FESTIVAL PREMIERE
Hosts for half a century
Director: Typju Mỹky, André Tupxi Lopes
The film presents the perspective of our Mỹky people on 50 years of contact with the non-indigenous population. We portray our experiences and movements in the territory, such as collecting tucum and bacava, going to the city of Brasnorte to shop, accessing services and participating in local politics. Young Typju Mỹky guides us along with the elders, who reflect on our way of life and the changes experienced by our people in the last half century.
The stories about the past and the archival images help us understand life before the arrival of the Kewa, the non-indigenous people, and the profound transformations they brought with them. Finally, the time has come to tell our own version of history.
CAST & CREDITS
Director
Typju Mỹky, André Tupxi Lopes
Producer
Malu Vieira
Writer
Lopes
DIRECTORS BIO
Typju Mỹky is a Pedagogy student in the intercultural degree course at UNEMAT/FAINDI in Barra do Bugres and lives in the Japuíra village, in Brasnorte (MT). He began working in audiovisual production in 2015, through video workshops. In addition, he has always accompanied and organized internal village work, coordinating cultural festivals, such as the headball game.
He made the first record of this festival in his documentary, Ãjãí: the headball game of the Mỹky and Manoki (2019), which received awards and participated in national and international festivals. He also directed the documentaries Comunidade Mỹky contra a Covid-19 (2020) and Ini Myky manãnu panãtã – Construindo a casa myky (2020).
For his audiovisual works, in 2019 he received the Ana Primavesi trophy at the International Agroecological Film Festival – FICAECO. He has been a member of the Ijã Mytyli Cine Collective of Manoki and Mỹky indigenous people since its foundation and today works to train new indigenous filmmakers with video workshops in other peoples’ villages.
André Tupxi Lopes is an anthropologist and filmmaker, with an awarded PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of São Paulo (Best Innovation Thesis of 2024), and a research internship at New York University. He is a founding member of Ijã Mytyli Cine Collective of Manoki and Mỹky indigenous people, with whom he has been working since 2008.
He participated in the training of indigenous filmmakers in seven different peoples in Brazil, with which he directed and produced collaborative documentaries in the last decade. Among some of his award-winning works, his film “New York, just another city” won the Marsh Short Film Prize in 2021, for best short documentary, at the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) Film Festival.
