Indigenous communities use cinema to redeem culture and traditions (fwd link)

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Indigenous communities use cinema to redeem culture and traditions
December 2, 2007 - 07:52 pm Delcio Rocha
http://www.ambienteemfoco.com.br/?p=6855

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Note: The above article is written in Portuguese.  It gives a brief glimpse into
a unique kind of ethnographic filmmaking done in the first person by indigenous
Kuikuro of Brazil.  You can learn more about this project--Video in the
Villages--at the following link:

Video in the Villages collection
http://www.der.org/films/vitv-collection.html

It also appeared as an article:

The Video in the Villages Project: Videomaking with and by Brazilian Indians
Patricia Aufderheide
Visual Anthropology Review
Fall 1995, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 83-93