April 2008
 Zezinho
Yube (Hunikui) is from Mucuripe village on the Tarauacá
River, in the Praia do Carapanã indigenous territory in
the state of Acre. He is an environmental agriculture agent, accredited
by the indigenous commission of Acre, and the coordinator of the
Brazilian Ministry of Culture's Point of Culture program at Vídeo
nas Aldeias. He has taken part in three Vídeo nas Aldeias
workshops, and one by Revelando os Brasis, where he made
his first two films: Xina Bena/New Era and Manã
Bai/My Father´s Story. He is currently finishing a film
about the Katxanawa ceremony and is developing one about his father's
research on Hunikui drawings.
“The people in my community really like watching videos
from other places; I always say it is like traveling but without
having to leave your house...they don’t always have the opportunity
that we do to travel and see other cultures. I would love to bring
all these videos to my community and show them...It would be important
to show them the different realities that are in our world, what
is going on in the indigenous world.”
Screened by NMAI
Image credit: Zezinho
Yube - courtesy of Vídeo nas Aldeias; Zezinho Yube - photograph
by Tim Warner
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