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The Film
Directed by Dr. Gerson Damiani, HAUX (2018, 11 min) is a documentary with direct sound transformed into animation. Filmed in the first decade of the 21st century, it features Yawa Banê Kaxinawá, a young leader from the Kaxinawá people in the River Jordan, in the Brazilian State of Acre, who tells the story of a white snake and Duá Busen. It contemplates the creation of a contemporary hero who travels to the world to fight the evils that afflict his people.
Panel Discussion
Siã Huni Kuin Kawinauá was born in the rubber plantations of Fortaleza, in the white sands bank of the Rio Jordan in 1964 as son of Rita Monteiro and the greatest shaman and main leadership of the Huni Kuin, Sueiro Cerqueira Sales. The greatest leader Siã Huni Kuin fought for the demarcation of the Indigenous Land Kaxinauá of River Jordan and later for the creation of the cooperative responsible for the organization, production and trade of rubber from his territory. Since 2014 he has been traveling around Europe to disseminate knowledge about his people’s culture.
Leopardo Yawa Bane Huni Kaxinawá was born in the Belo Monte Village, Reserve Kaxinawá of River Jordan, in Acre. He is the son of the general shaman Siã Huni Kuin Kawinauá and Maria Nazeli Maspã. He started drinking Nixi Pãe (ayahuasca) when he was eight years of age, and since then he has been learning from the shaman and other regional leaders. In 2003, he moved to São Paulo, Brazil, to learn the Portuguese language, informatics, and secondary school. He is the official ambassador of the Huni-Kui people from the River Jordan in São Paulo.
Dr Gerson Damiani (University of São Paulo – USP) has been working with the Kaxinawá people for over a decade. He is the film director and producer, creator of the D&D films and also the Executive Director & Scientific Coordinator for the Global Center for Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Centre at USP.
Dr. Grace Iara Souza (SOAS – Development Studies) teaches and convenes the MSc Environment, Politics and Development at SOAS while also researching on Participatory approaches to natural resource conservation in the Brazilian Amazon, as part of a joint research project between the LSE and the State University of Amazonas (UEA). She is a specialist in political ecologies of conservation and development of the Brazilian Amazon.
Dr. Vinícius Mariano de Carvalho (King’s Brazil Institute) is a lecturer in the King’s Brazil Institute and King’s War Studies. He has a plural academic background and personal trajectory, with a wide understanding of Brazil from diverse fields including Literature, Culture, History, Religion, Society, Defence studies and Politics.