming to the editing and postproduction All images were recorded by the Manoki videomakers
