Cidadão Jatobá (1987)

Cidadão Jatobá

1987

Documentary

Synopsis

Two Lawalapiti young men from Alto Xingu learn to build a canoe from the bark of the jatobá tree, a quick and simple technique that leaves the tree still rooted and alive, and that has ceased to be used and is only known by the oldest Lawalapiti men.

Credits

Director

Maria Luiza d'Aboim

Cast

Marcos Terena as Narrator (voice)

Crew

Sílvio Da-Rin (Additional Sound Re-Recordist)

Nélio Ferreira (Assistant Camera)

Maria Elisa Freire (Assistant Editor)

Neli Pereira (Assistant Editor)

John Howard Szerman (Director of Photography)

Maria Luiza d'Aboim (Editor)