Corumbiara (film)

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Corumbiara
Directed by Vincent Carelli (pt)
Distributed byVídeo nas Aldeias [1]
Release date
29 March 2009
Running time
117 minutes
CountryBrazil
LanguagePortuguese

Corumbiara (English: Corumbiara: They Shoot Indians, Don't They?) is a 2009 Brazilian documentary film, directed by Vincent Carelli (pt). The film won three awards at 37th Gramado Film Festival including Best Picture. [2]

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A then-50-something man, living alone in the Amazon, for 22 years, after the last of his tribe, a group of six members, were murdered by farmers in 1995, was photographed by a filmmaker [3] who accompanied FUNAI on a monitoring trip and is shown very briefly in this documentary. [4] Monte Reel wrote The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon about him. [5] [6] [7]

Awards

Gramado Film Festival [8]

  1. Best Picture
  2. Best Direction
  3. Best Film Editing

14th São Paulo International Documentary Festival

  1. Honorable Mention

IV São Paulo Latin American Film Festival

  1. Best Picture (Popular Jury)

Montreal First Peoples' Festival

  1. Best Documentary

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References

  1. "Corumbiara: They Shoot Indians, Don´t They?". International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam . Retrieved August 2, 2019.
  2. "Cine Nacional: Corumbiara". TV Brasil. April 20, 2014. Retrieved August 2, 2019.
  3. Survival International (2009-12-03). "Video footage of The Last of his Tribe" . Retrieved 26 April 2022 via YouTube. A clip from Vincent Carrelli's film Corumbiara. It is the only known footage of the 'Man of the Hole', the last survivor of an uncontacted Amazon tribe.
  4. Baker, Vicky (20 July 2018). "Last survivor: The story of the 'world's loneliest man'". BBC News . Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  5. Reel, Monte (2010). The last of the tribe : the epic quest to save a lone man in the Amazon (1 ed.). New York: Scribner. ISBN   9781416594758.
  6. "'The Last of the Tribe,' by Monte Reel". SFGate. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  7. Siegel, Tatiana (2010-07-14). "Doug Liman finds 'Epic Quest'". Variety. Retrieved 2018-04-01.
  8. ""Corumbiara", vencedor do Festival de Gramado: Um filme político". vermelho.org.br/. August 18, 2009. Retrieved August 2, 2019.