Timpá: um convite à escuta de indígenas jornalistas da Amazônia legal

Abstract

The documentary "Timpá: an invitation to listen to Legal Amazon indigenous journalists" is a product developed as an Experimental Project for the End of Course Work in the Journalism course at the Universidade Federal do Pampa, Unipampa (Federal University of Pampa). As a guiding theme, this work intends to debate the way indigenous people are represented in Brazilian reference journalism from the point of view of the original peoples themselves, aiming to discuss what needs to be done to change the way they are treated by colonizing media. According to the filmmaker and film critic Bill Nichols (2009), the expository audiovisual assumes argumentation as the anchor of the production. Based on Nichols' idea, here we punctuate violence and its types — whether veiled or not — that the native peoples suffer with the representation produced in the Brazilian reference journalism. The methodology applied is based on the work of Sérgio Puccini (2009), who structures the process into three stages: pre-production, production, and post-production. Based on Bill Nichols, we understand that our documentary is of the expository kind as it proposes to investigate: How does the reference journalism impose and reproduce prejudiced representations about indigenous people? Among the methodological procedures, we also used bibliographical research in several areas of studies about native peoples; the analysis of national and regional reference media outlets in order to identify the colonizing discourse traits; as well as documentary research to be used in the construction of the product. The result is a 33-minute documentary that presents the point of view of the indigenous journalists Ariene Sussui, from the Wapichana people, Tarisson Nawa, from the Nawa people, and Andreza Andrade, from the Baré people.