Watch the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/372257134

HAUX, HAUX!

We invite you to an exclusive pre-premier screening of Yupumá, a film set in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest by Verónica Castro with the collaboration of Kawá Huni Kuin, a tribesman from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.

This event is part of a fundraising event for the INVOKE THE POWER OF THE VEGETABLES campaign towards building a school in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest this year. 

Following the film screening, we will have a Q&A with Verónica and Kawá and a musical showcase by musician and tribesman Kawá Huni Kuin and his sister Bimi Huni Kuin.

The donation for this event is £40 (minimum). Please donate to your ability for these precious Indigenous teachings. All proceeds from the event support will go towards building a school in Kawa's village in the rainforest. 

There will also be a lovely selection of beautiful Indigenous crafts, ceremonial jewellery and supplies available to purchase, so please bring extra cash. 

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LINKS TO KAWÁ’S CAMPAIGNS:

*Invoke the power of the vegetables!*

Read more and donate here.

https://gofund.me/7bd56a73

*Invoke the Power of the Vegetables with LAND!*

Read more and donate here.

https://gofund.me/323cbcad

FILM SYNOPSIS

YUPUMÁ  70’| 2024| Brazil

Gazing at the evening sky from his hammock, Kawá Huni Kuin had a vision of skyscrapers. At dawn the cadence of the Amazon rainforest was a bustling city.

While it started as a dream, in this film we follow Kawá Huni Kuin, an apprentice healer, as he prepares to leave his village deep in the Brazilian rainforest to go to Europe for the first time as a messenger for his people and the world.

Yupumá, the indigenous concept, belonging to the Huni Kuin/Kaxinawá people from the lowland Brazilian Amazon, refers to doing something for the first time and its rewards and consequences.

BIOGRAPHIES

Verónica Castro PhD (Mexico city - Mexico)

Filmmaker and visual anthropologist, Castro’s work is characterised by her varied lived experiences. Her feature length film Yupumá (2024) emerged from her experience living with the Huni Kuin indigenous community for 18 months in the Amazon rainforest.

Castro is also part of a filmmaking duo with Helena Inverno in the field of documentary cinema and video art. Their films on themes including migration, masculinity, rituals and religion in Brazil, Portugal and the Middle East have received various awards and have been broadcast and exhibited at international festivals and galleries.

Kawá Huni Kuin (Acre - Brazil)

Kawá Huni Kuin (Kaxinawá) is a healer and musician. In 2018 he was the youngest tribesman to leave his indigenous community in the Brazilian rainforest to travel to Europe and the UK on a mission to bring awareness about his culture to the international community. He has been committed to sharing his traditions to the English speaking community and has been an English language student since 2017. He regularly collaborates with academic researchers as an expert in translation from Hantxa Kuin into Portuguese and now English.

Bimi Huni Kuin (Acre - Brazil)

Bimi Huni Kuin, the youngest of Kawá’s four sisters, is a talented musician. She leads Siri Ika Ainbu, a group of women musicians in her village Nova Fortaleza in the state of Acre, Brazil. This year she will travel from her village to Europe and the UK for the first time with her older and only brother Kawá.