A $5,000 grant is awarded to the Brazilian filmmakers Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro Da Cunha for their project The Falling Sky

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The film accompanies the incessant struggle of a Yanomami shaman against illegal mining, deforestation of his forest land, and the xawara epidemics that have decimated his people over the centuries, now updated by the covid-19 pandemic. Transforming the literary and cosmopolitical manifesto by Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, one of the world’s greatest indigenous leaders, and French anthropologist Bruce Albert, over the Yanomami-Indigenous prophecy about the end of the world and humankind, The Falling Sky brings to the screen the beauty of Yanomami cosmology and a fierce criticism about the predatory models that need to come to an end. Davi Kopenawa’s word is therefore not a mere exotic prophecy. It is a diagnosis and a warning – that we all urgently must see and hear.