Guarani Mbya - Nomads of the Atlantic Rainforest

Marcia/Norbert Gomes deOliveira Suchanek
Brazil, short, 2006
21 mins. (MiniDV)
(Portuguese)

The indigenous people of the Guarani Mbya live for hundreds and thousands of years in the region of the Atlantic Rainforest of South America, the region from North Argentine, Paraguay, Uruguay to the Northeast of Brazil. In Southeast Brazil the Brazilian Government has built 2 Nuclear Power Plants on the traditional Land of the Guarani. Our Film shows the live of one of the Guarani villages close to the Nuclear Plant. It focuses on an interview with the Chief of the Guarani Village Sapukai-Bracui - which was in fact a speech to the first Indigenous World Uranium Summit at the Navajo Nation, Nov./Dec. 2006.