BIOGRAPHIE

Edmar Tokorino Yanomami is a Yanomami filmmakers who lives in the village of Watorikɨ, Demini, located in the Brazilian Amazon. He is part of the collective of Yanomami communicators created in 2018 by the Hutukara Yanomami Association with support from the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA). In order to strengthen Hutukara's communication and develop strategies to strengthen traditional knowledge among young people, whose interest in cell phones and non-indigenous technologies is growing, a group of 6 young Yanomami from three regions of the Yanomami Indigenous Territory - Watorikɨ, Missão Catrimani and Novo Demini, to receive audiovisual training. Since 2021, Edmar has participated in several workshops where he produced videos and short films. “Thuë pihi kuuwi - A Woman Thinking” and “Yuri uxëa tima thë - The fishing with timbó” are his first short films in which he directed and edited.

FILMOGRAPHIE

• 2023 Thuë pihi kuuwi - Uma Mulher Pensando Director, Editing
• 2023 Yuri u xëatima thë - A Pesca com Timbó Director, Cast / With, Editing