A hit at the past edition of the Margaret Mead Film Festival, Antônio & Piti directed by Vincent Carelli and Wewito Piyãko, and produced by the acclaimed collective Vídeo nas Aldeias is an Amazonian story of a rebel love that breaks the moral and cultural boundaries of the time, told by Dona Piti, daughter of Chico Coló, a “rubber soldier”, and by Antonio, an Ashaninka from Peru.
Thirty years ago, a rubber company enslaved a group of Asháninka people, manipulating them into tapping the trees in the lush borderland between Peru and Brazil. The company was expelled by a coalition of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, led by one mixed race couple. Now the adult children of this marriage combat political corruption and ongoing environmental disaster.
ANTONIO & PITI
A film by Vincent Carelli and Wewito Piyãko
(Brazil, 2019, 78 min. )
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