Jamille Pinheiro Dias Brazil Canada Knowledge Exchange
Channel: centregcs
Date: 21/05/2014

Graduate Program in Linguistic and Literary Studies in English
Department of Modern Languages
University of São Paulo
TRANSLATING INDIGENEITY THROUGH INDIGENOUS CINEMA IN BRAZIL AND CANADA
This project hopes to contribute to the debate on the possibilities and challenges of translating indigeneity through indigenous cinema within and between Brazil and Canada. It discusses whether specific indigenous-focused contemporary films produced in Brazil -- as they reach a wider audience through social media, the press and film festivals -- may help expand the autonomy of different indigenous individuals and communities. Additionally, it asks to what extent these films enable viewers to look critically at the ways in which indigenous peoples are portrayed in mainstream media and discussed in the classroom -- bearing in mind that the teaching of indigenous history and culture was made compulsory in Brazil by Law 11.645/2008.