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Renan Suya Kokoyamaratxi

Brazil

Kokoyamaratxi Renan Suya is a photographer, filmmaker and motion graphic maker from the Kisedjê people (Mato Grosso, Brazil). In 2008, he took part in the audiovisual workshop held by Vídeo nas Aldeias in partnership with Kisedje Indigenous Association (Associação Indígena Kisedje, AIK). In 2021, he completed the communication course Guerreir@s Digitais, promoted by indigenous organizations from three states of Brazilian Amazon.

“What motivates me is giving voice and visibility to our leaders.”

Related Films

  • Honã A Origem do Povo Khisetje

    A mother who killed all her daughters-in-law. A son who fell in love with a woman from the stars. Kuiussi Suya, guardian of his nation's memory, tells the sacred origin story of the Khisetje people. Filmed entirely in the Khikatxi Village, inside Brazil's Wawi Indigenous Territory. A film by AIK Produções, with support from If Not Us Then Who.

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  • Amu Adji Ty Moving Village

    This film shows the Khisetje people moving from their village to a more distant place because of the soya plantation and its poison that threatens their lives, their plants, and their projects like rivers, so the Khisetje people got together and decided to open a new village to the interior of the forest fleeing from the poison (agrochemical).

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