Ava Kuña, Aty Kuña: Indigenous Woman, Political Woman

 

 

 

Brazil

25′13, 2021

 

DIRECTED BY

Julia Zulian, Fabiane Medina, Guilherme Sai

PRODUCED BY

Julia Zulian

SCRIPTWRITER

Fabiane Medina
CINEMATOGRAPHER

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EDITED BY

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Ava Kuña, Aty Kuña: Indigenous Woman, Political Woman is a poetic approach to indigenous Brazilian women's political resilience. A portrait of the Kuñangue Aty Guasu, an assembly of Guarani Kaiowá women, the short documentary mixes the impressions of a white woman with an originary woman's explanations about this meeting.

 


Fabiane Medina is a Guarani indigenous woman and Ph.D. in Political Science. She works in the development of content, technical documents, and creative materials addressing the intersection of gender and ethnicity within the fields of art, culture, education, and entertainment. As a screenwriter, producer, and researcher, she is engaged in socially relevant and impactful film projects. Her short documentary Ava Kuña, Aty Kuña: Indigenous Woman, Political Woman received more than 30 awards at film festivals and was officially selected for screening on TV Bahia, in film clubs, and in national and international cinemas, including Numax (Spain) and Beldocs (Belgrade, Serbia). She is currently the producer of the feature-length documentary Yvoty Mbarete: Resistance and Ancestrality for an Indigenous Feminism, now in post-production. She also worked as a script assistant on the fiction feature film White Vultures, a narrative of action and suspense guided by Indigenous characters that delicately explores gender, ethnicity, and colonization from a contemporary perspective.