Takumã Kuikoro

Filmmaker, a member of the Kuikuro indigenous village, currently lives in Ipatse, a village in the Xingu Indigenous Park. Takumã is nationally and internationally acknowledged for his films, having been awarded at the following festivals: Gramado Festival, Brasilia Festival of Brazilian Film, Olhar de Cinema, International Film Journey of Bahia, Ethnographic Documentary Film Festival, Presence Autochtone de Terres en Vue Festival. In 2017, he received the honorary award “Fellow of Queen Mary University London” and in 2019, he was the first indigenous juror of the Brasília Festival of Brazilian Film and, in 2021, he was a juror of Latina 10 Ecofalante Film Festival.